Call for Proposals: iPRES2017 workshop
Posted June 29, 2017
Recent developments in digitization and dissemination technologies present the possibility of making archival collections broadly available to a global audience. In addition, new collections of born-digital documents will be readily available to support a multitude of objectives of their diverse, worldwide stakeholders. Demographics such as family members, journalists, social services providers, and policy makers can all benefit from access to these historical collections.
While these advances are broadly welcomed in most circumstances, some archival collections include restricted or privacy-sensitive collections. Examples of such privacy-sensitive records include mental health institutional records, prison records, records of the Truth and reconciliation commissions, Nazi archives, and the Guatemalan national police archives. While access to paper documents is protected by distance, physical barriers, and varying state and national policies and laws, digital access may exacerbate threats to the privacy of individuals named in these records. The online availability of such records has a potential to stigmatize or embarrass the families or descendants of those named in the records when they bear no responsibility for the acts or health conditions of the named individuals, raising ethical issues in providing broad, open access to these records. In some cases, the legal frameworks for digital records are substantially less clear than those for physical records.
Topics
We invite broad participation from scholars and practitioners who work with or are interested in issues surrounding the preservation of and providing access to digital, privacy-sensitive collections. A
non-exhaustive list of topics of interest include:
- Digitization, curation, and preservation of privacy-sensitive collections
- Theoretical and metadata models
- Policies, workflows, and protections for accessing materials
- Issues in using cloud services for privacy-sensitive materials storage and scholarship
- Scholarly information behavior and needs
- Models that recognize diverse user needs (for example, aggregate data, individual information)
- Institutional and political negotiations surrounding access to privacy-sensitive collections
- Mechanisms and models for data retrieval from handwritten documents
- Privacy-aware digital repository architectures
- Privacy-aware crowdsourcing and transcription methods
- Privacy issues in designing user interfaces and data visualizations
- Privacy mitigation in data analytics and presentation
- Evaluation of existing software, infrastructure, and techniques
- Social justice issues and non-scholarly outcomes of work with
- restricted collections
Proposals: formats and submission
All contributions must be written in English. We encourage you to submit proposals for:
- mature work (up to 500 words exclusive of references, 20-25 minute presentation): submissions that report on mature work or stake out a position in an area of interest
- work-in-progess (up to 250 words exclusive of references, 10-15 minute presentation): submissions that present early results or a nascent project
Please submit papers via the workshop’s “EasyChair submission page”: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=papc2017.
Important dates:
- August 10: due date for all proposals
- August 17: Notification of acceptance
- August 25 (expected): Early registration date for iPRES 2017
- September 29: PAPC2017 Workshop
Organizers
Please contact us in case of questions.
Unmil Karadkar ([email protected])
Pat Galloway ([email protected])
King Davis([email protected])
School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin
Acknowledgement
The organizers are funded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation(grant number: 11500653) under the scholarly communications program.