期刊名称：ACM JOURNAL ON COMPUTING AND CULTURAL HERITAGE ISSN： 1556-4673 出版频率： Quarterly 出版社： ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY, 2 PENN PLAZA, STE 701, NEW YORK, USA, NY, 10121-0701   出版社网址： http://dl.acm.org/ 期刊网址： http://jocch.acm.org/ 影响因子： 2.02 主题范畴： COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS 变更情况： 期刊简介(About the journal)    投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)    编辑部信息(Editorial Board)    About the journal ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH) Publishes papers of significant and lasting value in all areas relating to the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in support of Cultural Heritage About ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH) publishes papers of significant and lasting value in all areas relating to the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in support of Cultural Heritage. The journal encourages the submission of manuscripts that demonstrate innovative use of technology for the discovery, analysis, interpretation and presentation of cultural material, as well as manuscripts that illustrate applications in the Cultural Heritage sector that challenge the computational technologies and suggest new research opportunities in computer science. The field Cultural Heritage spans many distinct sub-areas, which may be divided into two major classifications: tangible heritage, such as the discovery, documentation, organization, interpretation and communication of artifacts, monuments, sites, museums, and collections (including digital archives, catalogues and libraries); and intangible heritage, such as music, performance, storytelling, and mythology. In addition, the increasing volume of digital cultural artifacts and collections is becoming an important body of heritage content in its own right. Submissions that have led to actual cultural applications are particularly welcomed. JOCCH indexing   JOCCH indexed on SCOPUS The figures available on April 2016 at https://www.scopus.com/source/sourceInfo.uri?sourceId=19400157014&origin=resultslist are: SJR (SCImago Journal Rank) (2014) : 0.437 IPP (Impact per Publication) (2014) : 0.900 SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) (2014) : 1.676 where: SJR = SCImago Journal Rank is weighted by the prestige of a journal. Subject field, quality and reputation of the journal have a direct effect on the value of a citation. SJR also normalizes for differences in citation behavior between subject fields. IPP = Impact per Publication (IPP) measures the ratio of citations per article published in the journal. SNIP = Source Normalized Impact per Paper measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field. JOCCH indexed on ISI We are pleased to inform you that the Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage has been accepted by ISI to be included into the Science Citation Index Expanded and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Coverage will begin with V7(1) 2014, making the journal eligible for its first Impact Factor with next year’s JCR (2017). This is an important achievement: the selection process by ISI is a very tough process and receiving ISI's IF qualification is a key result for JOCCH and its authors.   Instructions to Authors Author Guidelines Topical Scope   The Cultural Heritage sector spans many distinct sub-areas, which may be divided into two major classifications: Tangible heritage, such as the discovery, documentation, organization, interpretation and communication of artifacts, monuments, sites, museums, and collections (including digital archives, catalogues and libraries); Intangible heritage, such as music, performance, storytelling, and mythology. At the interface between these two areas lies the area of historical and cultural interpretation. The increasing volume of digital cultural artifacts and collections is becoming an important body of heritage content in its own right. Finally the area of collections, their organisation, cataloging, management and interrogation is also an area of interest for the journal. Topics include (but are not limited to) the following areas: On-site and remotely sensed data collection Enhanced 2D media for CH 3D digital artifact capture, representation and manipulation Tools for reconstruction and processing of digital representations Metadata, classification schema, ontologies and semantic processing for CH multimedia repositories Analytic tools to assist scholars' research on collections or artifacts ICT assistance in monitoring and restoration Augmentation of physical collections with digital presentations Virtual and Augmented Reality technologies for virtual and digital museums Human-Computer interfaces for virtual and digital museums Story-telling and other forms of communication, multimedia systems Serious games Web-based and mobile technologies for CH Long term preservation of digital artifacts Provenance, copyright and IPR Digital capture and annotation of intangible heritage (performance, audio, dance, oral heritage) ICT technologies in support of creating new cultural experiences or digital artifacts Applications (e.g. in Education and Tourism) JOCCH seeks content that combines the best of computing science with real attention to any aspect of the cultural