{"id":9174,"date":"2013-08-12T05:20:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T10:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=9174"},"modified":"2013-08-12T05:20:48","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T10:20:48","slug":"electronic-media-group-call-for-papers-aic-2014-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2013\/08\/12\/electronic-media-group-call-for-papers-aic-2014-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Electronic Media Group Call for Papers, AIC 2014 Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Electronic Media Group (EMG) of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC) is calling for papers about the preservation and conservation of electronic media for the AIC annual meeting, May 28-31st 2014 in San Francisco, California. http:\/\/www.conservation-us.org\/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageId=482&parentID=476<\/a>
\nThe theme of the meeting is Conscious Conservation: Sustainable Choices in Conservation Care. Topics could include sustainability of analogue media formats, migration and emulation strategies, approaches to digital asset management and preservation, care of electronic media collections, and case studies of particularly challenging artworks.
\nIf your paper is accepted, you are expected to secure funding for your registration and travel expenses to attend the conference. See the AIC webpage for more information about grants and scholarships. – http:\/\/www.conservation-us.org\/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageId=474<\/a>
\nPlease join the conversation – Submit an abstract by Friday, September 13.
\nAbstracts will be considered for:
\nGeneral Sessions – General Session papers must specifically address the meeting theme. General Session papers will be considered for one of three categories: all attendee sessions, concurrent sessions, and concurrent interactive\/discussion sessions.
\nSpecialty Sessions – Specialty Session papers are encouraged to address the meeting theme but may also explore other topics relevant to that specialty, including: Architecture, Book and Paper, Collections Care, Electronic Media, Objects, Photographic Materials, Paintings, Research and Technical Studies, Textiles, and Wooden Artifacts.
\nPoster Session – Posters may address the meeting theme, but presenters can also address their current research interests. Posters are presented in the Exhibit Hall.
\nSubmission Guidelines
\nYou may submit an abstract for a combination of the three session types: General Sessions, Specialty Sessions, or Poster Session. You may submit your presentation to only one or two sessions if you so choose.
\nIf you are submitting a Discussion\/Interactive Session, please submit only for that, since the format is not compatible with the other General Session choices
\nPlease indicate on the abstract the session\/sessions for which you want the paper to be considered.
\nPlease limit your choices to three sessions and rank them in order of preference. For example, your preferences could be one of the following:<\/p>\n