The Fourth 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

Žarko Mijajlović (Serbia), Conference Chairman

Dženana Alađuz (Bosnia and Hercegovina)

Umit Atabek (Turkey)

Boris Badurina (Croatia)

Jelena Đurović (Montenegro)

Milena Dobreva (Bulgaria)

Matthew Driscoll (Danmark)

Nikola Ikonomov (Bulgaria)

Miomir Korać (Serbia)

Smile Markovski (Macedonia)

Zoran Ognjanović (Serbia)

Anka Rapeanu (Romania)

Nenad Tasić (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 papers submission and Registration

SUGGESTIONS

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