iPRES 2011 – 8th International Conference on Digital Preservation of Digital Objects
Important dates:
15 June 2011 – Workshops proposals due
01 July 2011 – Full and short papers, posters and demonstrations proposals due
22 August 2011 – Panels proposals due
28 August 2011 – Acceptance notification
15 September 2011 – Camera Ready Full and Short Papers
30 September 2011 – Early Registration
1-4 November – Conference – Singapore
From the website:
The National Library Board, Singapore and the Nanyang Technological University are pleased to host the International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES 2011) in Singapore in November 2011. iPRES 2011 will be the eigth in the series of annual international conferences that bring together researchers and practitioners from around the world to explore the latest trends, innovations, policies and practices in preserving our digital heritage.
Digital Preservation and Curation is evolving from a niche activity to an established practice and research field that involves various disciplines and communities. iPRES 2011 will re-emphasise that preserving our scientific and cultural digital heritage requires integration of activities and research across institutional and disciplinary boundaries to adequately address the challenges in digital preservation. iPRES 2011 will further strengthen the link between digital preservation research and practitioners in memory institutions and scientific research data centres.
From the email announcement:
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Domain-specific Challenges (Cultural Heritage, Technical and Scientific Processes and Data, Engineering Models and Simulation, Medical Records, Corporate Processes and Record keeping, Web Archiving, Personal Archiving, e-Procurement, etc.)
- Systems Life-cycle (Requirements, Modeling, Design, Development, Deployment and Maintenance)
- Trusted Repositories and Governance (Risk Analysis, Planning, Audit and Certification, Business Models, Cost Estimation, etc.)
- Case Studies and Best Practices (Processes, Metadata, Systems, Services, Infrastructures, etc.)
- Innovation in Digital Preservation (Novel Challenges and Scenarios, Innovative Approaches)
- Added-value of Digital Preservation (Emerging Exploitation Scenarios and the Long-Tail of Digital Repositories and Archives)
- Training and Education
- Theory of Digital Preservation
I would add to the list:
History of Digital Preservation, In Theory and Practice
See the Getty Cross-walk for a visual overview of the diversity and evolution in the area. If you have the time for a more comprehensive investigation, see the CHIN Guide to Museum Standards.
Change and evolution (to the point of replacement) of what we want to say about digital artifacts is a fact of life. What we would want to say about film footage from the 1960’s is different, but no more or less valid than comments made at the time. And given a few more years, the comments then will be different from the ones we make now.
Not to mention that the systems by which those comments will be preserved, accessed and organized will be different as well.
Some of which will be considered as correct or incorrect by some one.
I suppose that was what first attracted me to topic maps.
Subjects and their characteristics are whatever you think they are and we don’t always (ever?) have to agree.
We can jump over arguments about correctness and you can tell me what you want to say, what you want to say it about and when you see it, how should it look?