{"id":91,"date":"2013-09-05T14:31:55","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T05:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/play-it-again\/?p=91"},"modified":"2013-09-05T14:31:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T05:01:55","slug":"conference-cfp-the-born-digital-and-cultural-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/play-it-again\/2013\/09\/05\/conference-cfp-the-born-digital-and-cultural-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference CFP: The Born Digital and Cultural Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Update 22\/10\/13: The conference website is now up, at http:\/\/playitagainproject.org\/conference.\u00a0 Updates and further information on the conference will be posted there.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

CFP: The Born Digital and Cultural Heritage, 19-20 June, 2014, Melbourne<\/p>\n

Whilst many artefacts today are produced, distributed and consumed solely in digital form, this situation is not completely new.\u00a0 Artefacts from previous eras have also been \u2018born\u2019 digital.\u00a0 The advent of micro- or home computers in the mid-1970s and 80s, for instance, saw a range of digital artefacts produced, amongst them digital games, demos, and other early software.\u00a0 These objects are complex and interesting as are the preservation challenges they pose.\u00a0 To issues of hardware and software deterioration are added characteristics such as real-time responsiveness, highly-invested fan communities, and the earliness with which decisions about significance and preservation strategies must be arrived at.\u00a0 Games preservation is emerging as an experimental domain where some of the thorniest issues in born digital cultural heritage are confronted.\u00a0 No longer a niche endeavour limited to those who played titles \u2018back in the day\u2019, developments in games preservation and related fields are of relevance to many different cultural forms, their scholars and custodians.\u00a0 Playability also creates interest in and enlivens the preservation message, making it easier for non-specialists to grasp.<\/p>\n

We invite proposals for papers, panels, and workshops for an international conference on The Born Digital and Cultural Heritage, to be held at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne, 19-20 June, 2014.\u00a0 Recognising that born digital artefacts often require multiple sets of expertise, we are keen to receive proposals from researchers and practitioners in the range of disciplines, spheres of practice and institutional contexts concerned with born digital heritage.\u00a0 This includes libraries, archives, museums, galleries, moving image institutions, software repositories, universities, and more besides.\u00a0 Proposals might be theoretical, practical, policy, or otherwise oriented.\u00a0 Case studies of innovative practices, papers based on research with born digital artefacts, and new institutional approaches are equally welcome.<\/p>\n

Possible topics include:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Born digital histories<\/p>\n

\u2022 Born digital items as cultural heritage<\/p>\n

\u2022 Changing notions of the collection<\/p>\n

\u2022 Vernacular digitality<\/p>\n

\u2022 Selection, appraisal, deposit<\/p>\n

\u2022 Jurisdictions, overlaps, gaps<\/p>\n

\u2022 Resourcing, funding, partnerships<\/p>\n

\u2022 Archiving of media arts, architecture, broadcasting, etc<\/p>\n

\u2022 Relation of born digital preservation to digitisation programs<\/p>\n

\u2022 Inter-agency cooperation, federations and networks<\/p>\n

\u2022 Models of collaboration, outside experts, volunteers<\/p>\n

\u2022 Access and exhibition<\/p>\n

\u2022 Legal issues, intellectual property, orphaned works, legal deposit<\/p>\n

\u2022 Workforce, capacity building, training<\/p>\n

\u2022 New preservation and conservation techniques<\/p>\n

\u2022 Case Studies and Best Practices: Processes, Metadata, Systems, Services, Infrastructures<\/p>\n

We hope you will join us to engage with research and practice in those fields which underpin such critically important matters as the accessibility of born digital cultural heritage, now and into the future.<\/p>\n

This conference is organised by the Play It Again team, a games history and preservation research project focused on microcomputer games created in 1980s Australia and New Zealand.\u00a0 Play It Again is a multidisciplinary project involving scholars from Humanities, Computer Science, and Law from several Australian and New Zealand universities, working collaboratively with cultural heritage professionals at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, the New Zealand Film Archive, and the Berlin Computerspiele Museum.\u00a0 Play It Again received 3 year project funding (2012-14) under the Australian Research Council\u2019s Linkage Projects scheme.<\/p>\n

There will be a separate cultural sector workshop on the 18th June at Melbourne University, at which the Play It Again team will be sharing some of the learning from the project.<\/p>\n

To propose a paper, please send an abstract of 300 words, plus keywords and references, and a brief author biography to playitagain@flinders.edu.au\u00a0 Abstracts are due 15 November, 2013.<\/p>\n

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(Updated: 18\/10\/13)<\/p>\n

Publication<\/p>\n

It is anticipated that there will be at least one publication following the conference.\u00a0 Authors who would like their full conference paper to be considered for publication in a proceedings before the conference — in the Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology series — must follow a separate set of timelines and processes during the Call for Papers period.<\/p>\n

Abstract submission deadline: 15 November 2013<\/p>\n

Paper submission deadline:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 29 November 2013<\/p>\n

Author notification:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 28 February 2014<\/p>\n

Camera-ready paper due:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4 April 2014<\/p>\n

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Instructions for Authors (for the CRPIT Proceedings only)<\/p>\n

Papers should be no more than 10 pages in length, and conform to the formatting instructions for the Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology series.\u00a0 Resources for authors: http:\/\/crpit.com\/AuthorsSubmitting.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Each paper will undergo double-blind review by at least two reviewers. Papers will be judged on originality, significance, technical quality, and relevance to the conference. Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of “The Born Digital and Cultural Heritage conference”, to be published by the Australian Computer Society in the Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology series http:\/\/crpit.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Submission of a paper will be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one author will attend the conference to present the work.<\/p>\n

The proceedings are included in the ACM digital library and indexed on Scopus and DBLP.<\/p>\n

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