[SPG_Active_Members] Fwd: CfP ERCIM News: Special theme Digital Preservation

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From: Strathmann, Stefan <strathmann at sub.uni-goettingen.de>
Date: Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 01:46
Subject: [nestor] FW: [Fwd: CfP ERCIM News: Special theme Digital
Preservation]
To: nestor at langzeitarchivierung.de

>    *Call for Contributions to ERCIM News No. 80 (January 2010)*

> DEADLINE FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Monday 30 November 2009

> Special Theme: "*Digital Preservation*"

> /Coordinated by: Ingeborg Sølvberg, Norwegian University of Technology
                           Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology
>
> Digital Preservation, i.e. the effort to ensure long-term availability,
accessibility and usability of digital information, has moved from a
> niche topic for memory institutions to a pressing challenge for virtually
all sectors, ranging from eGovernment via various industry
> sectors, finance, to small office / home office and private user
environments. Our most valuable assets - both financially as well as
> emotionally - exist (solely) in digital form. As software programs needed
to access these objects, as operating systems needed to run the
> software, and as hardware platforms for these operating systems as well as
media are being replaced in ever shorter innovation cycles, digital
> objects turn out to be more fragile than anticipated.  The need to
maintain them usable in the near, mid-term or far away
> future has led to the development of numerous solutions, addressing
storage, system design, organizational principles and others.
>
> This ERCIM News Special Theme on "Digital Preservation" invites short
articles (700-800 words) presenting approaches, frameworks and
> applications that will help to ensure long-term accessibility of digital
objects in all kind of application domains.
>
> Topics include but are not limited to:
>
>      * Trusted Repositories: Content Management Systems & Digital
>        Preservation
>      * Scalability and Automation
>      * Institutional and Personal Archiving
>      * Long-term Storage Technologies
>      * Cloud and Grid Solutions in digital Preservation
>      * Audit, Certification and Compliance Initiatives
>      * Investment and Cost Models for Digital Preservation
>      * Legal implications, requirements and cases involving
> Preservation
>      * Preservation Systems and Modules
>      * Modelling of preservation systems and object representations
>      * Case studies in different domains including
>            o Cultural heritage
>            o eGovernment
>            o Pharmaceutical, Aerospace, Manufacturing
>            o Banking, Finance
>            o Scientific Datasets, Sensor Data.
>
> *Reviewing:*
> Articles submitted to the special theme are subject to a
> review process.
>
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> ----------
>
>
>    Guidelines for ERCIM News articles
>
> *Style:* ERCIM News is read by a large variety of people. Keeping this
> in mind the article should be descriptive (emphasize more the 'what'
> than the 'how') without too much technical detail together with an
> illustration, if possible.
>
> Contributions in ERCIM News are normally presented without
> formulas. One
> can get a long way with careful phrasing, although it is not
> always wise
> to avoid formulas altogether. In cases where authors feel that the use
> of formulas is necessary to clarify matters, this should be done in a
> separate box (to be treated as an illustration). However, formulas and
> symbols scattered through the text must be avoided as much as
> possible.
>
> *Length:* Keep the article short, i.e. 700-800 words.
>
> *Format:* Submissions preferably in ASCII text or MS Word.
> Pictures/Illustrations must be submitted as separate files
> (not embedded
> in a Word file) in a resolution/quality suitable for printing.
>
> *Structure of the article:*
> The emphasis in ERCIM News is on 'NEWS'. This should be reflected in
> both title and lead ('teaser').
> Also: NO REVIEW ARTICLES!
>
>      * *Title*
>      * *Author *(full name, max. two or three authors)
>      * *Teaser:*
>        a few words about the project/topic. Printed in bold face, this
>        part is intended to raise interest. (keep it short)
>      * *Details describing*:
>        what the project/product is
>        who is involved
>        where it takes place
>        why the research is being done
>        when it was started/completed the aim of the project
>        the techniques employed the orientation of the project
>        future activities
>        other institutes involved in this project
>        co-operation with other ERCIM members in this field
>      * *Useful Link(s) (only URIs, no references!)*
>      * *Contact address* with:
>        - full name of the author
>        - phone number
>        - e-mail address
>      * *Photos, illustrations*:
>        ERCIM News is a full color print magazine. Each article should be
>        accompagnied by an illustration (photo, graphics), for example of
>        the product, applications mentioned in the article, people working
>        on the project, etc. (avoid as much as possible flow charts and
>        screen dumps).
>        Photos should be submitted in jpg or tiff format in a resolution
>        suitable for printing (pictures taken from the web are usually not
>        in a quality suitable for printing). Graphics preferably in a
vector format (svg, eps, ps)
>
>  Publishing in ERCIM News <http://ercim.news.ercim.org> offers several
advantages:*
>      * ERCIM News represents an excellent opportunity to present your
research to a broad audience, also outside your own research
>        community
>            o the printed edition has a circulation of 9,000 copies
>            o the online edition has excellent visibility with a Google
>              ranking of PR8
>      * ERCIM News is widely distributed in the European Commission
>      * ERCIM offers a free professional proof-reading service
>      * Authors can reuse their articles; the copyright of the articles
remains with the authors.
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