In recent years, we have been witnessing the growth of the digital’s potential applied to the communication and mediation of the Cultural Heritage. Following the international guidelines, such as The Principles of Seville (2011), the concepts set out in the London Charter (2014) and more recently in the Porto Santo Charter (2021), the aim of this International Meeting is to promote a multidisciplinary approach which congregant’s areas as Archaeology, History, History of Art, Museology, Heritage Studies, Digital Design, Archivists and Artificial Intelligence. As announced in the Porto Santo Charter, the use of “digital territories” can set up “an open space of interaction, appropriation and promotion of the cultural democracy, even from the point of view of its creation”, as well as a way of establishing a connection between the institutions and the citizens as members of a certain community. These tools should, for this reason, be useful to people and to engage them in heritage’s cultural policies. In this way, it is intended to promote the necessary reflexion about the multidisciplinary nature of these “digital territories” that involve the technology and the creation of knowledge, with view of a better communication and, therefore, enjoyment of means designated “for the exercise of cultural democracy” (Porto Santo Charter, 2021), at local, national, and international scales.

Bearing in mind the intrinsic relationship between the development of the digital technologies and the heritage communication, we invite the academic community to present innovative proposals (like ongoing projects or already finished), in a broad and multidisciplinary perspective, based on the following topics of reflexion:

Registration, safeguarding and access

Documentation and conservation of the Digital Heritage

Digitization of the Cultural Heritage

Conservation of the Cultural Heritage through AR, VR and Metaverse,

Sustainability and Digital Heritage

Research, communication, and mediation

Cultural heritage research and communication

Immersive experiences

Online communities for Cultural Heritage

Promoting citizenship and social cohesion through Digital Heritage

CALL FOR PAPERS

Deadline for abstract submission: February 28, 2023

Notification deadline: March 31, 2023

Camera-ready papers submission: June 30, 2023

GUIDELINES FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

Submission title:

• The title should be as brief as possible but long enough to clearly indicate the nature of the study.

• No identifying features such as names of authors, as a “blind” review process will be used.

Author / Authors:

• Authors should be introduced in the order in which they will be included in the published abstract (maximum of three authors per abstract).

• For each author please provide: name, email, institution / affiliation (department name, institution/company name) and city / country

Abstract content:

• Abstracts should be clear, concise, and written and presented in Portuguese, English or Spanish.

• The abstract word limit is max. 350 words per abstract and must be uploaded in a PDF file.

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Organizing Committee:

Ana Cristina Sousa (FLUP-CITCEM/ FLUP-DCTP)

Luís Sebastian (Direção Regional de Cultura do Norte - Ministério da Cultura)

Maria Leonor Botelho (FLUP - CITCEM/ FLUP-DCTP)

Marisa Pereira Santos (FLUP-CITCEM)

Tiago Cruz (FAUP, FLUP-CITCEM)