The overall goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for researchers to sharing original ideas, discussing and refining future research challenges in digital longevity of big scientific data in different application domains.

Topics of interest

The topics of interest for LOPS include, but are not limited to:

- Scientific data storage for long term digital preservation
- Long term experiments and simulation representation
- Long term data preservation for scientific workflows
- Accessing long term digitalized scientific data
- Data quality of long term digital preservation
- Privacy and security of scientific data
- Re-using approaches for scientific data
- Data Provenance for long term digital preservation
- Semantic to scientific data for long term digital preservation

Important dates

- Submission deadline: November 10, 2013
- Author notification: December 13, 2013
- Camera-ready papers due: December 20, 2013
- Workshop date: March 31 / April 4, 2014