4th SEEDI conference

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    The fourth SEEDI conference  will be held under the auspices of the
      Committee for digitization of the UNESCO commission of Serbia.

                            SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

                        The Fourth SEEDI Conference
              Digitization of cultural and scientific heritage
                    Belgrade, Serbia, June 12-15, 2008

 The deadline for submission of abstracts is extended: April 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 other parties 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.


 ACTIVITIES

 Plenary sessions, invited lectures and round tables will be held in the frame
 of the Conference and, this year, a satellite workshop on the Text Encoding
 Initiative will be organized during the conference, too.


 WORKSHOP "TRANSCRIBING AND DESCRIBING PRIMARY SOURCES USING TEI-CONFORMANT XML"

 This course focuses on the transcription and description of manuscripts and
 other types of primary sources. Topics covered will include the encoding of
 features such as text structure and document layout, scribal errors and
 omissions, editorial emendations, the expansion of abbreviations and so on, as
 well as the provision of metadata using the new modules available in TEI P5 for
 source description and the encoding of personal and place names. More
 information on the TEI is available on the TEI website: www.tei-c.org.

 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.


 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.

 Papers prepared according to the requirements for manuscript preparation
 of The Review of NCD
 (http://www.ncd.matf.bg.ac.yu/conferences/en/InstrForAuthors.html) should
 be submitted to Program Committee as attachments in PDF via email to
 ncd at matf.bg.ac.yu (subject line: Belgrade 2008, submission). Authors of
 the accepted papers are expected to attend the conference and make oral
 presentations.

 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,
 (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 Herzegovina)
 Umit Atabek (Turkey)
 Boris Badurina (Croatia)
 Jelena Djurovic (Montenegro)
 Milena Dobreva (Bulgaria)
 Matthew Driscoll (Denmark)
 Nikola Ikonomov (Bulgaria)
 Miomir Korac (Serbia)
 Smile Markovski (Macedonia)
 Zoran Ognjanovic (Serbia)
 Anka Rapeanu (Romania)
 Nenad Tasic (Serbia)


 IMPORTANT DATES

 April 15, 2008:      Abstracts submission
 May 1, 2008:         Papers submission
 May 15, 2008:       Authors notification
 June 1, 2008:       Final papers 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.