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iPres Details

September 2-6th, 2013
Lisbon, Portugal

iPRES, the major international conference on digital preservation, will be held at the Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal, from 2-6 September 2013. The conference invites original contributions addressing a wide range digital preservation challenges.  Papers, posters and demonstrations, panels, and workshops topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Innovation in Digital Preservation: Novel Challenges and Scenarios; Innovative Approaches; Preservation at Scale; Domain-specific Challenges (Cultural Heritage, Technical and Scientific Processes and Data, Engineering Models and Simulation, Medical Records, Corporate Processes and Recordkeeping, Web Archiving, Personal Archiving, e-Procurement, etc.)
  • Systems Life-cycle: Specific Digital Preservation Requirements and Implications in Modeling, Design, Development, Deployment and Maintenance
  • Governance: Risk Analysis; Audit, Trust and Certification, Trusted Repositories; Information/Data Quality
  • Business Models and Added-value of Digital Preservation: Benefits Analysis, Emerging Exploitation Scenarios, Long-Tail of Digital Preservation
  • Theory of Digital Preservation: Interdisciplinary Modeling, Representation Concepts, Incentive Structures
  • Case Studies and Best Practices: Processes, Metadata, Systems, Services, Infrastructures
  • Training and Education

DC-2013 Details

DC-2013 will explore questions regarding the persistence, maintenance, and preservation of metadata and descriptive vocabularies. The need for stable representations and descriptions spans all sectors including cultural heritage and scientific data, eGovernment, finance and commerce. Thus, the maintenance and management of metadata is essential to address the long term availability of information of legal, cultural and economic value.

On the web, data—and especially descriptive vocabularies—can change or vanish from one moment to the next. Nonetheless, the web increasingly forms the ecosystem for our vocabularies and our data.DC-2013 will bring together in Lisbon the community of metadata scholars and practitioners to engage in the exchange of knowledge and best practices in developing a sustainable metadata ecosystem.

DC-2013 will be collocated and run simultaneously with iPRES 2013 providing a rich environment for synergistic exploration of issues common to both communities.

KEY DATES
Submission Deadline: 29 March 2013
Author Notification: 7 June 2013
Final Copy: 5 July 2013

Course Format: On Site
Address: Instituto Superior Técnico Avenida Rovisco Pais, 1 — 1049-001 Lisboa
 
Duration: 5 Days
Audience Category: Innovators and Educators in Digital Preservation and users of Dublin Core Metadata
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Cost Range: TBD
Provider: Tecnico Lisboa
Sponsored by: DCMI and IST

iPRES Website (external link)

Dublin Core Website (external link)

This information is provided as a convenience for informational purposes only; it does not constitute an endorsement by the Library of Congress.