CALL FOR PAPERS

"Trends in Research for Image-based Electronic Editions and Collections"

Special session at GVIP'05
International Conference on Graphics, Vision and Image Processing Conference
19-21 December 2005, Cairo, Egypt

This special session is organized by  Jerzy W. Jaromczyk (Computer Science) and  Ross Scaife (Modern and Classical Languages) from the Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities at the University of Kentucky, USA.

Computing for Humanities, specifically Digital Libraries is an interdisciplinary field involving computer and other sciences, engineering, literature, linguistics, arts, architecture and history, with applications in image acquisition and processing, multimedia, virtual displays and electronic editions and collections.

In recent years an increasing number of proposals and implementations have appeared related to the creation, analysis, maintenance, and access to digital collections and electronic editions. Digital images are central elements in this research, and form the common theme for presentations in this special session. The session will explore research trends and developments in tools for acquisition of digital collections, computational approaches for building editions based on such collections, and methods to provide access to digital collections to study original documents and other cultural artifacts.

The venue for this special session is at the crossroads of three continents and is in the land of the Ancient Library of Alexandria and its beautiful modern version, the Library of Alexandria.

Submissions are invited on all topics concerning humanities computing where the digital image plays a pivotal role. The non-exclusive list of topics consists of:

• collaborative environments for building and working on digital collections and electronic editions
• algorithms and implementations for computer-based research in literary, cultural and historical studies for the arts, architecture and music
• techniques for image acquisition
• image processing for digital preservation and restoration
• OCR methods for images of damaged documents and artifacts
• study of manuscripts using digital tools and techniques
• multimedia and visualization issues in presenting digital collections
• the role of collaboration between engineering, computer science and humanities in academic curricula

Of particular interest are submissions reporting on collaborative research on interesting collections of documents and artwork and demonstrations of software. Accepted papers will be invited for presentation and will require at least one author to register for and attend GVIP'05 in order to present the accepted work. Selected papers will be considered for publication in a journal or book devoted to Digital Libraries.


Instructions for Authors

Papers submitted for the special session should be submitted directly to Jerzy W. Jaromczyk in the Department of Computer Science and the Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities, University of Kentucky, USA (jurek@cs.uky.edu).

Submitted papers should not exceed 6 pages in length and should be formatted in accordance with the guidelines, posted at http://www.rch.uky.edu/gvip05-ibeec .

Please see the instructions for registration on the GVIP'05 conference website at http://www.icgst.com/GVIP05/conference .


Important Dates for this special session

20 August 2005: Submission deadline
5 September 2005: Acceptance notification
15 September 2005: Final Camera-Ready Version
15 October 2005: Last date for Early registration
19-21 December 2005: Special session and conference