November 1-4, 2011, Singapore 

The National Library Board, Singapore and the Nanyang Technological University are pleased to host the International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES 2011) in Singapore in November 2011. iPRES 2011 will be the eighth in the series of annual international conferences that bring together researchers and practitioners from around the world to explore the latest trends, innovations, policies and practices in preserving our digital heritage.

Digital Preservation and Curation is evolving from a niche activity to an established practice and research field that involves various disciplines and communities. iPRES 2011 will re-emphasise that preserving our scientific and cultural digital heritage requires integration of activities and research across institutional and disciplinary boundaries to adequately address the challenges in digital preservation. iPRES 2011 will further strengthen the link between digital preservation research and practitioners in memory institutions and scientific research data centres.

iPRES 2011 organisers

iPRES 2011 is jointly organised by 

• the National Library Board
• the Wee Kim Wee School of Communications and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

iPRES 2011 Sponsors

iPRES 2011 is made possible through the generous sponsorship from our sponsors.

Platinum Sponsors:

• Tessella plc

• Fotohub

Gold Sponsor:

• Planman Technologies

Silver Sponsor:

• Infocom

Supported by:

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Dear Delegates,

We hope you enjoyed yourselves at last year's IPRES and look forward to seeing all of you again as the conference moves to Canada in 2012 :)

Here's the conference proceedings for those of you who have requested for it. It's a little large (16mb), so do allow some time for it to load.

Once again, the organising committee would like to thank all sponsors and attendees for your kind support in making this event a resounding success!

Happy New Year!

the team at IPRES 2011.

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Pictures of the Day: 3rd November 2011

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Photography: Timothy Pwee

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Photography: Sebastian Song

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Dear Delegates,

The organising committee is pleased to announce that all delegates are invited to our welcome reception dinner on 1st Nov, Tuesday at 5:30pm at The Courtyard, Level 5 at the National Library Building. Do come by to mingle with fellow candidates at this outdoor space overlooking downtown Bugis district.

One more week!

the team at iPRES 2011

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Dear Delegates,

Due to overwhelming response, new signups for the site visits to the National Archives of Singapore and Heritage Centre will now be put on a waitlist, subject to availability.

We're pleased to announce that the latest version of the Conference Programme is up for your reference here.

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Dear delegates,

For student registrants, we are pleased to inform everyone that students will enjoy a 15% discount on all conference fees, upon presentation of valid student identification. This discount is administered for onsite cash payments only.

Elsewhere, the tutorials pages has also been updated with moredetails on Tutorial 1: Preservation Metadata and PREMIS.

Warmest regards,

the team at iPRES 2011

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Dear Delegates,

We have just uploaded the finalized Conference Programme (pending details on Keynote 2) and it is now embedded as a document for your easy reference. Over at Panel Discussions, we've moved the order of Panel 2 and 3, and also included the details for Panel 3 on "Digital Preservation and Disaster Scenarios".

Counting down to November!

the team at IPRES 2011

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Dear delegates,

We have just updated our Conference Programme with the timings of the individual paper sessions. A new section of the different paper presentions can now be found here. Last but not least, the abstract of Dr Ross Wilkinson's keynote address "Opportunities and Challenges of Preserving Research Data" can also be found here.

You'd also notice we have updated our sponsors list; we'd like to thank Tessella and Dow Jones for making this conference possible.

Counting down to November!

the team at iPRES2011

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Dear Delegates,

We have uploaded more details to the Programme, Workshops and Tutorials pages. You'll also find a new page, Panel Discussions. Don't be alarmed if some of the information are still missing; once confirmed these gaps will be filled shortly and we appreciate your kind patience.

Once again, we look forward to seeing you in sunny Singapore :)

Sincerely,

the team at iPRES 2011

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Dear Delegates,

Just a quick update to let everyone know that there is now an online form for registration; through this we hope to save you time in liasing with the organizers for the registration process.

Elsewhere, we have also made adjustments to the fee structures. Do take this opportunity to apply early to enjoy the early bird discounts.

We hope to see you in sunny Singapore soon!

Best,

The team at iPRES 2011

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Dear Delegates,

Some of you had written to us but we had a typo in my correspondence address.

Kindly direct all enquires to: Roslinda_Rahman@nlb.gov.sg

We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

In other news, our conference logo for iPRES 2011 is out! Do let us know what you think.

:)

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Dear distinguished Presenters and Delegates,

The tentative conference programme, as well as the revised conference fees are now available. Do also note that the Early Bird registration deadline is now 15 October 2011.

For all registration inquiries, please contact Roslinda_Rahman@nlb.gov.sg

Hope to see you soon at the conference!

The team at iPRES 2011

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iPRES has evolved into the main international conference on the preservation of digital objects. Having been held annually since 2004 in places all around the world, with iPRES2011 coming up in Singapore in November, and iPRES2012 and iPRES2013 to take place in Toronto and Lisbon, respectively, iPRES is now inviting bids of potential conference hosts to run iPRES 2014, 2015 and 2016.

Potential hosts are invited to submit a proposal for hosting any of the upcoming 3 editions of iPRES. Yet, with iPRES being committed to cover the digital preservation community as well as possible, we will aim at giving preference to the following regions for the annual editions as follows if all other qualitative aspects of two competing bids are equal:

2014: preferably Asia/Oceania
2015: preferably from the Americas
2016: preferably from Europe and/or Africa
However, potential hosts are invited to indicate, whether they would prefer to see their bid limited to a specific year, or whether they would, in principle, be willing to host iPRES in any or two of the three years that the call is currently open for.

Bids should follow the guidelines outlined in the "Guidelines for preparing bids to host iPRES":

http://ipres-conference.org/ipres/fileadmin/media/iPRES_guidelines_for_bidding.pdf

Bids need to be submitted by October 16 2011, 12:00 pm GMT by email to rauber@ifs.tuwien.ac.at indicating "iPRES hosting bid" in the subject line.

For questions, please contact the chair of the iPRES Steering Group at rauber@ifs.tuwien.ac.at

For comments and suggestions on the iPRES series, please contact ipres-info(at)ipres-conference.org.

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iPRES, the main international conference on digital preservation, is calling for proposals for original short papers, panels, workshops, posters and demonstrations.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Domain-specific Challenges ( Cultural Heritage, Technical and ScientificProcesses and Data, Engineering Models and Simulation, Medical Records, Corporate Processes and Recordkeeping, Web Archiving, Personal Archiving, e-Procurement, etc.)
• Systems Life-cycle ( Requirements, Modeling, Design, Development, Deployment and Maintenance)
• Trusted Repositories and Governance ( Risk Analysis, Planning, Audit and Certification, Business Models, Cost Estimation, etc.)
• Case Studies and Best Practices ( Processes, Metadata, Systems, Services, Infrastructures, etc.)
• Innovation in Digital Preservation ( Novel Challenges and Scenarios, Innovative Approaches)
• Added-value of Digital Preservation (Emerging Exploitation Scenarios and the Long-Tail of Digital Repositories and Archives)
• Training and Education
• Theory of Digital Preservation

For more information on the format of submissions and list of important dates, kindly refer to Call for Contributors.

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