heritage sector. Submissions are sought under two broad categories: Use-inspired Basic Research and Applied Research; and may be one of several types (see Type of papers): research paper; tutorial/survey; research note/short paper; software/algorithms; addendum/corrections; datasets. Please note this journal uses CrossCheck software to screen papers to ensure originality. By submitting your paper to JOCCH you are agreeing to any necessary checks your manuscript may undergo during the peer review process. For more information on CrossCheck see at http://www.crossref.org/crosscheck/crosscheck_for_researchers.html ACM has recently published new Fair Use Guidelines for authors whose manuscripts include third-party material. They can be found at http://www.acm.org/publications/guidance-for-authors-on-fair-use. ACM Policy on Authorship The new ACM Policy on Authorship states that anyone listed as Author on an ACM paper must meet all the following criteria: •    they have made substantial intellectual contributions to some components of the original work described in the paper; and •    they have participated in drafting and/or revision of the paper; and •    they are aware that the paper has been submitted for publication; and •    they agree to be held accountable for any issues relating to correctness or integrity of the work. Other contributors may be acknowledged at the end of the paper, before the bibliography, with explicitly described roles, preferably using the roles found in the CASRAI Contributor Roles Taxonomy at http://dictionary.casrai.org/Contributor_Roles. Type of papers Submissions are sought under two broad categories: Use-inspired Basic Research and Applied Research Contributions under the Use-inspired Basic Research category describe results which push forward the bounds of knowledge in computing science and are grounded on evidence-based need from the cultural heritage sector. Applied Research contributions take state-of-the-art results from general computing science and apply them to real data from the cultural heritage sector – evidencing their effectiveness with reference to feedback from intended beneficiaries. Submissions may be one of several types: Research paper: Presents results of original research, typically a long paper (10-20 print pages or 5,000-10,000 words). The primary purpose of a research paper is to present an interpretation based on the technology, where the interpretation advances cultural heritage studies and enhances our understanding of the technology. These papers should state clearly the interpretative problem that the research seeks to address and should explain why the technology that is employed advances the interpretation or enables a new type of analysis. Tutorial/Survey: Presents an overview of a topic in which the value of the synthesis lies in its ability to demonstrate important research problems or directions for further research, typically a long paper (10-20 print pages or 5,000-10,000 words). Research Note/Short Paper: Describes results of a single project or experiment that illuminates an important but limited issue or problem or extends understanding of an existing problem or technique, typically a short paper (3-5 pages or 1,500-2,500 words). Software/Algorithms: Describes and evaluates new software or algorithm and may be either a long paper (10-20 print pages or 5,000-10,000 words) or a short paper (3-5 pages or 1,500-2,500 words). If the primary purpose of the paper is to advance the technology with an application to cultural heritage studies, then it falls under this category but should be a long paper and should explain clearly the technological problem that the research addresses. Addendum/Corrections: Extends prior work or provides a clarification or correction, typically a short paper (3-5 pages or 1,500-2,500 words). Datasets: Describes a new or expanded dataset or data resource, which explains the structure of the dataset, its potential use and audiences, its innovative characteristics, access policies, archiving and preservation policies, and evaluation; may be either a long paper (10-20 print pages or 5,000-10,000 words) or a short paper (3-5 pages or 1,500-2,500 words). Please note that in order to be considered for publication the manuscript should present a sufficiently wide/general dataset. Therefore, the dataset should be able to support the research activity of a large community of researchers rather than a small and very specific research domain. We note that there are no required page lengths; the page lengths and word counts given above are provided as guidance and to suggest the scope of submission. Page counts will not be used to determine the eligibility of a submission for further review. However, length may be considered during the review process. Special Issues Periodically we will issue calls for submissions for Special Issues.  Please watch our "Announcements" page in the Editors section for upcoming calls. Format We prefer manuscripts submitted in PDF format, but can also accept PostScript or Microsoft Word documents. Supplementary electronic material can accompany a submission, and can be made available with the paper on the JOCCH web page immediately upon acceptance and in the ACM Digital Library after the submission is published. 