CFP: Archiving 2006 (The IS&T Archiving Conference)
Archiving 2006 - May 23-26, 2006 - Ottawa, Canada. The IS&T Archiving Conference provides a unique forum to assemble international experts from industry, government, cultural heritage institutions, universities, and research institutes to discuss the complex and diverse topics related to the theory and practice of archiving personal and institutional collections.
Images, documents, business and personal records, and many other works are increasingly easier to produce and increasingly more difficult to manage for the long term. Archiving items or collections of personal, cultural, financial, and legal value is daunting, particularly when archiving requires maintaining access to information content. Not only must today’s electronic files be protected from obsolescence, but reliable, cost-effective strategies remain a high priority to preserve cultural works accumulated in previous decades and centuries. Archiving solutions will require collaboration among all stakeholders in preservation, working together to scope problems, define research agendas, develop standards, manufacture viable products and services, and advocate for funding, legislation, and policies.
The IS&T Archiving Conference provides a unique forum to assemble international experts from industry, government, cultural heritage institutions, universities, and research institutes to discuss the complex and diverse topics related to the theory and practice of archiving personal and institutional collections.
The Conference seeks to create a shared community of experts dedicated to addressing challenges of archiving; showcase proven theories, practices, systems, and workflows; identify high-velocity technology—or technology that is changing rapidly—and its impact upon information preservation; and prioritize the archiving challenges most in need of research, funding, standards, systems, and technologies. Techniques for producing, acquiring, preserving, indexing, and retrieving images and documents in both digital and human-readable formats are subjects that will be covered in detail. Of particular interest are industry perspectives of obsolescence; business and cost models to sustain materials for the long term; formats for archiving; and solutions for content management, storage, and access.
The conference will include invited focal papers, refereed papers, and a series of tutorials to cover the technical basics of archiving. Special keynote presentations are also planned.
URLS:
Main Conference Page: http://www.imaging.org/conferences/archiving2006/
Call for Papers (Deadline, November 11, 2005):
http://www.imaging.org/conferences/archiving2006/Archiving_%2006_Call.pdf
Proposed Program Topics:
http://www.imaging.org/conferences/archiving2006/topics.cfm
