The Fifth SEEDI Conference

Digitization of cultural and scientific heritage

May 19-20, 2010

SEEDI

SEEDI (http://seedi.ncd.org.rs/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 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. 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://elib.mi.sanu.ac.rs/pages/browse_publication.php?db=ncd).

CONFERENCE VENUE

The Conference will take place in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Selma Rizvić (Bosnia and Hercegovina),Conference Chairman

Dženana Alađuz (Bosnia and Hercegovina)

Umit Atabek (Turkey)

Boris Badurina (Croatia)

Narcis Behlilović (Bosna i Hercegovina)

Nicolae Constatinescu (Romaina)

Jelena Đurović (Montenegro)

Milena Dobreva (Bulgaria)

Nikola Ikonomov (Bulgaria)

Smile Markovski (Macedonia)

Žarko Mijajlović (Serbia)

Zoran Ognjanović (Serbia)

IMPORTANT DATES

January, 2010: Second announcement

March 1, 2010: Abstracts submission

March 31, 2010: Papers submission

April 10, 2010: Authors notification

May 1, 2010: 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.rs.