With apologies for any cross posting.
Information Access to Cultural Heritage (IACH) workshop
http://www.lsi.uned.es/IACH2008/
September 18, 2008, Aarhus, Denmark.
Organised in conjunction with the 12th European Conference On Research
And Advanced Technology For Digital Libraries (ECDL 2008)
http://www.ecdl2008.org
The Information Access to Cultural Heritage (IACH) workshop held in
conjunction with ECDL 2008 will bring together academics carrying out
research in the area of information access and practitioners working in
the cultural heritage field. The goal of the workshop is promoting
exchange of ideas concerning creation, curation, storage, retrieval and
use of cultural heritage information. In particular, the workshop will
focus on the question of how the keepers of cultural heritage resources
can improve information access by applying information technology and
principles currently being developed in the area of information access.
Following current trends, users are actively engaging with cultural
heritage on the web, prompting heritage institutions to stimulate
communities to grow around them. The workshop places an additional
emphasis on active user participation, which creates new modes of access
and contextualisation. These are challenging developments for cultural
heritage organisations, due both to the variety and richness of cultural
heritage resources and to the diverse range of users with varying
information needs and search behaviours.
We welcome the submission of poster papers, position papers (for panel
participation) and extended abstracts (i.e., proposals for full papers)
which should be written in English and prepared according to the
Springer LNCS format guidelines. Submissions should be a maximum of 2
pages and manuscripts should be in PDF format. For further information,
see http://www.lsi.uned.es/IACH2008/
Issues in the scope of the workshop include:
1. Emerging communities of users of cultural heritage information
* User generated content and metadata
* Online user communities
* Drawing in wider audiences for cultural heritage collections
* Understanding and modeling diverse user needs
* User interaction and interface design
* Visualization of cultural heritage resources
2. Information retrieval technology for improved access to cultural
heritage resources
* Exploiting user contributions in the representation and indexing
of cultural heritage information
* Retrieval of structured and unstructured text
* Multimedia retrieval (images, video, audio,...)
* Access to distributed repositories
* Access to multilingual resources
* Evaluation and test collections
3. Innovative solutions for accessing cultural heritage on-line
* Case studies
4. Panel session focused on identifying key challenges facing access to
cultural information today.
* Position papers
Important Dates:
Call for papers: April 8, 2008
Abstracts for full length papers: June 8, 2008
Full Poster Papers/Full Position papers due: June 8, 2008
Notification: July 8, 2008
Final version full Papers due: August 18, 2008
Workshop: September 18, 2008
with best regards,
The IACH Organising Committee
Martha Larson, University of Amsterdam
Johan Oomen, Sound & Vision,
Kate Fernie
Juan Manuel Cigarren Recuero, UNED
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Kate Fernie
ICT Adviser (EU Projects)
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