[SDH/SEMI Members] FW: CULTURAL HERITAGE on line. Empowering users: an active role for user communities - Call for papers: DEADLINE EXTENDED

Fri May 29 00:08:05 GMT 2009

Dear SDH/SEMI Members,

I am forwarding this note on behalf of SSHRC, and would like to thank Alan Pepe, the SSHRC Program Officer who spoke to us at our 2009 AGM, for sending it to me for forwarding to you.

Cheers,
Richard

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Subject: CULTURAL HERITAGE on line. Empowering users: an active role for user communities - Call for papers: DEADLINE EXTENDED
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Call for papers: DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 15 JUNE

CULTURAL HERITAGE on line

Empowering users: an active role for user communities

15-16 December 2009, Florence, Italy

Following the success of the previous conference in 2006, the Foundation Rinascimento Digitale, the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities, and the Library of Congress are delighted to announce that the 2nd "CULTURAL HERITAGE online" conference will be hosted by Teatro della Pergola, in Florence in December 2009. This conference aims to explore, analyze, and evaluate the state of the art and future trends in user communities and cultural contents on the web from an international perspective, and bring together academic researchers, policy makers and practitioners, providing a forum for the discussion and dissemination of the selected themes.

Programme:

http://www.rinascimento-digitale.it/conference-2009/Conference2009-Programme.pdf 

 Registration will be open soon: the conference registration form will be available for download soon.

All information and updating about the conference programme, deadlines, organisation and registration will be available on our web site 

www.rinascimento-digitale.it/conference2009  

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The second day of the conference seeks to encourage critical discussion on a number of relevant themes relating to opportunities, challenges and obstacles faced by the digital libraries applications that support an increasingly active role of the user communities.

The Call for Papers invites authors to put users and communities at the centre of digital libraries design and development. Considerations may also be addressed to the improvement of collaborative tools introducing new capabilities for cooperation, knowledge creation, and collective intelligence.

Recently digital technology has enabled the creation of large-scale digital contents, which has considerably increased knowledge about, and access to, several kind of online resources: in the digital environment the distinction between records, exhibitions and collections appear to diminish and the boundaries between Archives, Libraries, and Museums are blurring. The opportunity of a convergence of ALM must be evaluated, considering strengths, weaknesses, risks and benefits for users and organizations.

The new emerging paradigm of participative knowledge production and access is currently profoundly transforming most areas of our life: it also raises a strong need for careful reflection on how people may be involved in defining new prospective sustainable policies and responsibilities for long term preservation of digital heritage.

Preference will be given to authors presenting coordinated experiences among projects, institutions or expert groups.

Topics to be addressed within the Call for Papers are:

The evolution of the Web and collaborative tools:

* Cooperative web tools: opportunities and limits for the cultural heritage sector

* Users and cultural content production on the Web

* Users' access to the digital heritage in the Internet era

* Psychological aspects of acting in the social-cultural Web

Humanities computing:

* The organisation of knowledge in a digital environment

* ALM towards a convergence of techniques and cultures

Long term management of digital memory:

* Appraisal and long term preservation policies

* Responsibility for long term access of web resources

* Economic/organisational models for preservation

PROPOSALS SHOULD INCLUDE:

* Title, authors and outline of the paper (no more than 300 words)

* Contact, e-mail address, telephone/fax numbers of authors

* Name and affiliation of presenter (one of the authors of the paper)

* Short biographical statement regarding the presenter (one of the authors of the paper)

All the selected papers will be published on the official documentation and proceedings. The authors of the best ten papers selected by the scientific committee will gain the possibility to attend the event free of charge.

IMPORTANT DATES AND INFORMATION:

Proposals for papers must be submitted by June 15th, 2009 (Please send an email to info at rinascimento-digitale.it )

Successful candidates will be notified by June 30th, 2009.

The full paper is due no later than October 15th, 2009 and must be an original submission not published elsewhere. Papers must be written and presented in English.

Call for Papers:

http://www.rinascimento-digitale.it/conference-2009/Conference2009-CallForPapers.pdf 

FOR MORE INFORMATION: info at rinascimento-digitale.it

Kind regards,

Benedetta Caporioni

Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale

Nuove Tecnologie per i Beni Culturali

Phone 0039 055 2614012

www.rinascimento-digitale.it <http://frd01/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.rinascimento-digitale.it/> 

caporioni at rinascimento-digitale.it <mailto:caporioni at rinascimento-digitale.it> 

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