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A paper previously published in a workshop, symposium or conference can be submitted to JOCCH for consideration if it contains sufficient new material, such as the exploration of effectiveness of novel techniques or technologies applied to digital data in genuine Cultural Heritage applications or the usability of tools or techniques by Cultural Heritage professionals in the field. In some cases papers submitted via this route will be considered on the recommendations of the International Program Committee of related conferences affiliated to ACM or ACM special interest groups. The ACM Author Representations Policy can be found at: http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/author_representations. Process JOCCH accepts submissions electronically via Scholar One Manuscript . Authors should create an account and password, login selecting “Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage”, and proceed to the Author Center to submit a manuscript. For a quick Author guide, see: Author.pdf A submitted paper will then follow a process before receiving recommendation for publication in JOCCH: The information director first checks the submission for completeness and notifies the Editor-in-Chief. The Editor-in-Chief then determines if the paper is appropriate for consideration by JOCCH and, if so, assigns it to an Associate Editor with the appropriate expertise in the area. In turn, the Associate Editor selects minimum 3 referees or reviewers with expertise both in the technical and the cultural heritage perspectives appropriate to the submission. To facilitate this selection process, it is encouraged to use appropriate keywords to describe the content of the submission. The referees read the submission and assess it against the criteria for inclusion in the journal including novelty, impact, correctness and relevance to the cultural heritage sector. Each referee returns its review and recommendations on the acceptability of the submission to the Associate Editor; who in turn makes a final recommendation to the Editor-in-Chief. The Editor-in-Chief, based on the reviews and recommendations, takes a decision on the acceptability of the submission, and communicates to the author this decision along with the referees’ comments. The decision may take one of four forms: Acceptance: The submission is accepted as is or subject to minor amendments which do not require an additional full refereeing process. In this case, you will be required to submit your final version, production files and a signed copyright form: http://www.acm.org/publications/copyright_form/ Major/Minor revision: The submission is appropriate but elements of it require a level of improvement which means that an additional full cycle of reviewing will be required. These changes can be minor or major changes according to the referees’ opinion. The revision’s review would normally be undertaken by the original referees unless there were specific needs for additional opinions. In order to achieve timely publication the authors will normally be given a maximum of 30 days (for minor changes) or 45 days (for major changes) to make the required changes and acceptance of the revised submission will need to take into account relevant developments since the original submission. Reject and resubmit: The submission requires major improvements; hence a new submission is required. It might be the case that the Editor-in-Chief recommends to resubmit according to another type category, so a full restructuring of the paper will be required. This resubmission should be submitted before the specified deadline and should take into account the reviewers comments and any relevant developments since the original submission. Reject: The paper is rejected on a basis described with the decision. 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Questions regarding the post-acceptance production process should be addressed to the Publisher, Laura A. Lander. Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief     Roberto Scopigno   ISTI - CNR   Pisa, Italy   Roberto Scopigno is a Research Director at the CNR-ISTI, an Institute of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), where he leads the Visual Computing Lab. He is currently engaged in research projects concerned with multiresolution data modeling and rendering, 3D scanning, surface reconstruction, scientific visualization, and applications to cultural heritage. He published more than 180 papers on international journals or conferences with a total of 5,608 citations and h-index 34, as reported by Google Scholar. Roberto has been Co-Chair of several international conferences and served on many IPCs. He was Editor in Chief of the journal Computer Graphics Forum (2001-2010), is an elected member of the Excecutive Committee of the Eurographics Asssociation since 2001 and served as general Chairman of the Eurographics Association (2009-2010).   