DAPS’08, Workshop on Digital Archive Preservation and Sustainability

Monday, September 22, 2008, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Held in Conjunction with the IEEE Mass Storage Systems & Technologies Conference
MSST2008

Chair: Ann Kerr, email akerr1@san.rr.com

Long term preservation requires the ability to make assertions about governance, sustainability, and trustworthiness. These concerns involve evolution of the community policies under which records are preserved, institutional commitment towards maintaining the preservation environment, and continued verification of the authenticity and integrity of records. As archives grow to the scale of hundreds of petabytes, these assertions become incompatible. This workshop will explore the inherent tensions in minimizing cost while ensuring sustainability, increasing governance controls while collection sizes grow, and improving integrity and authenticity assertions as the number of records increases. It will also explore existing and emerging digital preservation requirements and evolution of architectures.

Prospective participants should submit an abstract of their current work or a short position paper not to exceed 4 single-spaced pages, by May 30, 2008.

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