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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: 31st January 2013
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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.

Deadlines:
-- Submission of papers to the General Track: 31 January 2013
-- Submission of papers to the Workshops/Sessions: 31 January 2013
-- Response to the Authors: 15 February 2013
-- Camera ready version in PDF with the correct Springer format: 28 
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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Ing. Michela Paolucci
DISIT-DSI
Department of Systems and Informatics
Distributed Systems and Internet Technology Lab
University of Florence
Via S. Marta 3
50139 Firenze
Italy

http://www.disit.dsi.unifi.it/
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