NCPTT in conjunction with Jean Lafitte National Historical Park, Heritage Documentation Programs (NPS), and the APTI Technical Committee for Documentation will host a three day summit on digital documentation for the preservation of cultural heritage.
The Symposium will be held April 18-20, 2017 at the Old US Mint Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana. The program will feature two days of contributed papers and a poster session, followed by a third day of field demonstrations and exercises. We are soliciting oral and poster presentations that discuss topics which center on 3D digital documentation as used for conservation and preservation. This includes documentation for treatments, applications, future development directions, research, storage issues, and curation of produced data and images. NCPTT is also looking for firms that are interested in giving product and process demonstrations on-site. Cost of the symposium is: $299 Registration (After January 1, 2017) $199 Early Bird Registration (Until January 1, 2017) $99 Student Registration (limited student seats are available on a first come first serve bases. Student must provide photocopy of current student ID and a letter of interest. Student applications should be emailed to [email protected]). Proposals for presentations should be submitted as abstracts. There are two categories of presentations: Oral presentations Talks will be 25 minutes in duration, and 5 minutes for questions. Please submit an abstract of no less than 500 words (excluding figures and references). Abstract should contain: presenter’s full contact information (name, title, organization, address, phone, fax, email), and a 100-word maximum biography for the presenting author and each presenting co-author. We recommend no more than two presenters per paper. Presentations will be recorded and resulting videos posted on NCPTT’s website. Presenters will be required to prepare a short paper, ten pages maximum, for inclusion in a symposium publication. Author guidelines will be posted soon. Deadline for paper submission is February 8, 2017. Abstract deadline is November 30, 2016. Email notification of accepted presentations will be sent on December 12, 2016. Presentations addressing similar topics will be combined into sessions. Poster presentations Posters should be approximately 36 x 40 inches, landscape. Please submit an abstract of no less than 500 words (excluding figures and references). Abstract should contain: main presenter’s full contact information (name, title, organization, address, phone, fax, email). Abstract deadline is January 9, 2017. Email notification of accepted poster presentations will be sent on January 23, 2017. Suggested key issues, topics, and concepts of papers may address include but are not limited to: Data Acquisition techniques; • 3D laser scanning • reflectance transformation imaging • multispectral imaging • digital photogrammetry • Lidar • emerging technologies Data Management with issues such as; • accessibility • curation • storage • standards Data Applications such as; • mapping • modeling • visualization • reconstruction Abstracts for peer review should be sent to: Jason Church NCPTT 645 University Parkway Natchitoches, LA 71457 [email protected] ****** Unsubscribe by sending a message to [email protected] Archives through August 2016 at http://cool.conservation-us.org/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/ Archives from September 2016 onward at https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
