[Archport] Digital Heritage International Congress 2013

[Vera Moitinho <veramoitinho@gmail.com>]

Digital Heritage International Congress 2013

Marseille, France.
28.Oct - 01.Nov

http://www.digitalheritage2013.org/

Fall 2013 will witness the largest international scientific event on digital heritage in history, bringing together hundreds of researchers, educators, scientists, industry professionals and policy makers to debate, discuss and present digital technology applied to the protection, documentation, and understanding of humanity’s shared heritage. For the first time ever, under the patronage of UNESCO, the leading scientific and industry events from across the digital and heritage spheres will join together under one roof to explore the state-of-the-art and address future emerging research scenarios.

The Congress covers heritage in all its forms, focusing around 5 heritage themes:

• Built Heritage from monuments to archaeological sites, cities, and landscapes encompassing the UNESCO World Heritage Convention;
• Culture & Traditions from folklife to languages, crafts, song and dance encompassing the UNESCO Intangible Heritage Convention;
• Museums & Collections from movable objects to the museums that house them encompassing the UNESCO Movable Heritage & Museums Program;
• Libraries & Archives documentary heritage from books to audiovisual collections encompassing the UNESCO Memory of the World;
• Art & Creativity from digital / new media art to creative digital and online culture encompassing the UNESCO Diversity of Cultural Expressions Convention & Creativity Programs.

There are 6 Congress tracks spanning the challenges and opportunities brought by digital technology to heritage:

• Digitization: Digital Documentation & Input;
• Visualization and Interaction: Digital Presentation & Output;
• Analysis and Interpretation: Digital Content Management & Analysis;
• Policy and standards: Digital Heritage Policy & Societal Issues;
• Preservation: Digital Preservation & Standards;
• Theory, methodologies and applications of Digital Heritage: Digital Heritage Solutions & Best Practices.

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Vera Moitinho de Almeida
PhD student
Laboratorio de Arqueología Cuantitativa y Aplicaciones Informáticas en Arqueología.
Departament de Prehistòria
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Edifici B, Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres
08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain

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