International Conference on Virtual Systems and MultiMedia (VSMM) dedicated to Digital Heritage
The main goal of the event is to illustrate the programmes underway, whether organised by public bodies (e.g. UNESCO, European Union, National States, etc.) or by private foundations in order to promote a common approach to the tasks of recording, documenting, protecting and managing World Cultural Heritage. The Conference will be a forum for sharing views and experiences, discussing proposals, as well as the best practice and the ideal technical tools to preserve, document, manage, present/visualise and disseminate the rich and diverse World Cultural Heritage.
The ultimate aim of the 14th VSMM 2008 Conference will be to bring together as many interested institutions/parties as possible from as many different backgrounds as possible, in order to achieve a high level of mutual understanding of the needs/requirements, as well as the technical means for meeting them. The organisers’ ambition is to host a somewhat different VSMM conference by mobilising participants from all over the world and from quite different scientific backgrounds.
During the conference, a number of workshops will be proposed to participants who are interested in gaining on-hands experience in several topics related to the e-Documentation in Cultural Heritage. These include:
- Digitizing the Past and the Present for the Future: Double-click on the Cultural Heritage Content: Challenges and Solutions;
- Licensing, Metadata and the Use / Reuse of Digital Heritage;
- Archives Infrastructure: Infrastructure for Digitized Cultural Content in Europe;
- European Union MICHAEL / MINERVA projects results;
- Multilingual and Multimedia Access to Cultural Heritage Digital Objects: the MultiMatch Solution (EU MultiMatch project);
- The European Commission's COINS Project.
Registration can be performed online at the event’s website. The participation fee is €400 for students and €550 for other attendees.
Event email: chairman@vsmm2008.org
