"1st International Workshop on STAR" to be held 26th April

The Multimedia Signal Processing Group of EPFL and Ecma International are happy to announce the “1st International Workshop on Standards and Technologies in Multimedia Archives and Records (STAR)" to be held 26th 27th April 2010, at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland

The ability to effectively manage and protect digital multimedia content in creation, collection, preservation, and dissemination is increasingly crucial as digital technology continues to produce vast amounts of valuable and irreplaceable knowledge and information. The amount of such digital multimedia information is already huge, but as we speak it is still growing at unbelievable speed and to gigantic amount of such information. The big questions are: Can data generated yesterday be searchable and displayable by hardware and software today and in future? Will digital content created today be accessible and presentable throughout its lifecycle (i.e. also tomorrow)? How to deal with the large number and quite different incompatible multimedia archives? How to ensure some level of interoperability among them? What are the requirements for multimedia long term archival in general? What do we cover today in standards and what and where are the gaps?

The STAR Workshop takes place just before the “8th European Conference on Digital Archiving – ECA 2010” which will be held from 28th-30th April 2010 in nearby Geneva. STAR is centered on technological, scientific, and standardization challenges around physical and logical archival and preservation of multimedia content. It includes presentations of archival and preservation projects and use cases, user requirements, latest state of the art as well as emerging technologies for archival and preservation, stock takng of current and future standards used and useful in archival and preservation, investigations in standardization gaps, and identification of needed future standardizations.