CfP JoDI Special Issue on Information Access to Cultural Heritage

Call for Papers
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Journal of Digital Information (JoDI)
Special Issue on Information Access to Cultural Heritage
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https://journals.tdl.org/jodi/announcement/view/8

Submission deadline extended to Monday, June 15, 2009

Advanced information access and retrieval technology is opening up new
vistas for cultural heritage organizations wishing to reach a broader
audience with their collections. By making available digital modes of
interaction with cultural heritage content, museums and archives stimulate
the emergence of communities of users of cultural heritage information
encompassing both on-line and on-site engagement with cultural heritage
collections. If digital access to cultural heritage is to be effective,
innovative, and robust, challenges related to the variety and richness of
cultural heritage resources and to the diverse range of users with varying
information needs and search behaviors must be overcome.

The Information Access to Cultural Heritage workshop (IACH 2008) brought
together researchers in the area of information access technology and
practitioners working in the cultural heritage field to address the new ways
in which technological developments can promote access to cultural heritage
content. The Journal of Digital Information Special Issue on Information
Access to Cultural Heritage will be dedicated to themes that were treated by
papers delivered at the workshop and topics that emerged and were developed
during the workshop panel discussion. These topics include the creation and
use of semantic representations, modular approaches for light-weight system
design, automatic indexing of multimedia collections, innovative forms of
user interaction and collection and exploitation of user contributed
metadata.

Topics and trends relevant to the JoDI Special Issue on Information Access
to Cultural Heritage encompass:

* Using semantic metadata to improve information access
* Retrieval of structured and unstructured text
* Multimedia retrieval (images, video, audio,...)
* Exploiting user contributions (tags, reviews, recommendations,
favorites lists)
* Access to distributed repositories
* Access to multilingual resources
* Light-weight, modular approaches to building cultural hertiage
applications
* User interaction and interface design
* Story-telling and dialogue promoting interaction with cultural
heritage content
* Evaluation and test collections
* Applications and case studies

For fomatting guidelines and submission instructions see see
http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/about/submissions#authorGuidelines
When submitting include "Special Issue on Information Access to Cultural
Heritage" in the Comments for the Editor box.

Submission deadline:
Monday, June 15, 2009

Special issue editors:
Martha Larson, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Kate Fernie, Kate Fernie Consulting, UK
Johan Oomen, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

Related links:
http://ilps.science.uva.nl/IACH2008/
http://www.multimatch.eu/