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Personal Digital Archiving 2016 Call for
Submissions
Here is the call for submissions for the upcoming 2016 Personal
Digital Archiving meeting. CNI is delighted to once again serve as a
cooperating organization for this conference.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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We are pleased to announce that the annual Personal Digital
Archiving 2016 conference will be hosted at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on
May 12-14, 2016.
As the centrality of personal digital archives and the ubiquity of
digital content grows, librarians, archivists, scholars, students,
activists, and those who fill the role of the "family IT person,"
have to deal with how to best select, preserve, and manage digital
material. PDA 2016 seeks to host a discussion across domains focusing
on how to best manage personal digital material, be it at a large
institution or in a home office.
Personal Digital Archiving 2016 invites proposals on a variety of
relevant topics, suggested but not limited to:
- Personal digital archives and why they matter to individuals,
communities, and organizations
- Distinctions between personal information management and the
archive
- Key threats to personal digital archives
- Applying selection criteria to personal digital archives
- The digital archive during a person's life and after death
- Management tools and techniques for personal digital archives
- Costs associated with maintaining a personal digital archive
We also welcome proposals for hands-on full and half-day
workshops for Saturday, May 14. In particular, workshops may be
focused on mobilizing communities of interest or on digital archive
tools and techniques.
For PDA 2016, we seek to create a balanced showcase for current and
emerging scholarship on personal information management and personal
digital archiving, as well as for exciting and innovative projects and
programs. We strongly encourage proposals from a wide-range of people
and organizations. These may include but are not limited to: community
organizations focused on gathering oral histories or other local
collections, academia, graduate students of all levels in all related
disciplines, those preserving familial material, activist groups,
hobbyists, tool developers, and information professionals such as
archivists, librarians, and curators. For proposals focusing on
sharing practice, please note that we are not only seeking
"perfect" archiving solutions and strongly encourage
proposals discussing "good enough" preservation and
challenges or roadblocks to archiving this content.
PDA 2016 will follow the format of the last conference, with two days
of presentations, panels, and posters, and a third day of workshops.
The program committee seeks proposals for:
- 10-°©20 °©minute presentations
- 5 °©minute lightning talks
- posters (including demos)
- workshops, particularly those emphasizing technology or procedures
enabling grassroots or familial archiving efforts (taking place on the
third day).
Your submissions should include:
- The title of your presentation
- For 10°©-20°© minute presentations: a 300 °©word
abstract
- For lightning talks and posters: a 150-°©300 word abstract
- For workshop proposals: a 150°©-300 word curriculum overview,
including approximate number of hours needed, what tools will be
taught, and computing infrastructure requirements
- For panel proposals: a 150°©-300 word overview of the topic
and suggestions for additional presenters
- A brief biographical sketch (a paragraph or so) or CV (no more
than 2 pages)
The Program and Host Committees will group presentations by
common themes when possible. Shorter presentations may be grouped into
relevant panels. We will be incorporating a variety of discussion
periods to encourage interaction and the sharing of different
perspectives among what will hopefully be a diverse group of
attendees.
Lance Stuchell, on behalf of the PDA 2016 Program
Committee
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Lance Stuchell
Digital Preservation Librarian
Department of Preservation and Conservation
University Library, University of Michigan
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