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First Call for Papers
The First South-Eastern European Digitization Initiative (SEEDI) Conference 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. Culture arises pre-eminently out of playing, education and research. By "playing" we mean the way human creativity expresses itself throughout history. Activities such as dancing, singing, "edutainment" (education through entertainment) and scientific research, and the products associated with them constitute the backbone of the cultural and scientific heritage. The World-Wide Web (WWW) brings people together digitally and creates a force for cultural re- vitalization among local and global communities. In addition to "playing digital" through the WWW, the actual presence and practical outcome (the "physicality of soul") is also necessary to breathe life into culture and civilization. Dancing and singing is a total physicality of soul experience. So is edutainment, which uses the principle that all humans learn by playing and that learning can be fun and serious at the same time. Writing and creating manuscripts is also a work of soul and belongs to the realm of playing. Thanks to the development of digitization techniques and the availability of high-speed networking services, the creativity of humans embodied in digital cultural and scientific objects can be shared world-wide. The digitization of cultural and scientific heritage and its transmission to next generations in the form of digitized dance, music, edutainment, and research materials (e.g., manuscripts) has been of interest to many people with different professional backgrounds. Repositories of digitized resources include not only film, video or audio tapes and notation scores of dance/music performances, educational games, and manuscripts but also photographs, posters (of costume and set designs), press clippings, scrapbooks, 3D artifacts, etc. Dancers, musicians, composers, costume and set designers; computer scientists studying motion capture, analysis, and retrieval of dance patterns, musical pieces and images; developers of different notation systems, software tools, modelling languages, and instructional programs to digitize 3D and 2D dance/music/edutainment materials and manuscripts for archival purposes; content producers, librarians, archivists, museologists; art researchers, manuscripts scholars, dance/music professors, and scientists in general are among the major stakeholders of these repositories who are concerned with preservation of and perpetual access to digital objects contained therein. The SEEDI Programme Committee invites above-mentioned stakeholders to submit theoretical and practical papers, workshops, posters, and demonstrations for the First Conference on the Digital re-Discovery of Culture made manifest through Physicality of Soul. Suggested Conference topics include, but need not be limited to:
and the more general areas covering all aspects of - Playing. Digital. -:
Submission of papers and posters: April 1st, 2005 PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS There will be invited keynote speakers. The author(s) of accepted contributions will be given 30 minutes for their presentation including a 10-minute Q/A period. Presented papers, selected after a review by the international editorial board, will be published in the Conference Proceedings as a separate volume of the Review of the National Center for Digitization, Serbia and Montenegro (http://www.ncd.matf.bg.ac.yu/?page=publications&lang=en). POSTERS Those who wish to present the results of a research project or analytical study or to report on the progress of their ongoing work in any of the conference topics will be afforded the opportunity to present and discuss their work with attendees through poster sessions. Posters selected by the Programme Committee will be displayed in a special area at the Conference and discussed immediately after the respective session. PAPER AND POSTER PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION All information about modality of the submission, and about length and format of the papers and posters, will be given in the Submission Guidelines Section in the next announcement.
Ohrid, Macedonia, is a jewel of the South Eastern "European" region.
DIGITAL (re-)DISCOVERY of CULTURE (PHYSICALITY OF SOUL).
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
The Conference will be of particular interest to all those engaged
in the Digital Preservation of, Access to and Exploitation of Cultural and
Scientific Heritage:
Programme Chair:
Programme Committee Members:
For additional information, please contact Programme Chair, Smile Markovski,
smile@ii.edu.mk
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