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Apologies for any duplicates you may receive: 1st Call for Papers The Centre of Excellence for Digital Preservation, C-DAC, India and Alliance for Permanent Access (APA), are pleased to announce the APA International Conference on Digital Preservation and Development of Trusted Digital Repositories to be held at New Delhi, India, during 5-6 February 2014. Conference Website http://www.ndpp.in/APA-DPDTR-2014/ The organizers of this conference invite research papers, case study papers and position papers based on the following thematic areas which have to be submitted before 01 October 2013. Thematic Areas - Digital preservation in various domains such as e-government, scientific and research data, geospatial information, electronic health records, audio and video, media archives, government and cultural archives, corporate data archives, etc. - Domain specific adaptation of Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model - Digital disasters and recovery - Digital forensic for authenticity of information - Technological infrastructure development for trusted digital repositories - Trusted digital repositories in cloud - Digital preservation for legal compliances - The challenges and techniques for maintaining trust in electronic records over long period - Integrating e-record management with e-government - Approaches for long term sustainability of digital repositories - Data mining and repurposing of digital information stored in digital repositories - Long term storage solutions with techniques for optimization and efficacy - Preparing for audit and certification of digital repositories - Design of domain specific digital preservation policy framework - Curriculum design for digital preservation We invite three types of papers - Case studies & work in progress (6 to 8 pages) - Full research papers (max 10 pages) - Position papers (4 to 6 pages) Download paper template with format specifications For submissions to the working conference, the authors must use the LNCS templates and style files available from: http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/CSProceedings_AuthorTools_Word_2003.zip?SGWID=0-0-45-1124637-0 All papers should be in the specified conference publication format and sent as both pdf and MS Word files to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> and [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> by 1st October 2013. Important Dates Last date of paper submission: 01 October 2013 Acceptance notification: 05 November 2013 Conference: 5-6 February 2014 General Conference Chairs Dr. Dinesh Katre, Associate Director & HOD, C-DAC, Pune, India Dr. David Giaretta, Director, Alliance for Permanent Access (APA<http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.org/>) Advisory Committee Dr. Luciana Duranti, Director, InterPARES, University of British Columbia, Canada Prof. John Wood, Secretary General, Association of Commonwealth Universities, UK Dr. Juan Bicarregui, Head of Data Services Division, Scientific Computing Department, STFC - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK Monica Marinucci, Director for Research, Oracle (Europe, Middle East and Africa) S. A. Kumar, Director, R & D in IT Division, Department of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India Renu Budhiraja, Scientist G, National e-Governance Action Plan (NeGP), DeitY, New Delhi, India Dr. Gautam Bose, Deputy Director General, National Informatics Centre, New Delhi, India Dr. Mukul Sinha, Managing Director, Expert Software Consultants Pvt. Ltd, Noida, India Bill LeFurgy, Digital Initiatives Manager, National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress, USA Dr. Reagan W. Moore, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Prof. Matthias Hemmje, Fern Universität Hagen, Germany Dr. Jussi Nuorteva, Director General, The National Archives of Finland Programme Committee Carlo Meghini, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche- Institute of Information Science and Technologies, Italy Dr. Anne Thurston OBE, Director, International Records Management Trust, UK Dr. Peter Doorn, Data Archiving and Networking Services (DANS), Netherlands Abhishek Jee, Director, e-Governance and Green IT, NASSCOM, Bangalore Vakul Sharma, Cyber Law Expert & Advocate, New Delhi, Supreme Court, India Dr. Ramesh Gaur, Head-Librarian, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India Prof. Makhlouf Shabou Basma, University of Geneva, Switzerland Dr. Usha Mujoo Munshi, Librarian, Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi, India Richard Rinehart, Digital Media Director, Bucknell University, USA Dr. Sanjeev Kumar, Deputy Director, National Resource Centre, NIFT, New Delhi, India Pratapanand Jha, Director, Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi, India R. Venkata Kesavan, DGM & Head Times Archives & Knowledge Centre, The Times Group, India Dr Jeremy Leighton John, Curator of eMSS, The British Library, London, UK Barbara Sierman, Digital Preservation Manager, National Library of Netherlands Jason R. Baron, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, USA Dr. Christopher Lee, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, USA T. Hussain, Assistant Director, National Archives of India, New Delhi, India -- Scanned by iCritical.