iPRES 2017 - 14th International Conference on Digital Preservation

Kyoto University is delighted to announce that the 14th International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES) will take place from September 25th (Mon.) to 29th (Fri.), 2017 in Kyoto, Japan.
The iPRES 2017 hosted by Kyoto University will contribute to promotion of researches and development of technologies and services of digital preservation. Like previous iPRES conferences, iPRES 2017 will serve as an international forum for the global community of digital preservation, and, in particular, it will contribute to Japanese and Asian communities of digital preservation.
The main objectives at iPRES 2017 will be cultural resources in various domains and from various viewpoints. Academic societies in the areas of digital humanities and information resource management are the main communities to support this conference in Japan. This conference will be organized in collaboration with major memory institutions in Japan.
Kyoto University has strong relationships with Asian countries through their area research activities, which will add new features to the iPRES conference series.
The theme of the coming conference is: Keeping Cultural Diversity for the Future in the Digital Space ? From Pop Culture to Scholarly Information.
We invite contributions that present original work about research initiatives and innovative practices in digital preservation and expect that the contributions will be
Leading edge
Innovative
Effective in informing and promoting the digital preservation debates.
The conference program will be structured around two key strands ? research and innovative practice. Contributions are invited for both strands.
Contribution topics
We welcome contributions that address at least one of the following topics:
Institutional challenges, infrastructure (organizational and technological) opportunities and challenges, lessons learned
Frameworks for digital preservation, their implementation, institutional integration and evaluation
Novel preservation strategies, preservation planning, workflows and tools for
Digital art conservation (conceptual and practical)
Games preservation
Web preservation
Social media
Training and education, case studies, best practices and novel challenges
Research data preservation
Characterization, preservation and curation of large (heterogeneous) data sets
Modeling and description of scientific processes and context, engineering models and simulations
Risk models, dependency management
Scalable preservation, service business models
All submissions will be subject to a peer review. Those that are accepted for inclusion in the conference programme will be published in the iPRES 2017 proceedings.