Hi there,
List subscribers may be interested in this conference -
Virtual Systems and Multi-Media 2008. (The announcement says Call for
Participation, but I think its supposed to mean registration!).
I'm giving a Project Paper on the Archives Hub and the
National Archives Network at some point during the
conference.
kind regards,
Jane.
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International
Conference VSMM 2008 - Call for Participation
Digital Heritage: Our
Hi-tech-STORY for the Future
Technologies to Document, Preserve,
Communicate,
and Prevent the Destruction of our Fragile Cultural
Heritage
October 20. - 25th, 2008
Limassol,
Cyprus
http://www.vsmm2008.org --------------------------------------------------
Dear
Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that registration is now
open for the 14th
International Conference on Virtual Systems and
Multimedia - VSMM2008:
"Digital Heritage 2.0: Our Hi-tech-story for
the Future".
Technologies to Document, Preserve,
Communicate,
and Prevent the Destruction of our Fragile Cultural
Heritage
The conference, held under the Patronage of H.E. the
President of the
Republic of Cyprus and UNESCO, will take place in the
5-star beachfront
Amathus Hotel in Limassol, Cyprus from October
20-25th, 2008.
Leading heritage, digital technology, and policy
leaders from around the
world in libraries and archives, museums,
virtual reality and multimedia,
and heritage documentation and
presentation, will be converging to share
ideas, present their latest
findings, and develop new initiatives.
Conference registration, and
air and hotel discounts are all now available
on the conference website
http://www.vsmm2008.org Centered on the key themes of Digital Libraries, Digital Museums,
Digital
Recording, and Virtual Systems, some 180 papers have been
selected by a
100-member program committee from over 300 submissions
from across the
world. The papers will be available in
proceedings, which will be
complimentary with conference
registration. The 10 best papers presented at
the conference will
be published in a Special Edition of the International
Journal of
Architectural Computing, while the 11 special panels and
workshops will
be published in a unique book edition to be published in
early
2009.
In addition to the many papers, across its multiple days the
Conference will
feature 7 plenary talks by leading experts, and a rich
variety of workshops,
and special sessions.
Conference
Highlights:
Digital Heritage Information: Libraries and
Archives
Keynotes
i2010 Digital Libraries'
Initiative - Europe's Cultural Heritage at the
Click of a
Mouse
Javier Hernandez-Ros, Head of Unit, Information Society &
Media DG, The
European Commission
The World Digital
Library Initiative
Dr. John Van Oudenaren, Director, World Digital
Library, The Library of
Congress
Panels
& Workshops
. Open Content - Maximizing Usability of Digital
Heritage (Alexandria
Archive)
. Archives Infrastructure for
Digitized Cultural Content in Europe (Rob
Davies, Romana
Krizova)
. Multilingual & Multimedia Access to Cultural Heritage
Digital Objects (the
EU MultiMatch Project)
. The EU Michael /
Minerva Projects (Rosella Caffo, Italian Ministry
of
Culture)
. Preparing the Cultural Heritage Research Agenda
of Tomorrow ( Sorin
Hermon, EU Cultural Heritage Informatics Research
Oriented Network)
Digital Museums, Interpretation and
Presentation
Keynote
Libraries, Monuments, Archives,
Museums: European heritage facing the
digital challenge, Prof. Massimo
Negri, Director, European Museum Forum and
Board of the European
Digital Library
Showcases &
Panels
. NODEM: Nordic Excellence in Digital Museums (Halina Gottlieb,
The
Interactive Institute)
. COINS: Automated tools to trace
stolen collections (Franco Niccolucci, EU
COINS Project)
.
EPOCH KnowHow Books: Knowledge Transfer (Halina Gottlieb &
Daniel
Pletinckx, EPOCH Project)
Digital Heritage
Documentation
Keynote
The Acropolis of Athens:
From Ancient Greece to the Digital Age, Vassilios
Tsingas, Elliniki
Photogrammetriki Ltd
Workshops and Panels
. Terrestrial
Laser Scanning Essentials (Andreas Georgopoulos, National
Tech. Univ.
of Athens)
. Digital Tools for Recording Heritage Places (Mario
Santana, KU Leuven)
Virtual Systems and
Multimedia
Keynote
Designing the Digital
Imaginary: a Convergence of Art and Supercomputer
Science, Prof. Donna
J. Cox, Advanced Visualization Laboratory, National
Center for
Supercomputing Applications, Univ. of Illinois
at
Urbana-Champagne
Panels and Workshops
.
Virtual Reality: Communities and 3D Worlds (Maurizio Forte and Lily
Diaz)
. FocusK3D: Promoting Semantic 3D Media (Manolis Vavalis, Marios
Pitikakis)