seedi 2009

[Bojan Marinkovic]

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                       The Fifth SEEDI Conference
             Digitization of cultural and scientific heritage
                    Banja Luka, Bosna i Hercegovina
                          September 9-13, 2009



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.



ACTIVITIES

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


CALL FOR PAPERS

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. The proposed papers will be selected by the
Program committee.


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 Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia
and Hercegovina.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Dzenana Aladjuz (Bosnia and Hercegovina)
Umit Atabek (Turkey)
Boris Badurina (Croatia)
Nicolae Constantinescu (Romania)
Jelena Djurovic (Montenegro)
Milena Dobreva (Bulgaria)
Nikola Ikonomov (Bulgaria)
Smile Markovski (Macedonia)
Zarko Mijajlovic (Serbia)
Zoran Ognjanovic (Serbia)
Nada Puvacic (Bosnia and Hercegovina)
Ranko Risojevic (Bosnia and Hercegovina)



IMPORTANT DATES

April,  2009:   Second announcement
May 1,  2009:   Abstracts submission
May 15, 2009:   Papers submission
June 1, 2009:   Authors notification
July 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.