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This pre-conference symposium co-located with Balisage 2010 
should be of interest to readers of this list.  Please forward 
as appropriate.
And if you have a department bulletin board, you might print 
out the flyer at http://balisage.net/Handouts/LongHaulCall.pdf 
and put it up for others to see.  See you there!  -Michael 
Sperberg-McQueen


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                       Call for Participation:
           International Symposium on XML for the Long Haul
             Issues in the Long-term preservation of XML

                         Monday 2 August 2010
                    Hotel Europa, Montr��al, Canada

       Chair: Michael Sperberg-McQueen, Black Mesa Technologies

                    http://balisage.net/longhaul/

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Nearly everywhere, people who create, store, query, or serve 
XML expect it to live a very long time. XML is platform- and
application-independent, and by and large it is platforms and
applications that vanish. If by encoding information in XML we 
have freed it from dependency on specific platforms or 
applications, have we succeeded in ensuring that the XML can 
live long into the future?

Or is there more to it than using XML? How can we best ensure 
that our  data, all our data, and its semantics survive this 
year, next year, ten years? into the next millennium? 
Commercial information may have a useful lifetime measured in 
years or decades;
cultural-heritage material, scientific data, governmental data, 
and historical documents need to be preserved for centuries; 
information about nuclear waste products will remain relevant 
for hundreds of millennia. It��s not enough for the bits to 
survive; the meaning of the information needs to survive as 
well. What are we doing and what should we be doing to help its 
survival?

This one-day symposium will bring together researchers, 
government analysts, archivists, preservationists, librarians, 
and XML practitioners to discuss the problems and challenges of 
deep time document encoding. What is being done now and what 
more we can do?

We solicit papers addressing any aspect of this problem 
complex,
including but not limited to:

   - Analysis of the problem: what are the requirements?

   - How is XML for long-term archiving different from XML for
     immediate processing or message interchange?

   - Identification of particular risk factors (with or without
     recommendations for managing risks)

   - Long-term preservation and access issues in library, 
commercial,
     governmental, or other contexts

   - Designing for survival

   - How tradeoffs in the design of markup vocabularies affect 
data
     life

   - Reports from the field on success or failure of specific
     techniques in preservation in particular fields (energy,
     defense, healthcare, STM journal articles, historical 
editions,
     curated scientific and scholarly data, product support and
     maintenance data, legislative records, etc.)

   - How to document the semantics of markup vocabularies so as 
to
     ensure that documents can be understood in the future

   - How to document and preserve application semantics

   - How to use XML as a wrapper around pre- or non-XML data to
     improve its chances of survival

   - The role of packaging

   - How to ensure that XML data remain usable even if the
     application environment they were built in (or for) has
     disappeared

   - Does scale change everything?


Paper Submissions

Paper submissions for the symposium should follow the 
instructions
for submissions to the main Balisage 2010 conference (same 
format,
same address, same due date).

Paper submissions are due 16 April 2010.



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* http://cmsmcq.com/mib
* http://balisage.net
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Happy XMLing


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