SEEDI Conference Belgrade 2008

[Bojan Marinkovic]

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT


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Dear Colleagues,

with this message I would like to inform you about the initiative on
organizing

                      The Forth SEEDI Conference
          Digitization of cultural and scientific heritage
                        June 12-15, 2008

SEEDI

SEEDI (http://www.ncd.matf.bg.ac.yu/seedi/ ) is an international effort to
develop awareness about digitization of cultural and scientific heritage
in the South-Eastern European countries and
to bring together:

- Archivists, librarians and curators responsible for the preservation of
and permanent access to cultural and scientific heritage;

- Information technology researchers developing projects on digitization
of cultural and scientific heritage,

- Scholars in the arts and humanities, social sciences, history and
computer science, students and all the other interested in digitization of
cultural
and scientific heritage.


ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

The aim of the Conference is to present and exchange experiences with new
information technologies, standards and the other fields in the area of
digitization of cultural and scientific heritage, including, but not
limited to:

- digital capture and transformation from analogue to digital form,

- describing and representations of heritage objects and documentation
about them,

- processing of digitized content,

- presentation and long term preservation of digitized content.

The conference will have a satellite workshop on the Text Encoding
Initiative.


ACTIVITIES

The Conference will have plenary sessions, invited lectures and round
tables.

This year a satellite workshop on the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI,
http://www.tei-c.org/) will be organized during the conference. The
lectures will be given by some of the leading experts in the field. The
workshop is intended to collect young scholars from the region interested
in this aspect of digitization. The organizers will try to cover travel
and local expenses for (some of) the participants. More information about
the workshop and application procedure to obtain a grant will be announced
in the second call.


CALL FOR PAPERS AND REGISTRATION

Contributions related to all aspects of digitization of cultural and
scientific heritage are encouraged. Papers that report on applications of
information technologies in the field of digitization are particularly
welcome.


CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Presented papers, selected after a review by the international editorial
board, will be published in the Review of the National Center for
Digitization, Serbia (http://www.ncd.matf.bg.ac.yu/?page=publications&lang=en).


CONFERENCE VENUE

The Conference will take place in Belgrade, Serbia.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Zarko Mijajlovic (Serbia), Conference Chairman
Dzenana Aladjuz (Bosnia and Hercegovina)
Umit Atabek (Turkey)
Boris Badurina (Croatia)
Jelena Djurovic (Montenegro)
Milena Dobreva (Bulgaria)
Matthew Driscoll (Danmark)
Nikola Ikonomov (Bulgaria)
Miomir Korac (Serbia)
Smile Markovski (Macedonia)
Zoran Ognjanovic (Serbia)
Anka Rapeanu (Romania)
Nenad Tasic (Serbia)


IMPORTANT DATES

Mart, 2008: Second announcement
April 1, 2008: Abstracts submission
May 1, 2008: Papers submission
May 15, 2008: Authors notification
June 1, 2008: Final paper submission and Registration


SUGGESTIONS

All suggestions and comments are welcome. Please, send us your ideas about
possible invited speakers to ncd at matf.bg.ac.yu.