[Pasig-discuss] Workshop on Open Research Challenges in Digital Preservation @ iPRES2013

[Christoph Becker]

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                    Call for Contributions:
   ***  Open Research Challenges in Digital Preservation ***
                     Sep. 6, Lisbon, Portugal


Digital Preservation has emerged as a key challenge for information 
systems in almost any domain from eCommerce and eGovernment to finance, 
health, and personal life. The field is increasingly recognised and  has 
taken major strides in the last decade. However, key areas of research 
are often limited to applying solutions to existing problems rather than 
proactively investigating the challenges ahead and probing for 
innovative break-through approaches that would radically advance the domain.

Open Research Challenges @ IPRES 2013

To provide a forum for eliciting, discussing and refining future 
research challenges in digital longevity, we are organising a full-day 
workshop at IPRES 2013 in Lisbon, Portugal. The goal of this interactive 
workshop is to elicit and discuss DP research challenges to be tackled 
in the next decade. It brings together researchers in order to step 
beyond the limitations of solutions that are applicable now, and develop 
concepts, models and solutions for upcoming challenges. This will cover 
diverse areas such as Information Systems, Databases, Information 
Retrieval, Library and Archival Science, Content Management, Modeling, 
Simulation, Human-Computer Interaction, Scholarly Communication, Systems 
Engineering, Cloud computing, Security and others.

The workshop builds on a highly successful first workshop last year, but 
focuses the discussion on specific topics and encourages participants to 
arrive at specific research challenges that can be tackled in concrete 
research designs. The output will be published as a report.

The workshop is an interactive event focusing on discussions and 
inspirational exchange between participants on challenging new research 
questions. We do not wish to prescribe topics for challenges, but 
encourage proposals to think outside of the box and propose challenges 
that lie ahead rather than research problems that are currently being 
tackled.

Please submit your description of a research challenge in which you
     - argue for the concrete motivation behind this challenge,
     - set it in relation to existing work,
     - provide a context that enables understanding and further
       investigation and
     - outline, if possible, concrete research designs to tackle
       the challenge.

This includes questions such as the following
     - Why is this topic relevant?
     - Why has it not been addressed yet?
     - What are the problems involved?
     - What is the potential impact if this is successfully addressed?
     - What are possible ways of evaluating if it has been addressed?


* Format and mode of submissions

Papers must contain the sections Motivation; Current state-of-the-art; 
Research contributions and benefits; Outlook. Papers must be submitted 
in PDF format and should be 2-4 pages. They should conform to the ACM 
SIG template. Three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be 
indicated at the end of the abstract. It is expected that at least one 
author of each accepted challenge will register for and attend the 
workshop. Submissions should be sent to dpchallenges at ifs.tuwien.ac.at.


* Important dates
   - Challenge submission deadline: July 12, 2013
   - Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2013
   - Workshop: September 6, 2013

Up-to-date information can be found at the workshop website:

http://digitalpreservationchallenges.wordpress.com



With best regards, the workshop chairs:

Christoph Becker
Andreas Rauber
Christopher (Cal) Lee

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Christoph Becker
Senior Scientist
Information and Software Engineering Group
Vienna University of Technology
www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~becker