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The fourth SEEDI conference will be held under the auspices of the
This conference is in honor of the 200th anniversary of
SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT
The Fourth SEEDI Conference
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:
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 CONFERENCE VENUE The Conference will take
place in PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Žarko Mijajlović (Serbia),
Conference Chairman Dženana Alađuz (Bosnia and
Herzegovina) Umit Atabek ( Boris Badurina
( Jelena Đurović ( Milena Dobreva ( Matthew Driscoll ( Nikola Ikonomov ( Miomir Korać ( Smile Markovski
( Zoran Ognjanović ( Anka Rapeanu ( Nenad Tasić ( Mathematical Faculty, Belgrade Mathematical Institute SANU April 15, 2008:
Abstracts submission May 1, 2008:
Papers submission May 15, 2008:
Authors notification June 1, 2008:
Final papers submission and Registration 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. |