Associate Editor and Information Director     Karina Rodriguez-Echavarria   University of Brighton   United Kingdom   Karina is a Lecturer at the University of Brighton. She obtained her (BEng) Computer Systems Engineering degree from the ITESM, Mexico in 1999; her PhD at the University of Wolverhampton in the area of knowledge-based engineering in 2005 and an MA in Histories and Culture at the University of Brighton in 2008. Karina works in the 3D-COFORM integrating project in the area of 3D visualisation and the deployment of these technologies in cultural heritage organisations. She previously participated in the European Network of Excellence EPOCH. Her research interests include the documentation and visualisation of heritage collections, information and knowledge management of 3D assets, and the practical aspects of deployment in the heritage sector.   Associate Editors     Juan A. Barcelo   Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona   Barcelona, Spain     Francesco Bellotti   University of Genoa   Italy   Francesco Bellotti is assistant professor at the University of Genoa, Italy, Dep.t of Naval, Electrical, Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering. His research interests include technology enhanced learning, serious games, Artificial Intelligence, cyber-physical systems and Human-Computer Interaction. He has authored 120+ papers on these items and participated in several European research projects (FP, LLP and Culture programmes) in the field of new media, cultural heritage and Human-Computer Interaction. In such projects he has been the responsible of the design and implementation workpackages, also participating with leading roles in the proposal preparation and overall management.     Pere Brunet   Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya   Barcelona, Spain     Livio de Luca   UMR CNRS/MCC MAP   Marseille, France   Livio De Luca is director of the CNRS-MAP (Models and simulations for architecture and cultural heritage) laboratory, a french research unit of the National Centre for Scientific Research and the Ministry of Culture and Communication working on the application of informatics technologies for the study of architecture considered in its heritage, constructive, urban and landscape dimensions. He received his PhD in digital engineering in 2006 at the 'Arts et Métiers Paris Tech' and his HDR (habilitation) in Computer Science in 2012 at the Aix-Marseille University. Member of several international scientific committees for the digital documentation of cultural heritage, his research activity focuses on digital surveying, modeling and representation of architectural heritage as well as on the development of semantic-based platforms for describing, analyzing, documenting and sharing digital representations of heritage buildings. He's currently the scientific advisor of the 'Culture 3D Clouds' project (a cloud computing platform for 3D digitization, documentation, preservation and dissemination of Cultural Heritage) within the framework of the french national plan 'Investment for the future - technology development for digitizing cultural, scientific and educational content' and of the ANR funded project MONUMENTUM (digital modelling and data management for the conservation of masonry structures). He's also involved in several EU Projects (3D-ICONS, V-Must, ITN-DCH,...). He was the technical chief of the '3D-monuments' project (french national program for monuments digitisation) and the scientific co-advisor of the ANR funded project SINETomb (3D information system for the study of the Qianlong's tomb in China). Since 2003 he has taught architectural digital surveying and representation at the IUAV in Venice (Italy), at the School of Architecture of Marseille (France) and at the 'Institut Image' of Chalon-sur-Saône.     Luciana Duranti   School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies, The University of British Columbia   Canada   Dr. Luciana Duranti is Chair of Archival Studies at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, and a Professor of archival theory, diplomatics, and the management and preservation of digital records in both its master's and doctoral archival programs. She is Director of the Centre for the International Study of Contemporary Records and Archives (CISCRA, www.ciscra.org), of the InterPARES Project – the largest and longest living publicly funded research endeavour on the long-term preservation of authentic electronic records (1998-2018), the 4th iteration of which is named InterPARES Trust (www.interparestrust.org) – and of the 'Digital Records Forensics' Project, the 'Records in the Clouds' Project, and of 'The Law of Evidence in the Digital Environment' Project. She has published widely on the trustworthiness of digital records and their long-term preservation. She has been guest editor of special issues of scholarly journals on records and information management, and is co-editor with Pat Franks of the 'Encyclopedia of Archival Science.'     