CEO 2012 - International Symposium on Strategies for digitizing ethnographical collections and their presentation on the internet

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Category CEO 2012

Deadline: March 15, 2012 | Date: September 26, 2012-September 28, 2012

Venue/Country: Rostock, Germany

Updated: 2012-02-15 15:05:07 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

and their presentation on the internet

By now projects of digitization rank among everyday business in cultural

sciences, but so far there are no substantial experiences in digitizing large

collections and their efficient utilization on the internet. Special problems

arise with digitization of handwritten ethnographical collections based on the

results of vast field research activities. These huge amounts of documents are

barely manageable and often in danger of decay. They need to be long-term

preserved, digitized, and sustainably made accessible online by intelligent and

efficient content management and retrieval techniques.

The theme of the international symposium, which will be held at the University

of Rostock between September 26 and 28, 2012, includes strategies for

digitization and presenta- tion of cultural --- especially ethnographical ---

collections and their online presentation. In the context of the project

"WossiDiA", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the symposium's

hosts are currently preparing the archive of Richard Wossidlo (1859-1939) for

it's complete online presentation. The Wossidlo archive consists of historical

documents about folk culture and the dialect of Mecklenburg, including more

than two million handwritten notes which are highly interconnected with each

other in a complex filing system.

The symposium is meant to offer a forum for discussion and exchange of

experiences with other projects facing similar challenges. It attempts to

bring together archives, libraries, and museums with the computer science and

the disciplines of cultural sciences, such as Cultural Anthropology, Ethnology,

Volkskunde/European Ethnology, Linguistics/Dialectology, and Regional History.

Moreover the symposium is intended to promote digitization efforts for cultural

collections and their online publication.

The symposium focuses on the following topics:

*Concept and Design*

-- Analog and digital long-term preservation as well as sustainability of

digital archives: problems, solutions, guidelines and standards

-- Planning of digitization projects and development of digital archives

-- Interface between cultural sciences on the one hand and software and data

engineering on the other hand for digitization projects

-- Digitization: in-house versus external contractor

-- Integration of diverse kinds of documents and objects (manuscripts and

letters, prints, photographs, objects, maps, etc.)

-- Challenges in and solutions for design and implementation of digitization

workflows

*Implementation*

-- Use of existing digital archive and library systems vs. domain specific

implementations

-- Interconnectivity between and within digitized collections of archives,

libraries, and museums

-- Integration of distributed archive systems and web portals, as well as

perspectives for Europeana, the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, and similar

initiatives in other countries

-- Metadata and structural data: standards, modification techniques, highly

interconnected metadata, classification, thesauri, indexing, and the use of

ontologies incl. their dynamics

*Usage*

-- Techniques for retrieval, evaluation and presentation of online collections

-- Visualization strategies and interaction paradigms for working with online

archives

-- Usage scenarios for digital archives; using of roles (annotator, editor,

contemporary witness, contributor, etc.)

-- A critical analysis of the behavior of users in online and offline archives

-- Rights of use for contents of digital archives: Open Access vs. Digital

Rights Management

-- Digital Collaboration: Use of Web 2.0 technologies to enhance metadata

Interested parties are invited to submit their proposals for presentation.

Please send an abstract of no more than one page in length in English or German

not later than March 15, 2012 to: cfpwossidia.de.

Furthermore you will have the opportunity to present your project in a poster

session. Notification of acceptance for submitted proposals will be sent by

April 10, 2012. The contributions for the symposium will be published

promptly.

*Program committee*

University of Rostock

Dr. Christoph Schmitt

Dept. of Volkskunde/European Ethnology

Am Reifergraben 4

18055 Rostock, Germany

http://www.volkskunde.uni-rostock.de/

E-Mail: Christoph.Schmittuni-rostock.de

Dr. Holger Meyer

Dept. of Computer Science

Database Research Group

Albert-Einstein-Str. 22

18059 Rostock, Germany

http://dbis.informatik.uni-rostock.de/

E-Mail: Holger.Meyeruni-rostock.de

Robert Zepf

Director of library

University Library

Albert-Einstein-Str. 6

18059 Rostock, Germany

http://www.ub.uni-rostock.de/

E-Mail: Robert.Zepfuni-rostock.de

*Contact*

Dr. Stefanie Janssen

Institut f?r Volkskunde (Wossidlo-Archiv)

CEO-Symposium

Am Reifergraben 4, 18055 Rostock, Germany

Tel.: +49 381 498 1056

Fax: +49 381 498 118 1053

E-Mail: Stefanie.Janssenuni-rostock.de

In context of the "WossiDiA" project supported by the German Research Foundation.

Submission deadline (abstract): March 15 2012

Date of acceptance: April 10 2012

Submission of abstract (1 page): mailto:cfpwossidia.de

Conference date: September 26--28 2012

Symposiums website: http://www.wossidia.de/?q=ceo