On Friday 23 November 2012 the 2nd Symposium of the project SEALINCMedia: "Socially-Enriched Access to Linked Cultural Media" will be held at the National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek) in The Hague. The SEALINCMedia project is a part of the FES COMMIT program.
2nd SEALINCMedia Symposium:
ICT Advances for Cultural Heritage going Digital, Online and Social
23 November 2012, National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague
The objectives of the SEALINCMedia project are to
develop computer science inspired solutions to enrich collections using Internet enabled reliable, scalable and cost effective collaborative content curation and to improve accessibility through advanced personalized content recommendation and search functionalities.
The goal of the Symposium is to bring together the representatives of all participating institutions to exchange the experiences of the first project year and present and demonstrate first results. The symposium is also open to scientists and professionals from outside SEALINCMedia, who are interested in recent advances in the fields of multimedia content recommendation and search, and how these can improve the technological base underlying the trend of the cultural heritage going digital, online and social.
The program of the Symposium will consist of plenary presentations given by the speakers from both the cultural heritage and computer science domain, as well as of a demo market where the state-of-the-art solutions will be presented for multimedia content recommendation, indexing and search applied to cultural heritage use cases.
The Symposium will take place from 9:30am until 2pm, including lunch. The program will be posted here soon. If you would like to attend please let us know here not later than 15 November. For more information on the meeting please contact Ms. Saskia Peters (s.peters [at] tudelft.nl).
Image: Leeszaal Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 2009