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

Research Assistant (Arts and Humanities) Scale 6 (£23,002 - £24,403 per annum) plus London Allowance of £2,572 per annum, Full time, 9 month contract due to funding.

E -Curator: 3D colour scans for remote object identification and assessment

This project draws on UCL's expertise both in curatorship and in e-Science. It takes advantage of the presence at UCL of world class collections across a range of disciplines and of a state of the art colour scanner, the quality of which is unequalled in the UK. The project aims to apply e-science technologies to museum work and artefact analysis, exploring the potential to capture and share in a secure and repeatable manner very large, detailed datasets about museum artefacts, thereby enhancing international scholarship and facilitating he safe movement of artefacts. The ability to share validated 3D colour data could facilitate object-tracking and condition checking, enabling curators and conservators to compare records collected at different institutions and stored remotely, or collected over a period of time under different conditions, in order to assess and monitor change. The project is jointly funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).

CALL FOR PAPERS
3rd International Digital Curation Conference
Curating our Digital Scientific Heritage: a Global Collaborative Challenge
12-13 December 2007 – Renaissance Hotel, Washington DC, USA.

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2007/

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