Hi all, Perhaps of interest to some MCN-L subscribers.
cheers, Rob -------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP: IEEE IS Special issue on AI and Cultural Heritage Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 17:07:42 +0200 From: Lora Aroyo <l.m.ar...@cs.vu.nl> To: CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS at LISTSERV.ACM.ORG IEEE Intelligent Systems Special issue on AI and Cultural Heritage http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/intelligent/content/CulHerCFP.html Cultural heritage is transforming as fast as the digital age. While once we collected objects such as books, sculptures, statues, and paintings, we now also face the preservation and archival of digital artifacts. These might be digital representations of physical objects or digital creations, such as interactive works of art, blogs, or even the World Wide Web itself, that are in their own right culturally significant and worthy of preservation. This special issue seeks to explore the problems and solutions of cultural heritage in the digital age. To what extent can computers, and particularly knowledge-based technologies, facilitate the processes of authentication, preservation, and archiving of physical and digital artifacts? Topics for which we invite submissions include, but aren?t limited to, these: * Knowledge representations and reasoning ? for example, ? combining heterogeneous collections; ? integration or evolution of vocabularies, metadata schemas, and ontologies; ? syntactic and semantic interoperability issues; ? reasoning strategies (for example, context, temporal, or spatial); and ? novel applications of the Cidoc Conceptual Reference Model (CRM), SKOS, and VRA * Intelligent interface support for professional and lay users, for example: ? annotating digital (representations of) artifacts, ? techniques for exploring and interacting with repositories of digital (representations of) artifacts, ? trust and provenance issues, ? personalization issues, and ? integration of semantics with audiovisual media. * Feature detection techniques for analyzing digital artifacts, for example: ? determining physical artifacts? authenticity (handwriting or brushstroke recognition, x-ray analysis, and so on), ? automatic creation of annotations, ? automatic ontology extraction from collections, and ? use of machine learning and natural language processing techniques. However, all submissions must contain some form of knowledge-based technologies (including the Semantic Web) and directly involve some aspect of cultural heritage. Important Dates * Submissions due for review: 15 Aug. 2008 * Notification of acceptance: 17 Dec. 2008 * Final version submitted: 29 Dec. 2008 * Issue publication: Mar. 2009 Submission Guidelines Submissions should be 3,000 to 7,500 words (counting a standard figure or table as 200 words) and should follow the magazine?s style and presentation guidelines (see http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/intelligent/mc/author.html). References should be limited to 10 citations. To submit a manuscript, access the IEEE Computer Society Web-based system, Manuscript Central, at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee. Questions? Contact Guest Editors Lynda Hardman, lynda.hardman at cwi.nl; Lora Aroyo, l.m.aroyo at cs.vu.nl; Eero Hyv?nen, eahyvone at cc.hut.fi; or Jacco van Ossenbruggen, jacco.van.ossenbruggen at cwi.nl --------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send an empty email to mailto:chi-announcements-unsubscribe-request at listserv.acm.org For further details of CHI lists see http://sigchi.org/listserv --------------------------------------------------------------- -- ______________________________________________ Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu) Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA 860.685.2965 Vice President / President-Elect, Museum Computer Network (MCN)
