Event date May 15-16, 2013
Description
The aim of the Conference is to present and exchange experiences in different fields and area of digitisation of cultural and scientific heritage.
SEEDI (South-Eastern European Digitisation Initiative) (http://seedi.ncd.org.rs/) is an international effort to develop competence in digitisation, access and preservation of cultural and scientific heritage in South-Eastern European countries that aims to:
- Build awareness about digitisation of cultural and scientific heritage in South-Eastern European countries,
- Improve communication and dissemination of information between organisations with similar projects and interests
- Initiate international projects with the participation of partners from South-Eastern European countries
- Facilitate cooperation between the EU countries and South-Eastern European countries
- Bring together specialists from different areas: archivists, librarians and curators, information technology developers, as well as scholars and all the others interested in digitisation of cultural and scientific heritage.
The contributions should cover the following topics:
- digitisation of cultural heritage at local, national, regional and European level - metadata aggregation at national, regional and European level
- digitisation projects in different cultural institutions, case studies
- sustainability of digitisation projects (programs) in cultural institutions: digital library systems, financing, workflow, storage and long-term preservation
- issues of selection, metadata creation and identification of material to be digitised
- digital capture, processing and optical character recognition (OCR)
- legal aspects of digitisation and public access to copyrighted material
- digitisation of 3D objects
- data harvesting and collection of digitally born materials
- end-user studies, meeting the expectations of the (digital) library users
IMPORTANT DATES
20th March 2013: Abstracts submission
15th April 2013: Notification of authors
16th April 2013: Registration opens
6th May 2013: Submission of presentations
Geographical focus
- International; Other
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