-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: DPASSH 2015 Call for Papers | June 25-26, 2015 | Dublin, Ireland Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 10:25:07 +0000 From: Sharon Webb Sharon.Webb@NUIM.IE Reply-To: Sharon Webb Sharon.Webb@NUIM.IE To: TEI-L@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU

Hi all,

We've extended the abstract deadline for DPASSH 2015, and it is now Feb 2, 2015. Please consider submitting - we're interested in your work!

All info at: http://dpassh.dri.ie/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Sharon Webb Sharon.Webb@nuim.ie Date: Thursday, November 13, 2014 12:11 pm Subject: DPASSH 2015 Call for Papers | June 25-26, 2015 | Dublin, Ireland To: TEI-L@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU

Hi all,

This may be of interest to people on the list:

**Call for Papers**

We are pleased to release the Call for Papers for our upcoming

international conference: *Digital Preservation for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities: “Shaping our Legacy: Safeguarding the Social and Cultural Record”.*

Details below and also available here:

http://dpassh.dri.ie/DPASSH-2015-CFP.pdf

Apologies for cross posting but please disseminate widely.

Submission deadline is *26th January 2015*.

Kind Regards,

The DPASSH Organising Committee

*> *

*> Call for Papers: DPASSH 2015***

*> The 1st Annual conference on **Digital Preservation for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities: **“Shaping our Legacy: Safeguarding the Social and Cultural Record” **hosted by the Digital Repository of Ireland, **Dublin, Ireland*

*> 25-26th June 2015*

On the last day of June of 1922, the western block of Dublin’s Four

Courts exploded, engulfing the Irish Public Record Office in flames. As smoke billowed from the eighteenth-century construction and the fire brigade struggled to bring the flames under control, debris fell onto the surrounding Dublin streets, and the Irish Times reported that a priceless library was left in ashes. The fire, caused by the outbreak of the Irish Civil War, hit at the heart of government records, destroying hundreds of years of Irish history that had been housed centrally since the 18th century. A few days after the fire, the Provisional Government issued a notice asking citizens to return to public custody any and all of the burned fragments of the public record that had “blown to other districts.”

In the current digital age, our social and cultural record is also

at risk, but its degradation occurs over time. Instead of burning rapidly, digital records are threatened by a slow-burning fire that can go undetected as a result of insufficient data management practices. Additionally, the preservation of our digital social and cultural heritage is subject to domain- and community-specific requirements. These issues demand that we reflect critically on the purpose of digital preservation, and ask fundamental questions about how requirements should shape our practices. Similar to the public appeal in 1922, we are looking for public, academic and industry engagement on the issue of digital preservation, to help identify the fragments that have been, or are in danger of being lost, as well as to build the digital preservation strategies that will shape and safeguard our public record.

To address the complexities of long-term digital preservation in the

social and cultural realms, we are hosting the first Digital Preservation for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (DPASSH 2015) conference, titled “Shaping our Legacy: Safeguarding our Social and Cultural Record.” The conference will take place on June 25-26, 2015 at Croke Park, in Dublin, Ireland, and will include international keynote speakers, networking, expert panels, peer-reviewed papers, and posters.

Submissions are invited from all sectors and perspectives

(academics, researchers, students, industry, cultural heritage institutions, preservation infrastructures, etc.) for a variety of presentation formats that critically reflect on all areas relating to digital preservation in the humanities and social sciences, arts, and cultural heritage sectors.

Conference themes include but are not limited to:

• Cultural Responsibility & Preservation: critical reflections on

preservation, challenges in choosing what to preserve, digital curation, digital stewardship, archiving processes.

• People & Preservation: stakeholder engagement, community

approaches, partnership building, education & training, knowledge transfer.

• Policy & Preservation: advocacy, national approaches,

sustainability, open access, open data.

• Sharing & Preservation: content curation, contextual information

and metadata, aesthetics of preservation, sharing of research data, user tools, crowdsourcing.

• Technology & Preservation: Technical challenges posed by datasets

in arts/humanities/social sciences, digitisation vs. the born digital record, preservation infrastructures, software and tools.

• Trust & Preservation: TDRs, provenance, authenticity,

certification, security, data protection, copyright, licensing.

*> Important Details:*

• Submission Deadline: 26th January 2015

• Notification of outcome: 30th March 2015

• Full papers due: 25th May 2015

• All abstracts will be peer reviewed, and accepted papers will be

published as conference proceedings.

• All submissions must be made through the conference website:

dpassh.dri.ie

• Abstract Length: Long papers: 400-500 words; Short papers: 200-300

words; Posters: 50-100 words

• Final Paper Word Length: Long papers: 3000-5000; Short papers:

1500-2000

• Questions: Dr. Natalie Harrower, Chair of the Programme Committee:

n.harrower@ria.ie <javascript:main.compose('new', 't=n.harrower@ria.ie')>

Kind regards

Sharon

Dr. Sharon Webb

Knowledge Transfer Manager, DAH

Digital Repository of Ireland,

Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, D. 2.

PH: 00353 1 609 0696