SEEDI conference call for papers

SEEDI (http://seedi.ncd.org.rs/) 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.
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.

Call for papers

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.
Theme suggestions for the Conference:
- coordination and financing of the digitization of cultural heritage at local, national, regional and
European level
- original-digital materials challenges of identification, storage, access
- 3D technology - a key digitization of architectural heritage
- digitization of historical newspapers and journals
- copyright and digitization

Send your abstract and paper submission on following addresses: seedi2011@nsk.hr
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 Zagreb, Republic of Croatia.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Dunja Seiter-Šverko (Croatia), Conference Chairman
Selma Rizvić (Bosnia and Hercegovina), Conference Cochairman
Nikola Ikonomov (Bulgaria)
Milena Dobreva (UK)
Žarko Mijajlović (Serbia)
Zoran Ognjanović (Serbia)

and

ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
Jasen Mesić, (Croatia), Minister of Culture of Republic of Croatia
Stjepan Ćosić, (Croatia), Director, Croatian State Archive
Višnja Zgaga, (Croatia), Director, Museum Documentation Centre
Dunja Seiter-Šverko, (Croatia), Acting Director General, National and University Library in Zagreb