Return-Path: Sender: To: CNI-ANNOUNCE Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 09:15:01 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [160.39.243.73] (HELO [192.100.21.10]) by cni.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.8) with ESMTPS id 26984073 for cni-announce@cni.org; Fri, 25 May 2007 08:15:44 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Original-Message-Id: X-Original-Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 05:01:12 -0700 X-Original-To: cni-announce@cni.org From: Clifford Lynch Subject: International DIgital Preservation Challenge from Digital Preservation Europe Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" I wanted to share this announcement on the FIrst International Digital Preservation Challenge (and Prizes) from Digital Preservation Europe. It's designed to bring new ideas and new participants into the digital preservation community, and seems like a splendid idea. Note that the Challenge is open to entrants worldwide, not just from Europe. Clifford Lynch Director, CNI ----------------------------------------- DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE) is delighted to announce its first international Digital Preservation Challenge. http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/challenge/ DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE) raises awareness and improves practice in the management, longevity, and reuse of digital assets. To this end, DPE is delighted to announce the first international Digital Preservation Challenge. The Digital Preservation Challenge aims to promote innovation at all levels from students to researchers, and will provide an insight into the range of digital preservation risks currently being faced by international research and practitioner communities. About the challenge The challenge invites participants to overcome the barriers hindering access to six digital objects. Each object is accompanied by a highly abstracted scenario based on real-life situations. These scenarios are intended to make the challenge more accessible to participants from all backgrounds while not trivialising the serious nature of the digital preservation challenges facing society. Who is eligible to enter? The first Digital Preservation Challenge is open to individuals from any country or discipline. Post-graduate and undergraduate students with a computing science, engineering, or information science background should be especially well-placed to tackle the challenge. This first Digital Preservation Challenge is not open to professional research teams or labs, however future competitions will be planned for these communities. The rules and regulations governing this challenge can be found at http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/challenge/rules. Evaluating submissions Submissions to the first Digital Preservation Challenge will be assessed by a panel of international digital preservation experts and practitioners. The incremental scoring method the panel will use emphasizes the thoroughness and quality of the documentation of the processes used to render the objects rather than the overall outcome itself. In this respect, it may be possible for an individual to win the challenge even if he/she cannot ultimately render all of the objects. All submissions to the Digital Preservation Challenge will be published on the DPE website following the announcement of the winning entries. The deadline for submissions for the first Digital Preservation Challenge is 15 July 2007. Submission can be completed online. Winners will be announced on 18 September 2007 at the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL) Conference Dinner. ECDL is the premier European conference on innovation in digital libraries. The conference will take place in Budapest from 16-21 September 2007. To learn more about or to take part in the Digital Preservation Challenge, please visit http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/challenge/. Important dates Opening of the Challenge: 23 May 2007 Deadline for submissions: 15 July 2007 at 5pm GMT Announcement of winners: 18 September 2007 Awards First Prize 3000 Euros Second Prize 1500 Euros Third Prize 500 Euros Questions or comments should be sent to challenge@digitalpreservationeurope.eu. Best wishes, Professor Seamus Ross Principal Director DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE) HATII at the University of Glasgow 11 University Gardens Glasgow, G12 8QQ http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk http://digitalpreservationeurope.eu & Professor Andreas Rauber Director of DigitalPreservationEurope's Exchange Programme Vienna University of Technology Karlsplatz 13 A-1040 Vienna http://www.tuwien.ac.at/tu_vienna/ http://digitalpreservationeurope.eu