Members of this list would likely have interesting perspectives to
contribute to this workshop.
On 7/1/11 1:22 PM, "Livia Predoiu" <livia.predoiu(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
>Apologies for cross-posting.
>Please forward to interested parties.
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>Workshop on "Semantic Digital Archives" DEADLINE EXTENDED to *15. July
>2011*
>(see Important Dates below)
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>CALL FOR PAPERS
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>International Workshop on ³Semantic Digital Archives - sustainable
>long-term curation perspectives of Cultural Heritage² to be held as
>part of the 15th International Conference on Theory and Practice of
>Digital Libraries (TPDL).
>29.09.2011 in Berlin
>http://sda2011.dke-research.de
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>OBJECTIVES:
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>The Semantic Digital Archives Workshop aims at promoting and
>discussing sophisticated knowledge representation and knowledge
>management solutions specifically designed for improving Archival
>Information Systems.
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>Over the past couple of decades, digitally created content has come to
>permeate all aspects of our lives and the life cycle of these objects
>is increasingly exclusively digital. Therefore, sustainable long-term
>curation perspectives for our digital cultural heritage are essential.
>Digital content poses many socio-cultural and technological challenges
>which create obstacles to long-term or indefinite preservation.
>Changing technologies and shifting user communities as well as the
>increasing complexity of digital content being enriched with software
>and multimedia attachments are only a few examples. Dealing with these
>challenges is the central theme of the workshop.
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>This full day workshop is an exciting opportunity for collaboration
>and cross-fertilization between the Digital Libraries, the Digital
>Archives and the Semantic Web community. It specifically encourages
>closer dialogue between the technical oriented communities and
>researchers from the (digital) humanities and social sciences as well
>as cultural heritage institutions.
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>TOPICS OF INTEREST:
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>We intend to have an open discussion on topics related to the general
>subject of Semantic Digital Archives. The following list of topics is
>meant as an initial guide.
>Hence, we welcome contributions that focus on, but are not limited to:
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>* ontologies and linked data for digital archives and digital
>libraries, e.g. semantic extensions of common knowledge models of the
>digital archiving and digital libraries domain, e.g. METS, EAD,
>PREMIS, ...
>* ontologies and (semantic) web services implementing the OAIS standard
>* theoretical and practical archiving frameworks extending or
>replacing the OAIS standard
>* logical theories for digital archives
>* implementations and evaluations of digital archives
>* semantic or logical provenance models for digital archives or
>digital libraries
>* information integration/semantic ingest (e.g. from digital libraries)
>* trust for ingest and data security/integrity check for long-term
>storage of archival records
>* semantic search and semantic information retrieval in digital
>archives and digital libraries
>* visualization and exploration of digital content (stored or to be
>stored in a digital archive)
>* semantic extensions of emulation/virtualization methodologies
>tailored for digital archives
>* migration strategies based on semantic (web) technologies
>* semantic long-term storage and hardware organization tailored for AIS
>* (empirical) studies evaluating end-user needs and its evolution as
>well as information seeking behaviour of end-user needs and its
>evolution
>* knowledge evolution
>* web archiving
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>SUBMISSION DETAILS:
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>Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers
>related to the aforementioned topics. We invite:
>* regular papers (8 to 12 pages)
>* short papers (2 to 6 pages)
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>All submissions are required to be in pdf format. Paper submissions
>should be in the Springer¹s LNCS format.
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>Submissions are to be made via the submission web site:
>https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sda2011
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>Submissions will be reviewed by the three members of the Program
>Committee. All papers accepted at the Semantic Digital Archives
>Workshop must be presented during the Workshop by a SDA Workshop
>registered participant. All papers will be published in workshop
>proceedings, which will be available as a separate publication after
>the Workshop
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>IMPORTANT DATES:
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>* Deadline for Submissions: 15. July 2011
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>* Acceptance Notification: 12. August 2011
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>* Camera-ready Papers: 26. August 2011
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>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE & PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
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>The Organizing Committee members and the Program Committee members are
>mentioned at: http://sda2011.dke-research.de/index.php/committees
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>FURTHER DETAILS:
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>http://sda2011.dke-research.de
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