South-Eastern European Digitization Initiative

Dear Colleagues,

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

The First SEEDI Conference
DIGITAL (re-)DISCOVERY of CULTURE (PHYSICALITY OF SOUL)
- Playing. Digital -

SEEDI

The SEEDI is an effort to develop awareness about digitization of cultural and scientific heritage in the South-Eastern European countries and to bring together researchers having similar scientific and practical interest in digitization and to support cooperation between them.

CONFERENCE TOPICS and WORKSHOPS

There will be 4 Conference topics:

  1. DANCE
  2. MUSIC (SINGING with/without instruments, SIGN LANGUAGE)
  3. PLAYING (EDUTAINMENT)
  4. MANUSCRIPTS

Each topic will have one invited speaker (45 mins) and some ordinary speakers (up to 30 mins). Each topic will have a program person. So far, it is accepted that the program person for the DANCE-section is:

On the day before the conference there will be optional workshops in each theme. The person who will organize the workshop on Edutaiment is

    Sotirova, Kalina kalina@cc.bas.bg, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia, Bulgaria

CONFERENCE DATE

It is planed that Conference will be organized during the last week of August or the first week of September 2005. To allow for "cheap" air flights etc., participants should arrive on Saturday, while the departure should be on Thursday. So, Conference will last 5 (hotel) days.

VENUE

It is planed that Conference will take place in Ohrid, Macedonia.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Currently the OC consists of:

  • De Francesco, Giuliana defrancesco@beniculturali.it Minerva project, Ministry for cultural heritage, Roma, Italy
  • Kostovska, Vesna istorijanamj@yahoo.com Institute of History of Macedonian Language, Skopje, Macedonia
  • Mac An Airchinnigh, Micheal mmaa@eircom.net Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
  • Markovski, Smile smile@ii.edu.mk Institute of Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, Skopje, Macedonia
  • Mijajlovic, Zarko zarkom@eunet.yu Faculty of Mathematics, Belgrade, Serbian and Montenegro
  • Ognjanovic, Zoran zorano@mi.sanu.ac.yu Mathematical Institute of Serbian Academy of Science and Arts
  • Sotirova, Kalina kalina@cc.bas.bg Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia, Bulgaria

PROGRAM

The Conference will have plenary sessions, invited lectures, round tables and cultural and social events. The workshops will take place on Sunday, the Conference on Monday and Tuesday, the Conference dinner will be on Tuesday, while on Wednesday there will be extended cultural and social events. Every working day will consist of two sessions: Morning (10-13) and Afternoon (16-19) with coffee/tea/water/rakia breaks.

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 and Montenegro.

FUNDING

Anyone who gets some practical ideas on this topic is welcome.

FURTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

Further announcements will be sent to the SEEDI-mailing list. To register to the list it is enough to send an e-mail message to

without any subject while in the body of the message should be only the following text:
    subscribe seedi

SUGGESTIONS

All suggestions and comments are welcome. Please, send us your ideas about possible invited speakers and program persons (and of course - FUNDING) etc., to seedi@matf.bg.ac.yu (preferably) and/or to any of the above e-mail addresses of the people from the Organizing Committee.

DEAR COLLEAGUES, IF YOU LIKE PLAYING - LET'S PLAY TOGETHER.