I last went to an RDMF meeting in Manchester in the autumn of 2010 with a topic of “The economics of Applying and Sustaining Digital Curation”, I have just attended and spoken at RDMF12 “Linking Data and Repositories (and other systems)” and this blog post muses over the changes in this area over the last four years as demonstrated by the content of these two RDMF meetings. They can be generalised in my view as a move from planning to implementation.