Dear colleagues, this year's annual CIDOC Conference is about "Access and Understanding - Networking in the Digital Era". In more than 100 presentations the following areas will be covered: Strategies, Policies, and Processes in Museum Documentation; Museum Documentation as Profession; Networking & Metada; Multilingual Terminology; Digital Long Term Preservation; Intangible Cultural Heritage; GIS-Applications in Cultural Heritage and Digital Documentation in Archaeology. Keynotes are by Murtha Baca, Getty GRI, Günther Schauerte, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz and Tanya Szraiber, British Museum. Two special sessions are devoted to "Getty Vocabularies and Linked Open Data" and the "SPECTRUM"-Standard. More on www.cidoc2014.de We are looking forward to welcoming you in Dresden! For the Local Organisers Monika Hagedorn-Saupe -- Prof. Monika Hagedorn-Saupe Institut für Museumsforschung Staatliche Museen zu Berlin In der Halde 1 14195 Berlin Tel. +4930-8301460 Fax: +4930-8301504 [log in to unmask] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Change ICOM-L subscription options, unsubscribe, and search the archives at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/icom-l.html