Nicosia: 3 March 2010

The call for papers for the EuroMed2010 International Conference that is dedicated to Digital Cultural Heritage and Multilingua Digital Libraries has been published. The Conference will take place from the 8th through to the 13th of November 2010 and will be held in Lemesos, Cyprus.

The Conference welcome letter states:

“The main goal of the event is to illustrate the programs underway, whether organised by public bodies (e.g. UNESCO, European Union, National States, etc.) or by private foundations (e.g. Getty Foundation, World Heritage Foundation, etc.) in order to promote a common approach to the tasks of recording, documenting, protecting and managing World Cultural Heritage. The 3rd EuroMed Conference will definitely be a forum for sharing views and experiences, discussing proposals for the optimum attitude as well as the best practice and the ideal technical tools to preserve, document, manage, present/visualise and disseminate the rich and diverse Cultural Heritage of Mankind. The ultimate aim of the 3rd EuroMed 2010 Conference will be to bring together as many interested institutions/parties as possible from as many different backgrounds as possible, in order to achieve a high level of mutual understanding of the needs, the requirements and the technical means of meeting them. Ultimately our common goal will be the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach to the tasks of digitalisation, recording, documenting, archiving, presenting, protecting and managing the World Cultural Heritage. Our ambition is to host a somewhat different VSMM conference by mobilising participants from all over the world and from quite different scientific backgrounds. Technological advances are very often reported in detail in specialised fora. What this event will strive for, is the establishment of bridges of communication and channels of cooperation between the various disciplines involved in Cultural Heritage. Furthermore, the contributions in this conference can assist all experts involved in the Cultural Heritage area in restoring, renovating, protecting, documenting, archiving, monitoring of the history of humanity in order to secure this information for the years to come. It is evident and clear that a worldwide collaboration in this area will help make our "Hi-tech-Story" accessible to the present and the future.”

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The call for papers states:

“Those researchers who wish to participate in this event are invited to submit papers on original work addressing the following subjects or related themes:

• Digital Data Acquisition Technologies in CH
• 2D and 3D Data Capture Methodologies and Data Processing in CH
• On-site and remotely sensed data collection
• 2D and 3D GIS in Cultural Heritage
• Remote Sensing for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management & Monitoring
• CAD and FEM based Digital Reconstructions and 3D Modelling
• Reproduction Techniques and Rapid Prototyping in CH
• Visualisation Techniques (desktop, Virtual and Augmented Reality)
• Virtual Reality in Archaeology and Historical Research
• Multimedia, Multilingua, Data Management and Archiving
• Construction and indexing of large scale Multimedia/Multilingual
• Encyclopedias in Cultural Heritage
• Computer Animation for CH Applications and Virtual Heritage
• Game Technologies in Cultural Heritage
• Non-Photorealistic Rendering of CH Data
• Virtual Museum Applications (e-Museums and e-Exhibitions)
• Digital/Virtual Documentation of Archaeological Excavations
• Novel Internet-based Cultural Heritage Applications
• Portals and Digital Libraries of Culture
• Usability, Effectiveness and Interface Design for CH Applications
• Innovative Graphics Applications and Techniques
• Interactive Environments and Applications
• e-Libraries and e-Archives in Cultural Heritage
• National Digital Libraries and Aggregators as cross-domain systems
• Long term availability of content and its long term accessibility
• Effective IC-Technologies for the creation, management and reuse of content and knowledge
• Storytelling and authoring tools
• e-Learning in Cultural Heritage
• Tools for Education, Documentation and Training in CH
• Archaeological Analysis and Interpretive Design
• Standards, Metadata, Ontologies and Semantic Processing in Cultural Heritage
• Authentication, Accreditation and Digital Rights Management
• Legal issues: Water-Marking, Orphan Works, Copyrights and IPR
• Professional and Ethical Guidelines
• The Economics of Cultural Informatics and Tourism
• Natural and Man initiated deconstruction of Cultural Heritage and prevention techniques.
• ICT assistance in monitoring and restoration”