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International Symposium on XML for the Long Haul

Issues in the Long-term Preservation of XML

August 2, 2010

Montreal, QC, Canada

Information Technology

Host: Hotel Europa
Homepage: http://www.balisage.net/longhaul/index.html
Email: info@balisage.net

Organizers: Mulberry Technologies, Inc. Black Mesa Technologies LLC

Deadline for abstracts: April 16, 2010

Description:
People who create, store, query, or serve XML expect it to live a very long time. In this one-day symposium we will discuss how we can 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a useful lifetime measured in years or decades; cultural-heritage material, scientific data, governmental data, and historical documents need to be preserved for centuries; information about nuclear waste products will remain relevant for hundreds of millennia.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. Does it suffice to free our data from dependency on specific platforms or applications? Or is more needed? We will discuss what we doing and what we should be doing to help our information survive.

Mail Address:

XML for the Long Haul
c/o Mulberry Technologies, Inc.
17 West Jefferson Street, Suite 207
Rockville, MD 20850
USA

+1 301 315 9631

Submitted by: Tommie Usdin
Date received: March 12, 2010


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