CIDOC2018: CIDOC 2018 Cultural Conference Centre of Heraklion Heraklion, Greece, September 29-October 5, 2018 |
Conference website | http://www.cidoc2018.com/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cidoc2018 |
Abstract registration deadline | March 31, 2018 |
Submission deadline | July 31, 2018 |
Now through February 28, we are accepting proposals for presentations, workshops, and case studies for the International Committee for Documentation (CIDOC) of the International Council of Museum’s (ICOM) annual conference. Every year, the CIDOC conference brings together museums and cultural heritage professionals and researchers together in a dynamic, common forum to share knowledge and experience, to gain new perspectives and to make new connections. This year’s conference will be held in the historical seaside city of Heraklion, Crete in Greece from the 29th of September until the 4th of October. Conference participants will have the chance to experience the museological, historical and natural wealth of Crete through a full cultural programme, including a visit to the archaeological site of Knossos, palatial capital of the ancient Minoan civilization.
The theme of this year’s conference is Provenance of Knowledge. As an essential aspect of documentation, Provenance of Knowledge refers to the work of tracing the origins of the information and knowledge about an object, an entity or an idea in order to reconstruct the whole chain of creation, use, interpretation and dissemination of this knowledge. The aim of such reconstruction is to confirm or disconfirm, illustrate, and draw upon the information contained in documentation in order to facilitate understanding across cultures and time. Work on provenance of knowledge by different professionals from different perspectives helps draw together the various threads of documentation, scholarship and the material evidence kept in museums and other memory institutions into a common resource for humankind.The task of validating the information and knowledge held in memory institutions is increasingly aided by the use of digital technologies in documentation. Such advances, however, bring their own difficulties, as the abundance of the available information makes it difficult to introduce standards and processes to model and maintain the development and validity of documented information. Therefore, perspectives on unravelling the complications of digital provenance of knowledge are particularly welcome.
Submission Guidelines
Contributions on a subject related to the theme of the conference may take one of the following formats:
- Full length paper (20 min plus question time)
- Short paper (10 minutes plus question time)
- Brief presentation / Marketplace of ideas (5 minutes)
- Poster presentation
We invite you to submit an abstract of your paper or poster. An international panel of experts will review all submissions.
The abstract should be written in English and must be in an electronic format (preferably PDF).
Abstracts should not be longer than 250 words, and should be formatted simply (preferably Times New Roman, 12pt, double spaced).
Please include the following information at the beginning of the abstract: title, author(s), affiliation(s), contact information (incl. email address).
List of Topics
- Object information as historical source
- Object documentation and archival resources
- Field research and object documentation
- Oral tradition and witnessing information in connection with objects
- Documentation and interdisciplinarity
- Object documentation and analytical resources
- Provenance of materials and techniques
- Documentation for target groups (e.g. special needs)
- Methods of knowledge verification and documentation of knowledge revision
- Ethics of provenance of information
- Provenance of knowledge and preservation of referred sources
Venue
The venue will be the Cultural Conference Centre of Heraklion (CCCH), located at Nikolaou Plastira street inside the historical center of Heraklion near the Venetian Walls. This brand new centre provides state of the art facilities that will fully accommodate the conference participant’s needs.
The municipality of Heraklion also has other impressive spaces in the historic center of Heraklion which can accommodate opening and closing conference ceremonies.
There are many cafeterias and restaurants within walking distance of the CCCH which serve traditional Greek cuisine.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to info@cidoc2018.com.