[game_preservation] Call for Contributions/Participation: Emulation Workshop on iPres2012

[Mark Guttenbrunner]

FYI: On the annual international conference on preservation of digital 
objects (iPres) to be held in Toronto, Canada this year we are 
organizing a workshop on emulation. Video game preservation is 
specifically included in the list of topics we are looking for on the 
website of the workshop.  If you are in the area or coming to iPres 
anyways, please consider submitting something to the workshop !

best,
Mark


      Call for Contributions/Participation:
      Towards Practical Emulation Tools and Strategies

State of the Art Research Meets Real-World Requirements
Workshop  @ IPRES 2012 Oct. 1. 2012 Toronto, Canada

The full-day iPRES 2012 workshop features an increasingly relevant topic
in DP research - emulation. While emulation is now widely accepted as a
necessary access strategy, mature software frameworks and workflows are
still missing. The workshop provides the opportunity to present latest
research results, status quo of emulation application and use cases.

The workshop is intended to provide an additional forum for experts
in emulation alongside the main conference to discuss current trends,
today's  strategies and formulate future implementation and research
agendas. Content holders will be given a platform to describe their
challenges with complex data-objects to align research with practical
problems. The workshop will be split into two sessions. The first one
will give a broad overview on the field and summarize the state-of-the-
art in this field through short  presentations from three domains: tech-
nical research in emulation, ongoing projects, and current challenges.
The second session will extend upon this by structuring and prioritizing
the future research agenda and  implementation of tools.

Workshop Topics / Agenda

Solutions, Research Concepts and Prototypes
* Workflows
* Frameworks
* Meta-Data
* Sustainable emulators
* Quality Assurance
Use-Cases and Requirements
* Challenging Use-Cases
* Integration
* Software archiving and legal aspects
* Sustainable business
* Legal issues

Contributions & Submission
We ask professionals and researchers in this field to submit an exten-
ded abstract (~1000 words) confirming to the ACM SIG template covering
topics related to emulation in the following formats:
* Either a description of a use case for which they intend to / already
use emulation to solve a problem and would like to get input from collegues
working in emulation research
* A description of your current ongoing scientific research related to 
emulation

Submission of the extended abstract to emulationws2012 at rz.uni-freiburg.de
The accepted submissions will be distributed to the workshop 
participants prior
to the workshop to give all participants a chance to prepare for the 
discussions.
We expect that at least one author of each accepted abstract will 
register for
and attend the workshop.

Important Dates
* Submission deadline Sep. 1, 2012
* Notification and detailed agenda, distribution of abstracts to 
participants
       Sep. 15, 2012
* Workshop Oct. 1, 2012

Participation & Registration
Venue and Registration:
https://ipres.ischool.utoronto.ca
Up-to-date information can be found at the workshop website:
http://emulationws2012.wordpress.com

See you in Toronto,
     Mark Guttenbrunner
     Klaus Rechert
     Dirk von Suchodoletz