DASH Archives - January 2012

An invitation to attend

'An Electric Current of the Imagination: What the Digital Humanities Are and What They Might Become'
Inaugural lecture by Professor Andrew Prescott, Head of the Department of Digital Humanities

Wednesday 25 January, 6.30pm
Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre, King's College London, Strand Campus

The lecture will be introduced by Professor Sir Rick Trainor KBE, Principal and President, King's College London.  A response to the lecture will be given by Dr. Raymond Siemens, Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria.

There will be a wine reception following the lecture.

Everyone is welcome - please just register via Eventbrite to help us in monitoring numbers: 
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/2740816857

This is part of a series of events that will take place at King's College London to mark the merger of the Centre for e-Research with the Department of Digital Humanities and Andrew Prescott's appointment as Head of the Department of Digital Humanities. Full details at: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/events/index.aspx.

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School of Arts & Humanities
King's College London
Strand, London, WC2R 2LS

Email: anna.ashton@kcl.ac.uk

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Dear all,

places are still available for the Preservation Of Complex Objects 
Symposium (POCOS) on Video Games and Virtual Worlds in Cardiff on 26-27 
January 2012. The event features an impressive array of distinguished 
speakers and should not be missed by anyone working or interested in 
preserving video game materials. Participation is free (plus £10 
donation for refreshments payable at the event).

You can book your place online here: 
http://www.pocos.org/index.php/registration

For further information, please see the symposium invitation below.

Best wishes,
Leo

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Preservation Of Complex Objects Symposia (POCOS)

We are pleased to announce the 3rd POCOS Symposium on Preservation of 
Games and Virtual Worlds:

• 26-27 January 2012
• The Novotel Hotel, Cardiff, UK
• Organised by the Future-Proof Computing Group, University of 
Portsmouth, UK.
• Symposium Fee: Free + £10 donation for refreshments (payable at the 
event)


Online registration:http://www.pocos.org/index.php/registration


Preservation of video games and virtual worlds presents challenges on 
many fronts, including complex interdependencies between game elements 
and platforms; online, interactive and collaborative properties; and 
diversity in the technologies and practices used for development and 
curation.

This exciting two-day symposium will provide a forum for participants to 
discuss these challenges, review and debate the latest developments in 
the field, witness real-life case studies, and engage in networking 
activities. The symposium will promote discussion on such topics as:

• Implications and advances in preserving video games and virtual worlds
• Issues of recreating complex technical environments in terms of mods, 
cracks, plug-ins, joysticks etc. for both console and PC games
• The overriding need to provide an authentic user experience for 
preserved games
• The Economical Case for re-releasing old games
• Legal and Ethical issues in collecting, curating and preserving 
virtual worlds
• Interpretation and Documentation, especially metadata

Keynote Speakers:
• Dr Jerome McDonough – The iSchool, University of Illinois, USA / 
Preserving Virtual Worlds Project
• Prof. Richard Bartle FRSA – University of Essex, UK and creator of MUD1
• Dr Dan Pinchbeck, TheChineseRoom, UK and creator of Dear Esther

Presenters include:
• Angela Dappert - The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and TIMBUS 
project
• Tom Woolley - Curator of New Media, National Media Museum, UK


The programme also includes break-out sessions for participants to 
discuss key topics in the preservation of games and virtual worlds.


For more information, please visit the POCOS page 
at:http://www.pocos.org/index.php/pocos-symposia/videogame-environments-a-virtual-worlds 


Download the brochure 
at:http://www.pocos.org/images/pub_material/POCOS_3_LEAFLET_V1.pdf

Bookings are now open at the project website – however, space is limited 
so please book early. A waiting list will be maintained once the 
symposium is fully booked in case of late cancellations.

We look forward to welcoming you at the event!


