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Call for Papers
Preservation 2000:
An International Conference on the
Preservation and Long Term
Accessibility of Digital Materials
7/8 December** 2000 York England.
**The Research Libraries Group and the Cedars Project will also be
organising a workshop on preservation metadata for the 6th December
to be linked to the conference.
As we enter the new millennium, many organisations and individuals
share concerns about our ability to bring with us the vast array
of digital materials accumulated in libraries, archives, museums
and other cultural and heritage organisations. The Consortium of
University Research Libraries (CURL) in the UK, through the Cedars
project, funded through the JISC eLib programme, has been developing
strategic, methodological and practical guidance for libraries and
archives in best practice for digital preservation. Over the past
2 years, Cedars has been actively promoting awareness about the
importance of digital preservation both amongst university libraries
and archives and amongst the data creating and data supplying
communities upon which they depend.
Preservation 2000 promises to bring together experts and enthusiasts
from a variety of disciplines and organisations to discuss and
debate recent advances in this critical area. This state of the
art conference will make the most of both the interdisciplinary
and international dimensions which are key to facing the challenges
imposed by long term access to digital objects.
The aim of the conference is to facilitate meaningful dialogue between
the wide array of organisations and individuals currently working with
digital archives and preservation. The main goal for the conference
is to share, disseminate and discuss current key issues concerning the
preservation of digital materials.
The conference aims to focus the programme around three main strands:
*Content and selection issues for long term preservation
*Models for digital archives including technical and organisational
issues related to access and management
*Economic and Cost Modelling for digital preservation
We invite submissions in ALL areas of digital archiving and
preservation, including (but not limited to) the following:
*Exemplars for the establishment of digital archives systems and
services
*Management practices commonly required by libraries and
archives in addressing the longevity of digital collections
*Business models for digital archives (e.g. collaborative or
federated repositories)
*Frameworks for the development of digital collection management
policies including selection or materials
*Intellectual property rights: digital preservation issues
*Security, authentication and authenticity in digital archives
*Electronic publishing and digital archives
SUBMISSIONS
Prospective authors are asked to submit an abstract of no more than
500 words describing their paper by NO LATER THAN 30 May. Notification
of acceptance will be made by 30 July. A provisional Programme will
be available by 30 August. Authors are encouraged to submit papers
electronically and, in particular, in postscript (or PDF) format.
The Conference Proceedings will be available on the web.
Abstracts should be submitted to:
Kelly Russell
Cedars Project Manager
University of Leeds
Leeds, LS2 9JT
England, UK Phone: (+44) (0) 113 233 6386 Fax:(+44) (0) 113
2335539
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Kelly Russell
CEDARS Project Manager
Edward Boyle Library phone: (+44) (0)113 233 6386
The University of Leeds fax: (+44) (0)113 233 5539
Leeds LS2 9JT email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.curl.ac.uk/projects/cedars.html
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