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:

1. Asian cultures: impact and influence on documentation
2. Access
3. From Audit Data to Knowledge
4. Counteracting European Hegemony
5. 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:

1. Full length paper (20 minutes including question time)
2. Market of Ideas contribution (10 minute informal paper on any burning
   issue)
3. Tutorials and workshops (Half day in-depth)
4. 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 cidoc2004@paveprime.com 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