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                                Call for Papers
                19th International Conference on MultiMedia Modelling
   Special Session on Multimedia Preservation: How to ensure multimedia access over time?

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Introduction

Multimedia data is vital to all domains. Examples range from medical and healthcare
records like CT scans, security applications coping with large GEO-data gathered by
satellites up to the social sector dealing with large collections of photos and videos.
The ability to effectively manage multimedia content and its preservation over time has
become a necessity for both, the business as well as the general public. But what does
digital preservation mean? The American Library Association (ALA) has identified the
main issues related to preservation as follows: “Digital preservation combines policies,
strategies and actions that ensure access to digital content over time”. Although this
initiative is mainly driven by libraries, interoperable access to digital data and its
prevention towards the loss of data by e.g. technology changes affects everyone.

This is especially true by considering recent statistics illustrating the growth of
multimedia data in the area of the social web. For instance, the well known online photo
management and sharing application Flickr hosts 5 billion images and has a
minute-by-minute increase of more than 3000 images . How can this amount of data be
accessed in 50 years despite technological changes? Are recent research achievements
like the Linked Open Data movement suitable to improve current issues of multimedia
preservation? Therefore, technologies, concepts and methodologies are needed to lower
the barrier between systems and to guarantee interoperable access between different
domains. In this context, the special session is planed to bring together researchers
in the field of interoperable multimedia access (e.g., metadata modelling, retrieval)
and semantic extraction (e.g., transmission, coding) on the one side as well as experts in the
area of cultural heritage (e.g., libraries, museums) on the other side.

Regarding this, we expect innovative submissions addressing visionary concepts and
ideas in order to improve the current situation in multimedia preservation.

Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Interoperable multimedia access.
• Interoperable multimedia frameworks.
• Interoperable multimedia storage and exchange formats.
• Linked Open Data for multimedia archives.
• Access policies and digital rights management for audiovisual data.
• Applications and methodologies for the preservation of multimedia items: content and metadata.
• Semantic analysis of cultural heritage and multimedia.
• Efficient access to multimedia repositories (indexing, optimization, query distribution, etc.).
• Open issues on preservation standardization initiatives.
• Interoperable access to professional audiovisual material.
• Workflow management and modeling of preservation processes (BPM, etc.).
• Format obsolescence management: representation and notification

Important Dates:
-> Papers due: 3 August 2012
-> Notification: 21 September 2012
-> Camera-ready paper due: 10 October 2012

Submission Guidelines:
The submission guidelines for the special session are the same as for the main
conference (http://mmm2013.org/). Papers should follow the LNCS format
(see http://www.springer.com/LNCS/ for details).The first page must contain an abstract,
a classification of the topic covered, preferably using the list of topics above.
The length of a paper should not exceed 12 pages. Papers in PDF should be submitted
electronically to the review web site: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/MMM2013/.

Accepted papers will be invited to submit to a special issue of the
Information Science Journal (Elsevier).

Special Session Chairs

• Mario Döller, University of Passau, Germany
• Ken Thibodeau, NIST, USA
• Walter Allasia, EURIX Group, Italy
• Florian Stegmaier, University of Passau, Germany