The Data Compression Conference (DCC) is an international forum for current work on data compression and related applications. Compression of specific types of data (text, images, video, etc.). Compression in networking, communications, and storage. Transform based compression methods. Applications to bioinformatics. Applications to mobile computing. Applications to information retrieval. Computational issues for compression related applications. Error resilient compression algorithms. Joint source-channel coding. The use of techniques from information theory. Compression related standards.