First Announcement of the 2008 CIDOC Annual Conference

Dear all,

In 2008 the CIDOC annual meeting will be held in Athens – Greece from September 15 to 18 and will be organized by the Hellenic Committee of ICOM and the Benaki Museum. Please find additional information below.

Kind regards,

Christian-Emil Ore,
Chair CIDOC

Theme: "The Digital Curation of Cultural Heritage"
see also www.cidoc2008.gr

Digital curation emerged as an important new concept in the theory and management of cultural information. It covers all of the actions needed to maintain digitised and born-digital cultural objects and data, going beyond digital preservation to encompass their utilisation in the context of their entire life cycle, from acquisition and appraisal to exhibition, learning and commercial exploitation. The focus of CIDOC 2008 on the digital curation of cultural heritage will allow curators, collection managers, documentalists, archivists and museum information specialists to explore a broad range of theoretical, methodological, professional practice and technological issuers related to the appraisal, digitisation, management, representation, access and use of digital cultural assets, such as those increasingly becoming part of museum information systems and digital archives. A core emphasis of the meeting will be to understand and re-contextualise the know-how an d history of established curatorial practice in museums, and memory institutions, in general, in the new field of digital cultural heritage; to review and discuss the applicability of standards- and good practice-related work in the context of managing digital cultural information; and to identify and explore the issues, methods and challenges involved with the development of new genres and contexts of virtual exhibition, e-learning and technology-enhanced services for scholarship and research.

Call for Papers
We invite you to submit an abstract of your paper. The abstract should be written in English and be in electronic form. It should be sent to the following email address: papers@cidoc2008.gr, with "CIDOC 2008 abstract" in the subject field.

Written abstract instructions:

• An abstract must include a title
• An abstract should not be longer than 500 words
• Structure: introduction, objectives, conclusion

The following information has to be included:

• Name and surname of the author(s)
• Address of the institution (street, post code, city, telephone & fax no.)
• Email address of the author to which further information will be sent

The deadline for submission of abstracts is February 22, 2008.

Authors will be notified of acceptance by March 22, 2008.

Contributions may take one of the following formats: full length paper (20 min including question time) or short paper (10 minutes) on a subject related to the theme of the conference.

The complete text of the paper should be sent by May 31, 2008, in English or French and in electronic form only, to the email papers@cidoc2008.gr.