Thursday, May 25, 2006

CFP: 2006 iPRES Conference

CFP: 2006 iPRES Conference
October 8-10, 2006
Ithaca, New York
Deadline: August 15, 2006

URL: http://ipres.library.cornell.edu/

Call for Abstracts URL: http://ipres.library.cornell.edu/CallforAbstracts.html

The Cornell University Library will host the third International Conference on the Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES 2006) to be held October 8-10, 2006 at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY U.S.A.

The theme of this year's iPRES is Words to Deeds: Collaboration in the Realm of Digital Preservation. Following on the successful iPRES 2005 held September 14-16 in Goettingen, Germany, iPRES 2006 Plenary Sessions will explore topics in Preserving Multimedia Objects, e-Journal Preservation, Certification, and National Efforts in Digital Preservation. Concurrent sessions on Tools of the Trade; Selection, Workflow, and Accession; eScience and Digital Preservation; Metadata; Business and organizational issues; and Repositories are tentatively planned. We invite contributions in concurrent session topics by sending a brief abstract to ipres2006@cornell.edu. Deadline for contributed papers is August 15, 2006. The deadline for early registration is September 1, 2006