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ECLAP 2013
Conference on Information Technologies for
Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment
8-10 April 2013
ESMAE/Teatro Helena Sá e Costa - Porto (Portugal)
Rua da Alegria, 503 - 4000-045 Porto (Portugal)
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Conference web page: http://www.eclap.eu/eclap2013
Call for Papers, Deadline EXTENDED: 11 February 2013

In response to great demand the deadline for
submission of proposals for presentations at the
ECLAP 2013 Conference has been extended to February 11
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The Information Technology age has facilitated
many significant changes in the field of cultural
heritage and continues to be a dynamic and
exciting forum for the emergence of new
possibilities. This wave of change has had
particularly significant consequences in the
field of the Performing Arts, where the vast
potential for digital content and new information
technology exploitation continues to reveal
itself, opening the doors to new and
as-yet-unexplored synergies. Many technological
developments concerning digital libraries, media
entertainment, and education are now fully
developed and ready to be exported, applied,
utilized, and cultivated by the public.
In the spirit of this vibrant environment, ECLAP
is pleased to announce the 2013 Conference on
Information Technologies for Performing Arts,
Media Access and Entertainment. Established by
co-funding from the European Commission
(ICT-PSP), ECLAP is a Best Practice Network that
aims to create a network of experts and media
access service for performing arts institutions
in Europe, along with an e-library for the performing arts.

The ECLAP 2013 conference is open to researchers,
professionals, industries, institutions,
technicians, and practitioners in the area of
performing arts and information technologies,
media entertainment, technology enhanced
learning, intelligent media systems, acoustic
systems, cultural heritage, open data, content
management, semantic models, metadata standards,
and many others. The ECLAP conference aims to
create a forum in which progress-oriented
individuals and institutions within the
aforementioned professions can find a place to
collaborate and present results. We cordially
invite all interested groups and individuals to
submit proposals for sessions within the event,
sessions, papers, posters and exhibitions. Each
exhibition session offers space (booths and
tables) to host demonstrators. Demo and poster sessions will also be organized.

The ECLAP 2013 conference will confirm a
keynote-speaker lineup consisting of some of the
most salient voices in the field and is currently
looking to put together a set of sessions and
panels that will conform to a standard of
excellence. The conference will comprise selected
top-level papers, which will be published
complete with ISBN and largely indexed via
Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LNCS) series, and promoted in the most relevant indexing engines.

Topics of the General track on Performing Arts,
Media Access and Entertainment include, but are not limited to:
-- Media Annotations and tagging, solutions and interfaces
-- Media grid processing and semantic computing
-- Social media technologies and solutions
-- Cross media and multimedia mining
-- Mobile solutions and tools
-- Multimodal interactive systems
-- Recommendations and suggestions, collective intelligence
-- Video analysis, indexing and summarization
-- Collaborative and cooperative systems
-- Multilingual and natural language processing
-- Content digitisation & preservation practices
-- Content production models and tools
-- Linked Open Data, aggregated media
-- Indexing and search, filtering, information retrieval, Emotion analysis
-- Metadata quality, mapping and ingestion models and tools
-- Cloud based solutions
-- Production, Consumption, Creative Reuse of digital content
-- Creative technologies for cultural Heritage
-- Live Performance technologies and solutions
-- Audio processing and tools for large events and installations
-- 3D and 4D technologies and tools
-- Augmented reality solutions
-- IPR management systems
-- Business models
-- Data and media protection

Submissions should be original and not submitted
and/or published in other journals or
conferences. The ECLAP Program Committee members
will review the proposals (papers, posters,
exhibitions) and select the ones for
presentation. Only the papers selected by the
Program Committee will be presented at the ECLAP
2013 conference and published in the conference proceedings.

The submission has to be performed by uploading
in PDF format to the OCS Springer system [LINK:
http://senldogo0039.springer-sbm.com/ocs/home/ECLAP2013
]. REGISTRATION IS NEEDED.

Deadlines EXTENDED:
-- Submission of papers to the General Track: 11 February 2013
-- Submission of papers to the Workshops/Sessions: 11 February 2013
-- Conference: 8-10 April 2013

For info: [log in to unmask] or visit the ECLAP portal
http://www.eclap.eu or main conference page: http://www.eclap.eu/eclap2013.


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Prof. Paolo Nesi, Ph.D.
University of Florence
DISIT-DSI, Department of Systems and Informatics
Distributed Systems and Internet Technology Lab
Via S. Marta 3, 50139 Firenze, Italy

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