Preservation Of Complex Objects Symposia (POCOS) has been funded by the 
JISC Information Environment Programme 2009-11

-- 
Dr Leo Konstantelos
Principal Investigator, POCOS
HATII Preservation Research Officer

11 University Gardens
University of Glasgow
Glasgow
G12 8QH

Skype: l.konstantelos
T: +44 (0)141 330 7133
E: L.Konstantelos@hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk
W: http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk

* apologies for cross-posting*
 

Call for paper
 ECLAP 2012 Conference on

Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment

7-9 May 2012, Florence, Italy

Conference web page: http://www.eclap.eu/conference 
Deadline of the Call for Paper Submission: 1, February 2012 
Call for papers: http://www.eclap.eu/drupal/?q=node/65309

Registration form and page 
Location: Convitto della Calza, Florence, Italy

 
It has been a long history of Information Technology innovations within the Cultural Heritage areas. The Performing arts has also been enforced with a number of new innovations which unveil a range of synergies and possibilities.  Most of the technologies and innovations produced for digital libraries, media entertainment and education can be exploited in the field of performing arts, with adaptation and repurposing.  Performing arts offer many interesting challenges and opportunities for research and innovations and exploitation of cutting edge research results from interdisciplinary areas. For these reasons, the ECLAP 2012 can be regarded as a continuation of past conferences such as AXMEDIS and WEDELMUSIC (both pressed by IEEE and FUP). ECLAP is a European Commission project to create a social network and media access service for performing arts institutions in Europe, to create the e-library of performing arts, exploiting innovative solutions coming from the ICT. 
 
The ECLAP conference is open to researchers, professionals, industries, institutions, technicians and practitioners in the area of performing arts and information technologies, media entertainment; technology enhanced learning, intelligent media systems, acoustic systems, cultural heritage, and many others. The ECLAP conference should become a place where institutions, industries and European Commission and Europeana projects in the areas of cultural heritage can find a place to collaborate and present results. Thus, we invite all the interested groups to organize a workshop/section into ECLAP conference providing their proposal. Exhibition section offers settings (booth and tables) to host demonstrators. Demo and poster sections will be also organized. 
 
The conference is going to have a general track and a set of workshops/sections and panels, and excellent keynote speakers. The conference will be constituted by selected top level papers, which will be published in the proceedings pressed by Florence University Press, with ISBN, and promoted in the most relevant indexing engines. 

Topics of the General track on Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment, but not limited to, are reported in the following (while other topics can be proposed as well):
•	Indexing and search, filtering, information retrieval
•	Cross media and multimedia mining
•	Media Annotations and tagging, solutions and interfaces
•	Mobile solutions and tools
•	Cloud based mobile solutions
•	Creative technologies 
•	Sentiment analysis
•	Multimodal interactive systems
•	Recommendations and suggestions
•	Media grid processing and semantic computing
•	IPR management and business models
•	Data and media protection
•	Linked Open Data and Media, aggregated media
•	Intelligent information management
•	Personalization and profiling, user behavior analysis
•	Live Performance technologies and solutions
•	Emotion recognition and exploitation
•	Audio processing and tools for large events and installations
•	Video analysis, indexing and summarization
•	Social media technologies and solutions
•	Story telling models and tools
•	3D and 4D technologies and tools
•	Brain interfaces and interactions
•	Collective intelligence analysis and exploitation
•	Augmented reality solutions
•	Multilingual and natural language processing
•	Collaborative and cooperative systems
•	Metadata quality, mapping and ingestion models and tools
•	Speech processing and understanding
•	Content production models and tools

Papers will be subjected to the review and selection of the ECLAP Program Committee members. 
 
Papers format and submission: the paper submission (for all the sessions and workshops) has to be maximum of 6 pages in two columns ECLAP format. Submissions have to be original and not submitted and/or published in other journals or conferences. The submission has to be performed by sending via email the paper in PDF with the ECLAP format to info@eclap.eu. Only the papers accepted by the Programme Committee will be presented at the ECLAP 2012 Conference and publisched in the conference proceedings.

Deadlines:
•	Submission of papers to the general track: 1 February 2012 (ECLAP format)
•	Submission of papers to the Workshops/Sections: 1 February 2012 (ECLAP format)
•	Submission of proposal for the Exposition: 1 February 2012
•	Response to the Authors: 15 February 2012
•	Response for the exposition area: 15 February 2012
•	Camera ready version in PDF with the correct format: 3 March 2012
•	Conference: 7-9 May 2012
 
*Please pass this announcement on to friends and colleagues who might find it of interest.*

Célyne van Corven
La Bellone, House of Performing Arts in Brussels