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Leading heritage, digital technology, and policy leaders from
around the world in libraries and archives, museums, virtual reality
and multimedia, and heritage documentation and presentation, will
be converging to share ideas, present their latest findings, and
develop new initiatives.
Conference registration, and air and hotel discounts are all now
available on the conference website.
Centred on the key themes of Digital Libraries, Digital Museums,
Digital Recording, and Virtual Systems, some 180 papers have been
selected by an 100-member program committee from over 300 submissions
from across the world. The papers will be available in proceedings,
which will be complimentary with conference registration. The 10
best papers presented at the conference will be published in a Special
Edition of the International Journal of Architectural Computing,
while the 11 special panels and workshops will be published in a
unique book edition to be published in early 2009.
In addition to the many papers, across its multiple days the Conference
will feature 7 plenary talks by leading experts, and a rich variety
of workshops, and special sessions.
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You are kindly invited to submit a paper to the VSMM 2008 joint
conference which will provide an opportunity to exchange research
results, opinions, experiences and proposals on the best practice
and hi-tech tools from Information and Communications Technology
to document, preserve, manage and communicate Cultural Heritage
(CH). The main goal of the event is not only to illustrate the programs
underway but also excellent work wherever it is located and however
it is supported, in order to promote a common approach to the tasks
of e-documentation of World Cultural Heritage. Furthermore, regional
capacities in the area of Cultural Heritage and IT will be facilitated
in advancing their know-how through the exchange of information
and generation of new ideas and cooperation's, where the world meets
the finger prints of several ancient civilizations on earth.
To reach this ambitious goal the topics covered will include experiences
in the use of innovative recording technologies & methods and
how to take best advantage to integrate the results obtained to
build up new tools and/or experiences as well as improved methodologies
for documenting, managing and communicating CH.
The VSMM 2008 joint event will focus on interdisciplinary and multi-
disciplinary research concerning both cutting edge Cultural Heritage
Informatics and use of technology for the representation, documentation,
preservation, archiving and communication of CH knowledge. The scope
includes every phase of CH information technology: initial data
capture/digitization, information/data processing, reconstruction,
visualization and documentation as well as dissemination of results
to the scientific and cultural heritage communities and to the general
public (Multilingua, Multimedia Digital Library). We are also interested
in aspects of the wider legal and ethical responsibilities of Cultural
Heritage Informatics. Research subjects parallel the interests of
VSMM, CIPA, ISPRS and EuroMed including culturally significant monuments,
artefacts and sites as well as the activities of museums, libraries,
archives, and organizations involved with their care.
Abstract for all kind of papers (full/project/short):
June 2nd, 2008
Paper submission for full papers June 16th, 2008
Paper submission for project and short paper June 30th, 2008
Proposals for showcases June 30th, 2008
Notification of Refereeing results July 31st, 2008
Camera ready FULL papers to printer August 24th, 2008
Camera ready SHORT papers to printer August 29th, 2008
Camera ready PROJECT papers to printer August 29th, 2008
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Early registration August 29th, 2008
Registration for Exhibitors September 8th, 2008
Event October 20th - 26th,2008
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