APA International Conference on Digital Preservation and Development of Trusted Digital Repositories

The Centre of Excellence for Digital Preservation, C-DAC, India and Alliance for Permanent Access (APA), are pleased to announce the APA International Conference on Digital Preservation and Development of Trusted Digital Repositories to be held at New Delhi, India, during 5-6 February 2014.

Call for Papers

The organizers of this conference invite research papers, case study papers and position papers based on the following thematic areas which have to be submitted before 01 October 2013.

Thematic Areas

– Digital preservation in various domains such as e-government, scientific and research data, geospatial information, electronic health records, audio and video, media archives, government and cultural archives, corporate data archives, etc.
– Domain specific adaptation of Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model
– Digital disasters and recovery
– Digital forensic for authenticity of information
– Technological infrastructure development for trusted digital repositories
– Trusted digital repositories in cloud
– Digital preservation for legal compliances
– The challenges and techniques for maintaining trust in electronic records over long period
– Integrating e-record management with e-government
– Approaches for long term sustainability of digital repositories
– Data mining and repurposing of digital information stored in digital repositories
– Long term storage solutions with techniques for optimization and efficacy
– Preparing for audit and certification of digital repositories
– Design of domain specific digital preservation policy framework
– Curriculum design for digital preservation