The 9th VAST International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
Towards Sustainability | Integrated Technological Practices for Human Heritage and Cultural Memory

Call for Participation
VAST2008 continues the tradition of excellence in the VAST symposia for technologies in service of cultural heritage. This year's symposium emphasizes the ephemeral nature of the subject of our disciplines, namely the tangible/intangible cultural heritage artifacts, archaeological remains, buildings, finds, manuscripts, myths, life histories, songs, stories, and the new virtual heritage artifacts we are producing in order to document, analyze, visualize and share our pasts through digital means.

2nd CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS: Submission deadline: March 31, 2008

Handbook of Research on Social Dimensions of Semantic Technologies and Web Services
A book edited by Maria Manuela Cunha, Eva Oliveira, António Tavares & Luís Ferreira
Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal
http://handbooksemanticweb.ipca.pt

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the "Handbook of Research on Social Dimensions of Semantic Technologies and Web Services" within your field of expertise related to the handbook topics.

Introduction:

"The web isn't about what you can do with computers. It's people and, yes, they are connected by computers. But computer science, as the study of what happens in a computer, doesn't tell you about what happens on the web". Tim Berners-Lee, NY Times, Nov 02, 2006.

Issue no. 3 of e_conservation magazine is online and available for download from http://www.e-conservationline.com. Past issues are also available from the archive, with a new download option for individual articles as well.

No. 3, published on 24th February 2008
ISSN: 1646-9283

INDEX

News - New Website
Cultural Heritage Conservation Events
http://www.conservationevents.com

Conference Review
I Heritage Conference, Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa
14-15 February 2008, Lisbon, Portugal

Upcoming Events
February - April 2008

Interview
John Asmus, from Lasers to Art Conservation

CaSTA (the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis) 2008

A Joint Humanities Computing, Computer Science Conference at University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 16-18 October 2008

from https://ocs.usask.ca/ocs/index.php/casta/casta08/schedConf/cfp 

The organizing committee also invites proposals (approx. 500-700 words) from Canadian and international scholars and practitioners working on the application of digital technology to the study of material culture up to c.1700 (computer science, archaeology, anthropology, geography, history, literature, etc.) for a pre-conference seminar on "Digitizing Early Material Culture: from Antiquity to Modernity." Final submissions should aim to be 2,500-5,000 words in length and may address digital projects, programs of research, digital tools and practices, or theory related to the digitization of material culture to the end of the seventeenth century.

Academic Commons released its December 2007 special issue devoted to CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE & THE LIBERAL ARTS (www.academiccommons.org/). Edited by David L. Green (Principal at Knowledge Culture), the issue is dedicated to the memory of Roy Rosenzweig (1950-2007), an extraordinary historian who inspired a generation of fellow historians and others working at the intersection of the humanities and new technologies (http://thanksroy.org/).

Cyberinfrastructure offers the liberal arts new resources and new ways of working - with revolutionary computing capabilities, massive data resources and distributed human expertise. How will students, scholars, teachers, librarians, museum professionals and others connect, use and contribute to these new capabilities? Will humanists work collaboratively and produce new forms of scholarship "more interesting than the book"? How will institutions change the way they do business in putting cyberinfrastructure to work?

This collection of essays, interviews and reviews captures the perspectives of scholars, scientists, information technologists and administrators on the challenges and opportunities cyberinfrastructure presents for the liberal arts and liberal arts colleges. What difference will cyberinfrastructure make and how should we prepare?

Table of Contents:
http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/announcement/table-of-contents