CALL FOR PAPERS & JCDL WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION
Workshop on "Digital Curation & Trusted Repositories: Seeking Success"
To be held - in conjunction with the
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2006) June 11-15, 2006 -
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Preservation of access to digital assets stands as one of the grand
challenges of the early 21st century. A decade of work in digital
preservation and access has resulted in many projects, numerous metadata
and encoding standards, open institutional repository platforms such as
DSpace and Fedora and the OAIS Reference Model. The Research Libraries
Group (RLG) and OCLC have described the attributes and responsibilities of
such trusted repositories, and RLG and the National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA) have drafted an audit checklist for certifying
digital repositories as trustworthy (http://www.rlg.org/en/pdfs/rlgnara-
repositorieschecklist.pdf) . Guidelines, such as those provided by RLG and
NARA, offer technical and managerial attributes for a trusted digital
repository, but will adherence to such a checklist, by itself, ensure a
successful digital repository, especially the institutional repositories
emerging on university campuses today? What are the most promising
approaches for implementing the attributes? What does trust really mean
in the context of a contributor-based repository and will individuals or
organizations contribute to a repository just because they trust that it
will preserve digital assets over time? What incentives and assistance are
needed? What is the role of the archivist vis-ΰ-vis the digital life cycle
and the stewardship of digital assets over time. What, indeed, constitutes
a successful digital repository and how can we ascertain and measure
such success?
This workshop will serve as a forum for discussion as to how the emerging
principles of digital curation, "the active management and appraisal of
data over the life-cycle of scholarly and scientific interest" (Digital
Curation Center, http://www.dcc.ac.uk/about/), can work with technical and
managerial models to produce not only trusted, but successful repositories
that will house rich digital assets over the long-term.
*****Objectives*****
Presentation of digital curation principles.
Exploration of what constitutes success and excellence in digital
curation and digital repository management.
Discussion of how to identify and define criteria for success,
including exploration of a shared lexicon for describing digital
repository attributes.
Examination of strategies for measuring and evaluating success
criteria.
Discussion of next steps, potential collaborations, and needed
research in the application of digital curation to repository development.
*****Who Should Attend*****
Digital repository developers and curators
Digital archivists and electronic records managers
Institutional repository developers
Institutional administrators and policy developers
Digital librarians
Scholars engaged in research intended to benefit the above
Researchers and administrators charged with preserving research
data
*****Workshop Logistics*****
All interested parties are invited to submit a brief (3-4 pages) paper on
any of the following topics:
What constitutes success in a digital repository?
How can we best measure the success of digital repositories?
How is certification of digital repositories related to success?
Beyond meeting certification guidelines, what does it mean to be a
trusted repository and what role does trust play in repository success?
How can the principles and activities of digital curation help
repositories to be successful?
The submitted papers will be assessed for their relevance to the workshop
and a limited number of papers will be selected for presentation. Emailed
submissions in RTF, Microsoft Word, or PDF are welcome. Each position
paper will be refereed and results emailed to authors. Selected papers
will be distributed to attendees at the workshop and mounted as
proceedings on the workshop website. Development of papers into journal
articles will be explored at the workshop. All interested persons are
invited to register for the workshop even if they do not submit a paper
but papers are encouraged to focus discussion and increase participation.
In order to ensure that this workshop will not be cancelled, please submit
your paper and register for the workshop by April 15, 2006.
******Submissions******
Submit papers electronically to Helen Tibbo: [log in to unmask]
*****Important Dates*****
Deadline for paper submissions: April 14, 2006
Notification to authors: May 12, 2006
Final copy of papers: June 2, 2006 Authors should use the ACM SIG
proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html).
*****Organizers/Program Committee*****
Philip Eppard, SUNY-Albany; Christopher Lee, UNC-Chapel Hill; Karen
Markey, Univ. of Michigan; Soo Young Rieh, Univ. of Michigan; Helen Tibbo,
UNC-Chapel Hill; Elizabeth Yakel, Univ. of Michigan.
Hope to see you all in Chapel Hill in June!
-Helen
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