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From: Clifford Lynch <cliff@cni.org>
Subject: PV 2005 Scientific Data Preservation Conference, Edinburgh, 21-23
 November
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This promises to be a very valuable conference on preservation and 
curation issues involved in scientific and technical data.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

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Ensuring Long-term Preservation and Adding Value
to Scientific and Technical data (PV 2005)
21- 23 November 2005
Royal Society, Edinburgh, UK

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/pv-2005/

Registration now open


This conference is the third of a series on long-term preservation and
adding value to scientific data, begun in 2002 in France. Over the past
several years the importance of this topic has been recognised
increasingly widely and the term "digital curation" has come into use
which covers similar ideas.

The vulnerability of digital data is a major concern. Storage hardware
and access software change on a timescale of 3 years or so, while if we
look over a decade or more then the knowledge and software base of
potential users which a data holder can rely on will also change
drastically. This means that extraordinary efforts must be made to
ensure that the information that is held remains understandable to
users, and especially when one includes automated processes within the
term "users".

Much scientific and technical data is kept because it is the record of
observations or phenomena which will never happen again, because it is
part of a long time series or because it forms part of the heritage
which future generations will wish to understand. Data managers are
therefore increasingly required to ensure the long-term preservation and
to add value to data as an integral part of their responsibilities. What
technological, methodological, standardizing and economic prospects are
now opening up in this field? These will be some of the issues addressed
during the symposium.

Each conference also has, in addition to general areas, a particular
theme. It seems timely for this conference to encourage contributions
from the areas of e-Science and digital libraries, where there is a
great deal of relevant work underway.

Programme:

The full programme is available at the conference website
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/pv-2005/

Main topics
1. Ensuring long-term data preservation
State of the art of data archiving and access techniques, for example:

what standardization has to offer (in the form of feedback from
experience),
adapting archiving techniques to the different categories of information
handled,such as scientific data, technical data, documents, sounds and
images,
system architecture in the context of constant technological
developments
Lines of technological research,
2. Adding value to data
State of the art of techniques used to add value to data (description of
data and associated services)
The operational use of systems (services provided for users, value added
services, etc.)
3. Lessons Learnt
Examples of working systems which claim to provide digital curation
services, and the lessons that can be derived from them.
The operational use of archives (inserts and updates, migration of
media, etc.)
4. Future Prospects
What services will be needed in future to support digital curation
Anticipating future users' needs
General Information
Venue:
The conference will take place at The Royal Society in Edinburgh, UK.
The venue is ideally situated in the centre of Edinburgh and provides
all the facilities necessary for a conference of this nature.

Registration:


Is now open on the conference website.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/pv-2005/


For further information regarding the conference please email
pv2005@ukoln.ac.uk