South-Eastern European Digitization Initiative

The fourth SEEDI conference will be held under the auspices of the
Committee for digitization of the UNESCO commission of Serbia

This conference is in honor of the 200th anniversary of
the University of Belgrade and the Higher Education in Serbia

SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

The Fourth SEEDI Conference
Digitization of cultural and scientific heritage

Belgrade, Serbia, June 12-15, 2008



The deadline for submission of abstracts is extended: April 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 other parties 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

Plenary sessions, invited lectures and round tables will be held in the frame of the Conference and, this year, a satellite workshop on the Text Encoding Initiative will be organized during the conference, too.

 

WORKSHOP "TRANSCRIBING AND DESCRIBING PRIMARY SOURCES USING TEI-CONFORMANT XML"

This course focuses on the transcription and description of manuscripts and other types of primary sources. Topics covered will include the encoding of features such as text structure and document layout, scribal errors and omissions, editorial emendations, the expansion of abbreviations and so on, as well as the provision of metadata using the new modules available in TEI P5 for source description and the encoding of personal and place names. More information on the TEI is available on the TEI website: www.tei-c.org.

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.

 

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.

Papers prepared according to the requirements for manuscript preparation of The Review of the National Center for Digitization (http://www.ncd.matf.bg.ac.yu/conferences/en/InstrForAuthors.html) should be submitted to Program Committee as attachments in PDF via email to ncd@matf.bg.ac.yu (subject line: Belgrade 2008, submission). Authors of the accepted papers are expected to attend the conference and make oral presentations.

 

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, (http://www.ncd.matf.bg.ac.yu/?page=publications&lang=en).

 

CONFERENCE VENUE

The Conference will take place in Belgrade, Serbia.

 

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Žarko Mijajlović (Serbia), Conference Chairman

Dženana Alađuz (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Umit Atabek (Turkey)

Boris Badurina (Croatia)

Jelena Đurović (Montenegro)

Milena Dobreva (Bulgaria)

Matthew Driscoll (Denmark)

Nikola Ikonomov (Bulgaria)

Miomir Korać (Serbia)

Smile Markovski (Macedonia)

Zoran Ognjanović (Serbia)

Anka Rapeanu (Romania)

Nenad Tasić (Serbia)

 

ORGANIZERS

Mathematical Faculty, Belgrade

Mathematical Institute SANU

 

IMPORTANT DATES

April 15, 2008:      Abstracts submission

May 1, 2008:         Papers submission

May 15, 2008:      Authors notification

June 1, 2008:        Final papers submission and Registration

 

INVITED SPEAKERS

Ahmed N. Tantawy, The Eternal Egypt Project - IBM Innovation in the Digitization of Heritage

Sreten Ugričić, Culture as Dematerialization

Milena Dobreva

Darko Jevremović, Serbian Virtual Observatory

 

SUGGESTIONS

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