The VAST 2011 Conference had originally been planned to take place in Alexandria, Egypt, but, with the agreement of the local organizers, in recognition of the difficult situation in the North African Region that might discourage a wide attendance, the Symposium has been relocated to Prato (Italy), at the local university, on the same dates as originally planned, i.e. from 18 October 2011 to 21 October 2011.

The call for papers is now open until the 5th June, with the organisers seeking contributions that advance the state of the art in the technologies available to support cultural heritage. In particular:

• 2/3/4D data capture and processing in Cultural Heritage
• Augmentation of physical collections with digital presentations
• Data acquisition technologies
• Digital Libraries
• Digital capture and annotation of intangible heritage (performance, audio, dance, oral)
• Interactive environments and applications for Cultural Heritage
• Long term preservation of digital artefacts
• Metadata, classification schema, ontologies and semantic processing
• Multilingual applications, tools and systems for Cultural Heritage
• Multimedia data acquisition, management and archiving
• Multi-modal interfaces and rendering for Cultural Heritage
• On-site and remotely sensed data collection
• Professional and ethical guidelines
• Semantics applications to Cultural Heritage
• Serious games in Cultural Heritage
• Standards and documentation
• Storytelling and design of heritage communications
• Tools for education and training in Cultural Heritage
• Usability, effectiveness and interface design for Cultural Heritage
• Visualization

Other relevant works concerning the application of information technologies to Cultural Heritage, not explicitly included in the above categories, are also welcome for submission.

The following types of contributions, all peer-reviewed, are called for:

• Full research papers presenting new innovative results: these papers will be published by Eurographics in the EG Symposium Series (ISSN 1881-864X).
• Project papers focusing on on-going projects, the description of project organization, use of technology, and lesson learned, but not necessarily involving innovative technical content. These papers will have an oral presentation and will be included in a "Projects & Short Papers" proceedings volume.
• Short papers presenting preliminary results and works-in-progress. These papers will have an oral presentation and will be published in the "Projects & Short Papers" proceedings volume.
• Posters, presenting a “work-in-progress” project visually. Accepted posters will be displayed in the areas used during confrence breaks to provide more information regarding a project. Authors of project and short papers will also have the option of presenting a poster
• Tutorials and Workshops: half-day and full-day working sessions that provide an opportunity to educate and share on key topics of interest face-to-face. Suitable tutorial documentation will be published in the "Projects & Short Papers" proceedings volume. Workshops that provide supplementary material in time for the CD-ROM printing will also be included. Authors of accepted tutorials and workshops who wish to produce suitably complete material may be given the option of producing a separate publication if funding can be secured

For more information see: http://www.vast-conference.eu/2011/call_for_papers