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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Joy Fraser, Events Manager
UK Office for Library and Information Networking
University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK
Voice: +44 1225 826256 Fax: +44 1225 826838
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/j.v.fraser/
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