Call for Proposals | deadline May 1, 2023 | DigiPres, 15-16 November, St. Louis, US | Digital Preservation

"...Decay, abandonment, loss, and rot are real world experiences. Evidence of these experiences can lead communities to muster action and resources to support the persistence of memory and maintenance of evidence. Digital forensics, metadata, and critical evaluation can expose some of the gaps in collectively shared digital records, but communities require additional structures to provide evidence for facts, forge emotional connections, and stimulate imagination. What do these structures look like? How do we expose through documentation or description the latent and patent neglect of digital projects, websites, or platforms? What evidence will inform communities about the sea changes in industry and culture? How do we carry forward the fact or memory of networks of connectivity - or of communities bound by time and/or place? The NDSA invites proposals for Digital Preservation 2023: Communities of Time and Place (#DigiPres23)....

Infrastructure

• How do we maintain individual or marginalized stories while finding our way through such an abundance of data?
• How can we draw on current and past maintenance practices to prepare for the potential deluge of artificially generated information? What are the technological and social challenges to the preservation of VR and AR?
• As imperfect as traditional systems of memory maintenance may be, they forged connections for care and maintenance, they inspired and elevated, and they offered routes to understanding a particular time and place. How can we cultivate the persistence of memory through digital preservation?..."