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Call for Chapters:
Handbook of Research on Technologies and Cultural Heritage: Applications and Environments
Important Dates:
September 7, 2009: 	Proposal Submission Deadline
October 5, 2009:	Notification of Acceptance
December 24, 2009:	Full Chapter Submission
http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=667
 
During the last years there has been a significant increase of research projects related to the effective presentation, quality of service provision and management of cultural information through technology. As the network technologies become faster and the software development environments become more intelligent, there is an inherent requirement to understand the user needs and to propose new advanced, more secure and more adaptive applications for effectively managing cultural information. In these fields, there exists a need for an edited collection of chapters.
 
Handbook of Research on Technologies and Cultural Heritage: Applications and Environments will aim to negotiate the issues related to the effective designing, development and deployment of information systems for promoting and managing cultural information.
The handbook will focus on the practical aspects of developing successful information systems for managing cultural heritage exhibits or cultural events, but will also seek chapters on the theoretical underpinnings of information systems for the domain of culture.
 
Suggested topics (but not limited to):
 
•      Characteristics of cultural heritage in the digital era
•      Multimedia applications (overview of existing applications and potentials)
•      Content management applications (databases, retrieval, digital libraries)
•      Standards and protocols
•      ICT for bureaucratic procedures in cultural heritage (differentiating large and medium sized organizations)
•      Web 2.0 for cultural heritage
•      Educational applications
•      Games
•      Mobile applications
•      Distributed systems for managing and presentation purposes
•      Multimedia security in networking
•      Trustworthy multimedia networks
•      Authorization and access control models
•      Digital rights management
•      Digital watermarking
•      Quality issues during content presentation
•      Quality of service issues in multimedia networks
•      Stability properties of heterogeneous multimedia networks and distributed systems
•      Display mediums for cultural heritage applications
•      E-shop applications
•      Interaction mediums for cultural heritage applications
•      Indoor / outdoor solutions (networks, mediums, applications)
•      Interoperability of cultural information systems
•      Accessibility and adaptability of cultural heritage applications
 
The book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), www.igi-global.com, publisher of the Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference), Medical Information Science Reference, and IGI Publishing imprints, in 2010. Please visit http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=667 for more details regarding this publication.
 
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me.
 
Best wishes,
 
Dr. Georgios D. Styliaras
Department of Cultural Heritage Environment and New Technologies
University of Ioannina, Greece
gstyl@uoi.gr