Workshop on e-government and digital archives, Munich, Germany

A workshop on e-government and digital archives will take place on 11 September in Munich, Germany.

Topics to be covered include:
- concepts for the workflow (e.g. ingest) and submission of digital e-government documents to the archives (e.g. DOMEA, MoReq2);
- models and standards for long-term archiving (e.g. OAIS - Open Archival Information System; RFC 4998 - Evidence Record Syntax - ERS; RFC 4810 - long-term archive service requirements);
- file formats (e.g. PDF/A, TIFF, XML, container formats, file format
validation);
- metadata, metadata standards;
- authenticity and legal matters for long-term archived documents (e.g. TransiDoc; RFC 3161 Internet X.509 public key infrastructure time-stamp protocol TSP; RFC 3126 electronic signature formats for long term electronic signatures, etc.);
- experiences with digital archives;
- cooperation between members of the archival and computer science community.

The workshop is organised to coincide with the German computer science conference Informatik 2008 (8 to 13 September 2008).For further information, please visit:
http://www.hauptstaatsarchiv.hessen.de/egovda(opens in new window)