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Welcome to VAST 2008 Web Site

Towards Sustainability
Integrated Technological Practices for Human Heritage and Cultural Memory

 

VAST2008 continues the tradition of excellence in the VAST symposia for technologies in service of cultural heritage. This year’s symposium emphasizes the ephemeral nature of the tangible/ intangible cultural heritage artifacts – archaeological remains, buildings, finds, manuscripts, myths, life histories, songs, stories – and the new virtual heritage artifacts we are producing in order to document, analyze, visualize and share our pasts through digital means.

VAST2008 is the 9th VAST Symposium, promoted by the EUROGRAPHICS Association and the European project EPOCH. It is being organized for the 1st time in Portugal, in Braga, from December 2-5 (VAST2008 with renewed website). Previous events received an average of 150 experts and scholars; the latest 3 were in Brighton, UK (VAST 2007), Nicosia, Cyprus (VAST 2006), and Pisa, Italy (VAST 2005).

VAST2008 joins the Coa Valley Archaeological Park (PAVC) in the 10th anniversary celebration of its Rock Art as World Heritage by UNESCO. After the symposium, the organization provides an 1.5 day field trip to Coa Valley Park (and a Douro Vineyard).

 

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News

 
October 14th
  • Hotel Booking note: if you plan to take advantage of the special deals we offer for the selected hotels, you should book using the form in this website. You may also not find available rooms, since we booked several for the event.
 
October 7th
  • Hotel Booking: the booking form for accomodation is now online. Please consider the detailed information at the hotel info page.
 
October 3rd
  • Conference Program: we have added the full papers info. Check the new detailed program.
 
October 1st
  • Practical Information: we published some instructions on how to get to Braga. If you have any doubts, please contact us.

 

September 29th
  • Registration: the registration system is fully operational; please note that all payments must be by VISA or Mastercard credit card.
  • 4th Call for Participation: was sent to several mailing lists to welcome and to encourage the participation on this event.
 
September 23th
  • Hotels: the organizing committee booked some hotels for your convenience. Consult here the details.
  • Conference Program: a first draft is available here.
  • Registration: due to issues out of our control, the registration system is still unavailable. To account for that, the early registration deadline will be postponed to October 13th.

 

August 18th
  • Workshops: now that four different topics were identified, we are looking for contributions. Consult here the details.
 
July 21st
  • Social Events webpage: it was finally prepared and is already online.
 
July 16th
 
July 14th
  • Extended deadline: due do technical problems in the submission site over the weekend, the deadline for ABSTRACT, workshop and tutorial's proposals submission was postponed to July 16th.

 

July 9th
  • Monastery of Tibães: it's available a brief description of this important monument. Check the Conferenve Venue section.
 
July 4th

 

July 3rd
  • UNESCO: the National UNESCO Commission in Portugal agreed to support the VAST2008 event.
  • Important dates: some deadlines were extended. Check the Important Dates page.
  • 3rd call for papers released.
  • RSS feed: starting today, VAST2008 website has a RSS feed available. Add it to your favourite RSS reader and stay updated with the latest VAST news.
June 20th
  • International Scientific Committee: list publicly available.

 

June 16th
  • Keynote speaker: we are happy to inform you that Alan Chalmers accepted our invitation to be a keynote speaker. His biography is also available.
 
June 10th
 
June 2nd
  • Keynote speakers: Ruth Tringham and Roberto Scopigno accepted our invitation. Read their bios on Keynote Speakers.
  • Submission system online: through cooperation with Eurographics, the 2008 submission system is online and OPEN. Please submit your abstracts as soon as possible to help us shape the scientific program.
  • All-in-One pass: a special "All-in-One" pass is offered, along with the usual promotions for Eurographics and EPOCH members. See Registration Info for more details.
  • Best Papers Award: the best papers presented at VAST 2008 will be selected for re-submission on a special edition of the upcoming ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH), an online, peer reviewed publication.