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Personal Digital Archiving 2014, 10-11 April (**
NOTE DATE
The 2014 Personal Digital Archiving Conference will be held in
Indianapolis, Indiana on April 10-11, 2014. (Note that the dates
have changed from the originally announced April 17-18). I've attached
the call for papers for this important conference below. The Web site
for the meeting at
http://visions.indstate.edu/pda2014/index.html
also has some additional information, as well as links to
materials from previous conferences in the series. Once again, CNI is
very pleased to be a collaborating organization in this event.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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Call for Papers
Personal Digital Archiving 2014
"Building Stronger Personal Digital Archiving
Communities"
10-11 April 2014
Indiana State Library, Indianapolis, Indiana
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: December 2, 2013
Personal Digital Archiving 2014 explores the intersections
between individuals, public institutions, and private companies
engaged in the creation, preservation and ongoing use of the digital
records of our daily lives. The conference reflects upon the current
status of personal archiving, its achievements, challenges, issues,
and needs as evidenced through research, education, case studies,
practitioner experiences, best practices, the development of tools and
services, storage options, curation, and economic sustainability.
There is also interest in the role of libraries, archives and other
cultural heritage organizations in supporting personal digital
archiving through outreach or in conjunction with developing community
history collections.
The PDA 2014 Program Committee invites proposals on a full range
of topics relevant to personal digital archiving from everyone who
seeks to ensure long-term access and preservation for personal
collections and archives. Case studies that illustrate effective ways
to help users and institutions manage personal digital archives are
especially encouraged. Presentations might also address materials and
format challenges including family archives of photographs and home
movies, personal health and financial data, scrapbooking, social
network posts, genealogy, blogs, email and other correspondence.
Presentations might explore how personal digital archives are being
used in the research conducted within various scholarly disciplines
and how such use impacts research methodologies. Themes that unite
digital archives, including interface design for archives;
institutional practices; community outreach; tools; and funding models
are welcomed. Additionally the program committee encourages proposals
exploring the following questions:
- What social contexts shape what people decide to preserve and make
accessible about their lives over time?
- How do we preserve the ability to access digital content over time
when every app/community/network has a lifecycle that involves the end
of its existence?
- Is there too much fragmentation and reinvention of the wheel in
the PDA field? Are there collaborative models to consider to encourage
greater efficiency?
- How should libraries, museums and archives collect personal
digital materials? How do we better share our knowledge and
communicate about our work (including the failures as well as the
successes)?
- How are archivists, curators, genealogists using born-digital
and/or digitized material in their research?
- What are some practical strategies for helping libraries, museums
and archives conduct personal archiving outreach to their communities?
- How can individuals be encouraged to undertake personal digital
archiving activities?
- What are effective strategies and best practices for personal
digital archiving in social media and ecommerce settings?
- What is the best way to integrate scanning of analog materials
into personal digital archiving while recognizing that digitization
isn't digital preservation?
- What tools and services now exist to help with personal archiving?
What do we need to make the process easier or more effective?
- What storage options are currently available; how do they compare
with one another; and what can we expect to see in the near future?
How do we address scalability issues?
- What are viable existing economic models that can support personal
archives? What new economic models should we evaluate?
- What are the key issues associated with digital estate planning
and "the digital afterlife"?
- How can users work with social media companies for better APIs
and/or download services to get usefully formatted export of personal
data?
- How do Terms of Service vary for social media networks and
cloud-based services, particularly in connection with ownership,
copyright, privacy and liability?
The conference program will include three types of presentations:
20-minute papers, 5-minute lightning talks, and posters (including
demos).
Submissions should include the title of your project, paper or
presentation and
- For 20-minute paper presentations, a 300-word abstract
- For lightning talks and posters, a 150-300 word abstract
- A brief biographical sketch or CV (no more than 2 pages)
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