SDA 2015 - 5th International Workshop on Semantic Digital Archives (SDA 2015)

Archival Information Systems (AIS) and Archival Information Infrastructures (AII) are becoming increasingly important. For decades, the amount of content created digitally is growing. A selection of this content is expected to be of value for the future and can thus be considered being part of our cultural heritage and, hence, needs to be curated and kept accessible for future users. Besides cultural heritage institutions, also companies have a huge demand for the longterm preservation of their data and processes for legal purposes and economic competitiveness.
Digital content still poses many challenges for long-term or indenite preservation. E.g. digital publications become increasingly complex by the embedding of dierent kinds of multimedia, data formats and software. As soon as these digital publications become obsolete, but are still deemed to be of value in the future, they have to be transferred smoothly within a secure, reliable and trustable AII into an equally appropriate AIS where they need to be kept accessible even through changing technologies and changing user communities.
Changing technologies and changing user communities are major challenges. On the one hand software, hardware and (multimedia) data formats that become obsolete and are not supported anymore still need to be kept accessible. On the other hand changing user communities necessitate technical means to formalize, detect and measure knowledge evolution and information seeking needs.
Digital archival records are usually not deleted from the AIS and therefore, the amount of digitally archived content can be expected to grow rapidly. Therefore, ecient storage management solutions geared to the fact that cultural heritage is not as frequently accessed like up-to-date content residing in a digital library are required. Software and hardware needs to be tightly connected based on sophisticated knowledge representation and management models in order to face that challenge. Furthermore, solutions for the proper integration of new archival records (ingest as denoted in the archival community) from various kinds of information systems into an existing AIS are needed.
Finally, the exploration of large archives covering long time periods requires novel methods supporting users in getting overviews, understand and interpret knowledge, and putting content into context.
In line with the above, contributions to the workshop should focus on, but are not limited to:
Archival Information systems (AIS) and Archival Information Infrastructures
(AII) in general
Architectures and Frameworks for AIS and AII
Contextualization of digital archives, museums and digital libraries
Ontologies & linked data for AIS, AII, museums and digital libraries
Logical theories for digital archives & digital preservation
Knowledge evolution
Semantic temporal analytics
(Semantic) provenance models
CIDOC CRM and extensions
Semantic long-term storage & hardware organization for AIS & AII & digital
libraries
Semantic extensions of emulation/virtualization methodologies tailored for
AIS & AII & digital libraries
Implementations & evaluations of (semantic) AIS, AII, semantic digital museums
& semantic digital libraries
Preservation of scientic and research data
Preservation of workflow processes
Appraisal and selection of content
Semantic search & information retrieval in digital archives, digital museums
and digital libraries
User studies focusing on end-user needs and information seeking behavior of
end-users
User interfaces for (semantic) AIS, AII, digital museums & semantic digital
libraries
Formalizations for changes in (designated) user communities
Semantic multimedia AIS, AII, multimedia museums & multimedia libraries
Web Archives
Specialized AIS & AII for specic services like Twitter, etc.
(Semantic) Preservation Processes and Protocols
Semantic (Web) services implementing AIS & AII
Information integration/semantic ingest (e.g. from digital libraries)
Trust for ingest & data security/integrity check for long-term storage of
archival records
Migration strategies based on Semantic Web technologies
Legal issues
Different communities, most notably, the library and the archiving community have made valuable contributions to the management of huge amounts of knowledge and data. Despite the similarities, both are traditionally approaching this topic from different views, amongst others by preferring either the pertinence or the provenance principle. Another scientific discipline providing promising technical solutions for knowledge representation and knowledge management is semantic technologies, which consists of a theoretical community focusing on the logical underpinning of Semantic Web languages and an application oriented community which is supported by appropriate W3C recommendations and a large user community. At the forefront of making the semantic web a mature applicable reality is the linked data initiative, which already is being adopted by the library community. It can be expected that using semantic (web) technologies in general and linked data in particular can mature the area of digital archiving as well and technologically tighten the natural bond between digital libraries and digital archives.