International Conference EuroMed 2020 – Call for Papers

Invitation to contribute to the EuroMed 2020 Conference

Date: 2. – 5 November 2020
Venue: Online
Deadline for submission of papers: 15 September 2020
Conference registration opens on: 16 October 2020

The 8th biannual European-Mediterranean Conference on Digital Heritage Documentation, Preservation and Protection (EuroMed) is co-organised by the UNESCO and the EU ERA Chairs on Digital Cultural Heritage. It brings together multidisciplinary researchers, policy makers, professionals, fellows, practitioners and stakeholders to explore some of the more pressing issues concerning Cultural Heritage today.

Conference Topics

I. Digital Heritage Documentation and Preservation

II. Protection, Restoration and Preservation of Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage

The conference will focus on interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research on tangible and intangible Cultural Heritage, using cutting edge technologies for the protection, restoration, preservation, massive digitalization, documentation and presentation of the Cultural Heritage contents.

At the same time, the event is intended to cover topics of research ready for exploitation, demonstrating the acceptability of new sustainable approaches and new technologies by the user community, owners, managers and conservators of our cultural patrimony

More detailed information regarding the topics can be found on the conference website.

Submission of Papers

Submissions for the event are completely electronic through the online submission website.

The conference accepts only original, unpublished work written in English which will be blind-reviewed and published by the prestigious Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

You can contribute in two ways:

  1. Project Research papers: presenting new innovative research developments and results. They will feature a full-length oral presentation and will be published in a high-quality proceedings volume. Each submitted paper must not exceed 12 pages in total.
  2. Short papers /Posters: presenting preliminary ideas and works-in-progress. These papers will have a short oral presentation and will be also available as posters during the entire time of the event online. Each short paper must not exceed 8 pages in total.

The 10 best submitted papers will be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Heritage in the Digital Era (IJHDE).

EuroMed 2020 will be carried out with the support of a series of associated TMO members, such as:

Cyprus University of Technology
UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage
European Research Infrastructure on e-Humanities and Art DARIAH-EU
European Research Infrastructure for Language Resources and Technology CLARIN-ERIC
Europa Nostra
EU Photoconsortium
CARARE Consortium
and others more…