The National and University Library in Zagreb supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia is the host of the Sixth SEEDI Conference Digitization of Cultural and Scientific Heritage to be held 18 – 20 May 2011.
The Conference venues, other than the Library, include the Croatian State Archives, and the Museum of Contemporary Art. The aim of the Conference is to present and exchange experiences on new information technologies, standards and other topics in the area of digitization of cultural and scientific heritage. The official language of the Conference is English.
The topics of the Conference include:
- digital capture and transformation from analogue to digital form
- describing and representations of heritage objects and relevant documentation
- processing of digitized content
- presentation and long term preservation of digitized content.
SEEDI is an international effort to develop awareness about digitization of cultural and scientific heritage in the South-Eastern European countries and to bring together:
- archivists, librarians and curators responsible for the preservation of and permanent access to cultural and scientific heritage;
information technology researchers developing projects on digitization of cultural and scientific heritage,
- scholars in the arts and humanities, social sciences, history and computer science, students and others interested in digitization of cultural and scientific heritage.
For more information, please visit the Conference http://www.nsk.hr/seedi/index.html .