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ECAI Spring 2006 Meetings
in conjunction with CAA
April 18 - 21, 2006
Fargo, North Dakota, USA

CALL FOR PAPERS

ECAI is pleased to announce that the Spring 2006 meetings will be held in conjunction with the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) conference - Digital Discovery: Exploring New Frontiers in Human Heritage, April 18 - 21 in Fargo, North Dakota.

ECAI is accepting submissions for papers within the theme Cultural Heritage and Cyber infrastructure on the following topics:

  1. Exemplary cultural maps and atlases
  2. Cultural atlases in teaching
  3. Gazetteers and related aids
  4. Metadata, Standards, and Best Practices
  5. e-Scholarship / e-Science
  6. Cyber infrastructure in the Humanities and Social Sciences
  7. e-Publications
  8. Virtual Reality

The CAA list of conference topics include:

  1. Virtual Reality Modeling
  2. Simulations and Complex Modeling
  3. 3D Data Capture, Manipulation, and Analysis
  4. Field Applications
  5. Remote Sensing
  6. Mapping and Spatial Technologies (GIS and others)
  7. Informatics
  8. Education
  9. Cultural Heritage Resources Management
  10. Bio-Archaeology and Human Biological Heritage
  11. Quantitative Applications
  12. Archaeometry
  13. Maritime Archaeology
  14. Theoretical Issues

Submissions relevant to ECAI topics should be sent by January 13, 2006 to Kim Carl, ECAI, kcarl@berkeley.edu. Submissions relevant to the CAA list, but not to ECAIs, should be submitted directly to CAA. Submission guidelines for CAA are available from the CAA conference web site,
http://www.caa2006.org/.

ECAI had a successful conference with CAA in the Spring 2003. We welcome this opportunity to once again meet with this diverse group of scholars. Plans to meet in Belfast were altered due to logistical problems however an ECAI Congress of Cultural Atlases in Belfast is in the planning.