Dear Colleagues,
Please, excuse any cross posting of the following message!
Hoping to see you all in Seoul,

Dr. Virgil Stefan NITULESCU
CIDOC Editor
Consilier
CAMERA DEPUTATILOR
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050563 Bucuresti
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CIDOC2004 

East meets West:

Influence, Interchange and Interoperability

*Organizer*

The International Documentation Committee of ICOM (CIDOC)

*Description*

Coinciding with the 20th ICOM general conference in Seoul, Korea, CIDOC will be hosting another in their series of dynamic conferences focusing on contemporary issues in museum documentation. This exciting opportunity to visit Asia for the first time brings new views and challenges to the documentation community. With this in mind CIDOC has set as its theme East meets West: Influence, Interchange and Interoperability. Papers are invited to address this and related topics. CIDOC has already identified a number of themes within this area but welcomes additional proposals.

Below is the current non-exhaustive list of themes:

  a.. Asian cultures: impact and influence on documentation
  b.. Access
  c.. From Audit Data to Knowledge
  d.. Counteracting European Hegemony
  e.. Theft of Cultural and Natural Heritage
*Conference Format*

        Monday 4th October
     Tuesday 5th October
     Wednesday 6th October
     
      Breakfast
       Birds of a Feather
       
      09:30 - 11:00
     Welcome Address

      Introduction to CIDOC

      Plenary keynote speaker
     Plenary Theme 2

      Tutorials

      Workshops
     Plenary Theme 4

      Tutorials

      Workshops
     
      11:30 - 13:00
     Plenary Theme 1 
     Plenary Theme 3
     Plenary Theme 5
     
      Lunch
         Poster presentation
     
      14:30 - 16:00
     Working Groups I

      Market of Ideas
     Working Groups II
     Working Group and other Reports

      AGM (including Board Elections)
     

The Birds of a Feather breakfast allows new and existing CIDOCers to discover which Working Groups interest them and what has happened during the last year.



*Types of contribution*

Contributions may take one of the following formats:

  a.. Full length paper (20 minutes including question time)
  b.. Market of Ideas contribution (10 minute informal paper on any burning issue)
  c.. Tutorials and workshops (Half day in-depth)
  d.. Posters (Up to A2 in size) There will be an opportunity to present your poster
Contributions may be made in English, French, Spanish or Korean.

There will be a prize for the paper (full length or Market of Ideas) voted best in conference.

There will be a prize for the poster voted best in conference.

*Submissions*

Submissions should consist of the title and a short one-paragraph abstract. The abstract may be in English, French or preferably both. An indication of the preferred language of presentation should also be given.

Submissions should be sent to [log in to unmask] or

CIDOC2004 Programme Committee

35 Downs Court Rd

Purley

Surrey, CR8 1BF

United Kingdom

Fax +44 (0)20 8763 1739

*Important Dates*

There is a Fast Track submission route to allow authors the opportunity to obtain funding, lower-cost travel and early booking discount.

Fast Track Submission of Title and Abstract April 8, 2004

Fast Track Acceptance Notification April 19, 2004

Normal Submission of Title and Abstract June 1, 2004

Normal Acceptance Notification June 14, 2004

Timetable completion June 30, 2004

Meeting October 4-6, 2004



*Board Elections*

During the Annual General Meeting (AGM), elections will be held for the Board 2004-07. 

All the Board posts will be selected during these elections and consist of

  a.. Chair
  b.. Vice Chair
  c.. Secretary
  d.. Treasurer
  e.. Editor
  f.. 4 Ordinary Members
To be eligible to stand for the Board an individual must be a voting member of CIDOC. Nominations consisting of 

  a.. the name of the person standing and confirmation that they are willing to stand
  b.. the post stood for
  c.. the name of the proposer (must be a CIDOC voting member)
  d.. the name of the seconder (must be a CIDOC voting member)
  e.. a short statement from the candidate in support of their nomination, including brief biographical details
should be sent to 

Andrew Roberts

CIDOC Elections Officer

53 Shelford Road

Cambridge

CB2 2LZ

United Kingdom

by 1st July 2004.

Electronic nominations may be sent to [log in to unmask] They must include an email from the proposer and an email from the seconder.



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