18 Gennaio 2023
Call for Papers – 2023 IEEE CSR Workshop on Dependability and Resilience in Digital Cultural Heritage Ecosystems (DR-DCHE)
July 31 / 2 August, 2023 – Hybrid Event
In the last decades, due to the digital transition, a vast part of the world’s cultural heritage has been transformed into complex structured and unstructured digital data, information and knowledge now referred to as Digital Heritage Assets (DHAs). Such assets represent a key factor in the development of the European Social and Cultural Innovation sector as well as the GLAMs, Digital Humanities and the Heritage Science fields.The whole of these DHAs stored in public or private cloud clouds or servers is defined as Data Space, and together with all the stakeholders involved in the various phases of the DHA lifecycle (content creators, aggregators, publishers, data centers, services and research infrastructures etc.) compose the so called Digital Cultural Heritage Ecosystem (DCHE).
Due to the relevance of the DHAs for the definition and representation of cultural, national and social identities, the repositories in which they are stored become – in some sense – the caretakers of the collective heritage of a country, region etc., with the mission of preserving tangible and intangible aspects related to its culture, eventually allowing the possibility to reconstruct its historical journey. Within a DCHE, DHAs are generated by organizations and flow across multiple jurisdictions under different and uncertain custody, control, policies, techniques, vulnerabilities, etc. and with the increasing use of automated techniques and agents to make decisions around and through such assets.
However, as both the value and the attack surface of the DHAs are increasing, the possibility for them to become the target of an attack is increasing as well. In fact, the threats posed by terrorism and war are multidimensional. Attackers become more flexible and adaptable, able to carry out attacks on different targets. The need to move the protection of cultural heritage to a new level had been already mentioned in the Communication on Critical Infrastructure Protection in the Fight against Terrorism by the European Commission back in 2004, where a definition of critical infrastructure that included cultural and natural heritage had been provided. Thus, it is necessary to manage DCHE and the related DHAs as a critical infrastructure sustaining their dependability and resilience against unwanted disruption events.
The Workshop aims to collect novel approaches, research technologies, best practices and Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) on the management of Digital Cultural Heritage Ecosystem and the related complex DHAs to be treated as critical infrastructures.
A researcher of IGSG, Ginevra Peruginelli, is member of the Program Committee.
Topics of Interest
Prospective authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished contributions from a broad range of topics, which include but are not limited to the following:
• Custody, Provenance, Authenticity
• Complex Data formats
• Ontologies, Knowledge graph
• Decision Support Systems
• MetaData formats and quality
• Digital Forensics
• Digital preservation
• Trusted digital repositories
• Data privacy and security
• Persistent Identifiers
• Digital Identity
• Open Archives Security
• Reputation and Trust Management Systems
• FAIR Data
• Digital Right Management
• Cryptography
• Blockchain/DLT
• Data Integrity, Confidentiality
• Data Protection, Risk Mitigation
• Trust and Anti-Counterfeiting
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: March 15, 2023 AoE
Authors’ notification: April 1, 2023 AoE
Camera-ready submission: April 15, 2023 AoE
Early registration deadline: May 5, 2023 AoE
Workshop date: July 29, 2023
Submission Guidelines
The workshop’s proceedings will be published by IEEE and will be included in IEEE Xplore. The guidelines for authors, manuscript preparation guidelines, and policies of the IEEE CSR conference are applicable to MCS 2022 workshop. Please visit the authors’ instructions page for more details. When submitting your manuscript via the conference management system, please make sure that the workshop’s track 2T8 DR-DCHE is selected in the Topic Areas drop down list.