[Asis-l] First CfP - iPRES2017 workshop - Preservation and Access to Privacy-sensitive Collections

[Unmil Karadkar]

This Call for Proposals is available on the workshop web page at: 
https://saab.ischool.utexas.edu/papc2017

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      Overview

Recent developments in digitization and dissemination technologies 
present the possibility of making archival collections broadly available 
to a global audience. In addition, new collections of born-digital 
documents will be readily available to support a multitude of objectives 
of their diverse, worldwide stakeholders. Demographics such as family 
members, journalists, social services providers, and policy makers can 
all benefit from access to these historical collections.

While these advances are broadly welcomed in most circumstances, some 
archival collections include restricted or privacy-sensitive 
collections. Examples of such privacy-sensitive records include mental 
health institutional records, prison records, records of the Truth and 
reconciliation commissions, Nazi archives, and the Guatemalan national 
police archives. While access to paper documents is protected by 
distance, physical barriers, and varying state and national policies and 
laws, digital access may exacerbate threats to the privacy of 
individuals named in these records. The online availability of such 
records has a potential to stigmatize or embarrass the families or 
descendants of those named in the records when they bear no 
responsibility for the acts or health conditions of the named 
individuals, raising ethical issues in providing broad, open access to 
these records. In some cases, the legal frameworks for digital records 
are substantially less clear than those for physical records.


      Topics

We invite broad participation from scholars and practitioners who work 
with or are interested in issues surrounding the preservation of and 
providing access to digital, privacy-sensitive collections. A 
non-exhaustive list of topics of interest include:

  * Digitization, curation, and preservation of privacy-sensitive
    collections
  * Theoretical and metadata models
  * Policies, workflows, and protections for accessing materials
  * Issues in using cloud services for privacy-sensitive materials
    storage and scholarship
  * Scholarly information behavior and needs
  * Models that recognize diverse user needs (for example, aggregate
    data, individual information)
  * Institutional and political negotiations surrounding access to
    privacy-sensitive collections
  * Mechanisms and models for data retrieval from handwritten documents
  * Privacy-aware digital repository architectures
  * Privacy-aware crowdsourcing and transcription methods
  * Privacy issues in designing user interfaces and data visualizations
  * Privacy mitigation in data analytics and presentation
  * Evaluation of existing software, infrastructure, and techniques
  * Social justice issues and non-scholarly outcomes of work with
    restricted collections


      Proposals: formats and submission

All contributions must be written in English.

We encourage you to submit proposals for:

  * *mature work (up to 500 words exclusive of references, 20-25 minute
    presentation)*: submissions that report on mature work or stake out
    a position in an area of interest
  * *work-in-progess (up to 250 words exclusive of references, 10-15
    minute presentation)*: submissions that present early results or a
    nascent project

Please submit papers via the workshop's*EasyChair submission page*: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=papc2017.


      Important dates:

  * *August 10*: due date for all proposals
  * *August 17*: Notification of acceptance
  * *August 25*(expected): Early registration date for iPRES 2017
  * *September 29*: PAPC2017 Workshop


      Organizers

Please contact us in case of questions.

Unmil Karadkar (unmil at ischool.utexas.edu 
<mailto:unmil at ischool.utexas.edu?subject=PAPC%20iPRES%202017%20workshop%20inquiry>)
Pat Galloway (galloway at ischool.utexas.edu 
<mailto:galloway at ischool.utexas.edu?subject=PAPC%20iPRES%202017%20workshop%20inquiry>)
King Davis(king.davis at austin.utexas.edu 
<mailto:king.davis at austin.utexas.edu?subject=PC4DS-DH%202017%20workshop%20inquiry>)

School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin


      Acknowledgement

The organizers are funded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (grant number: 
11500653) under the scholarly communications program.