[DL] CfP - Workshop on Semantic Digital Archives

[Livia Predoiu]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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International Workshop on ?Semantic Digital Archives - sustainable  
long-term curation perspectives of Cultural Heritage? 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:

The Semantic Digital Archives Workshop aims at promoting and  
discussing sophisticated knowledge representation and knowledge  
management solutions specifically designed for improving Archival  
Information Systems.

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.

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.



TOPICS OF INTEREST:

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:

* 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



SUBMISSION DETAILS:

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers  
related to the aforementioned topics. We invite:
* regular papers (10 to 12 pages)
* short papers (4 to 6 pages)

All submissions are required to be in pdf format. All submissions  
should be anonymous (i.e., no author names/affiliations and obvious  
citations). Long and short paper submissions should be in the  
Springer?s LNCS format.

Submissions are to be made via the submission web site:  
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sda2011

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 TPDL 2011 and SDA  
Workshop registered participant. All papers will be published in  
workshop proceedings, which will be available as a separate  
publication after the Workshop



IMPORTANT DATES:

* Deadline for Submissions: 30 June 2011

* Acceptance Notification: 30. July 2011

* Camera-ready Papers: 20. August 2011



ORGANIZING COMMITTEE & PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

The Organizing Committee members and a preliminary list of Program  
Committee members can be found at:  
http://sda2011.dke-research.de/index.php/committees



FURTHER DETAILS:

http://sda2011.dke-research.de