The Data Compression Conference (DCC) is an international forum for current work concerning data compression and related applications. The conference addresses not only compression methods for specific types of data (text, images, video, audio, medical and scientific data, graphics, web content, etc.), but also the use of techniques from information theory and data compression in networking, communications, and storage applications involving large datasets (including image and information mining, retrieval, archiving, backup, communications, and human-computer interface). Both theoretical and experimental work is of interest.