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CIDOC Conference 2015

5. - 10. September 2015
New Delhi, India

The annual conference of CIDOC, the International Committee for Documentation of ICOM, will take place from 5th -10th of September 2015 in New Delhi, India. Anyone interested from museums and cultural organizations is cordially invited to participate.

The conference will start with a series of workshops on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th of September 2015. The main conference will open on Monday 7th of September 2015. Parallel sessions on  different conference themes will take place on the following three days (7th to 9th September). On Thursday 10th of September, the attendees can join different excursions.

Call for Papers  

Papers are invited related to the following sub-themes and suggested topics:

1. Strategies and policies for documenting the diversity of culture (Goal: Identify significance of diversity of context and tackle diverse documentation needs and challenges of different cultures.)

Suggested topics:

  • National and institutional strategies for documentation
  • Need, benefit and challenges of Open Access
  • Creating value for museums, academia and communities
  • Long term preservation and sustainable models for digital heritage
  • User-driven development and design
  • Documentation as a profession

2. Techniques and methods of documentation (Goal: Methods and techniques for creating documentation for traditional and digital media environments – challenges and experiences.)

Suggested topics:

  • Documentation standards: terminology and metadata
  • Documenting and presenting intangible cultural heritage
  • Telling stories with museum objects - reflections on interpretation
  • 3D Documentation in Cultural Heritage
  • Conceptual Models in the Semantic Web and Linked Data applications
  • Big Data

3. Access and Integration - working together with archives and other heritage Institutions (Goal: Recognizing the unique needs of documentation of Archival material for increasing accessibility. Challenges of integrating archival material with other related data will also be explored.)

Suggested topics:

  • Theoretical and practical insights from archives
  • Access to archival sources
  • Co-referencing - accessing, and integrating material from multiple fields
  • Integration of material from museums and archives
  • Building new alliances
  • Convergence of heritage information

 

Type, length, and scope of contributions can be one of the following types:

  • Scientific Papers and Presentations
  • Presentations of Projects – Success Stories, Failures, Learning Experiences, Challenges
  • Presentations on Vision and Strategy

The length of the presentation may be one of the following:

  • Full length paper (20 minutes plus 10 minutes question time)
  • Short paper (10 minutes plus 5 minutes question time)
  • Brief presentation (5 minutes)
  • Poster presentation

We invite papers and presentations of projects covering a variety of scope including

  • Local – protecting and creating understanding for local culture
  • Institutional – Innovative solutions, emerging best practices
  • National – Presentations of national projects
  • Thematic – Projects crossing national and institutional boundaries
  • Cross-domain – Co-operation between Archives, Libraries, Museums, Researchers
  • Universal – Theoretical or Philosophical contributions


Submission of Abstracts 
We invite you to submit an abstract of your intended paper, presentation or poster. A Scientific Committee will review and select all contributions.

  • The abstract should be written in English, French or Spanish and should be no longer than 250 words. 
  • The title should be no more than three typeset lines and should be comprehensible to a broad audience.
  • Please provide the full names of all authors along with their institutional affiliation: department, institution, and email address. (If needed, use superscripts to match authors with institutions.)
  • Abstracts must be submitted in an editable format (e.g., Word, Open Document Text).


Important dates 

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 6 April, 2015  
Authors will be notified of acceptance not later than:8 June, 2015  
Deadline for submission of full papers: 5 August, 2015

Please send your submission to cidocindia2015(at)gmail.com.

Veröffentlicht am 11.03.2015