Call for Papers --------------- Journal of Digital Information (JoDI) Special Issue on Information Access to Cultural Heritage _________________________________________________________ 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/