Call for Papers: Workshop E-Government and Digital Archives During the German Computer Science conference Informatik 2008, a workshop about EGovernment and Digital Archives is scheduled to take place at the 11th of September 2008. As eGov can also be web sites and web base eGov applications the archiving of them or accessing digital archives via web can be from interest as topic as well I hope you will interested as well. The conference Informatik 2008 will be held in Munich, Germany, September 8-13, 2008. The URL for the conference is http://www.informatik2008.de The Workshop URL is http://www.hauptstaatsarchiv.hessen.de/egovda It is our pleasure to invite all members of the archival and computer science community to submit papers for the workshop. Please note that the submission deadline is April 28. Among others, possible topics could cover: o Concepts for the workflow (e.g., ingest) and submission of digital egovernment documents to the archives (e.g., DOMEA, MoReq2) o 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) o File formats (e.g., PDF/A, TIFF, XML, container formats, file format validation) o Metadata, metadata standards o 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.) o Experiences with digital archives o Cooperation between members of archival and computer science community We are looking forward to receiving your paper contributions. Best regards, Mit freundlichen Grüßen Steffen W. Schilke, E1 Projektleiter Archivierung