Steve Griffin   University of Pittsburgh   United States   Stephen M. Griffin joined the faculty of the School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh as Visiting Professor and Mellon Cyberscholar in 2012. This followed a 32-year career at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Washington, DC in where he served as a Program Director in the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) for the period 1994-2011. Mr. Griffin managed a variety of influential research and infrastructure development programs related to the creation and integration of digital resources into research and scholarly activities. These programs included the Interagency Digital Libraries Initiatives and the International Digital Libraries Collaborative Research programs. He was a vocal and effective advocate for increased funding of computation and data-intensive research in cultural heritage informatics and digital humanities and arts. In 2004-2005 and again in 2010-2011 he was on special assignment to the Library of Congress, Office of Strategic Initiatives, to assist with planning the National Digital Information and Infrastructure Preservation Program and to serve as a senior advisor for digital content and repositories development. At the University of Pittsburgh Mr. Griffin is leading a major effort to develop new models of scholarly communication across disciplines. He also created and teaches a popular graduate course on digital scholarship, focusing on cultural studies, the humanities and fine arts. He serves on numerous domestic and international advisory committees related to digital libraries research, advanced computing applications and knowledge infrastructures.     Susan Hazan   The Israel Museum   Israel   In her role of Curator of New Media and Head of the Internet Office at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Dr. Hazan’s responsibilities include: identifying, and implementing digital solutions for the gallery, online and mobile platforms and outreach programs. Her Masters and PhD at Goldsmiths College, (2004) University of London in Media and Communications focused on electronic architectures in the contemporary museum. Hazan has been recognized for her numerous publications on new media in education, art, museums and cultural heritage, and is currently investigating social networks, innovative platforms for disseminating virtual museum, and digital libraries in the context of cultural heritage.     Win Hupperetz   Allard Pierson Museum, University of Amsterdam   Netherlands   Wim Hupperetz (1966) is director of the Allard Pierson Museum, the archaeology museum of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He studied Ancient History and Provincial Roman Archaeology at Radboud University in Nijmegen. In 2004 he defended his PhD thesis at he University of Tilburg - on The memory of a street - Eight hundred years of living in the Visserstraat in Breda. He is a heritage specialist in the field of museology, (Roman and late medieval) archaeology, castles, housing culture, cultural landscape and urban environment focused on extra value by digital and virtual media and a multidisciplinary approach. Specialized in the development of concepts and research on historical and archaeological exhibitions. He is advising on heritage (policy) related to museology, archaeology, cultural landscape and urban environment. His approach is focusing on multidisciplinary research: combining archaeology, historical research on archives and architectural history. He founded a northern European museum network (COBBRA) and is involved in several EU funded projects that aim at providing heritage professionals technological tools for the creation of, respectively, digital museum tools and smart exhibits.     Xuelong Li   Chinese Academy of Sciences   China   Xuelong Li is a National Distinguished Chair (via Thousand Talents Program, the Recruitment Program of Global Experts of China) with The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He is the founding director of the Center for OPTical IMagery Analysis and Learning (OPTIMAL) at Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics of CAS, and is an associate director of two key laboratories, namely the State Key Lab of Transient Optics & Photonics and the CAS Key Lab of Spectral Imaging Technology. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, IEE/IET, SPIE, OSA, BCS, HEA, and IAPR. He was the founding chair of IEEE SMCS Technical Committee on Cognitive Computing.     Francis T. Marchese   Pace University   United States   We are sorry to have to convey the sad news that Francis died on September 21st, 2015 after a long and painful illness. We are all saddened by his passing. Francis contributed to the journal till his last days, always in an extremely professional and friendly manner. We will all miss Francis a lot. An obituary will be published in the next issue of ACM JOCCH. Frank Marchese earned a PhD in chemistry from the University of Cincinnati. He was a Professor of Computer Science at Pace University, where he taught visual computing and software engineering; and was founder and co-director of the Pace Digital Gallery, an internationally recognized venue for curated exhibitions in digital art and technology. He was a visiting scholar at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts studying the relation of text to imagery in medieval art; and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he studied museum curatorial practice. He chaired conferences and symposia on information visualization, image understanding, digital humanities knowledge visualization, and visualization, art, and design. His published research includes the development of novel user interfaces for visualization; construction of distributed, collaborative, and immersive visualization systems; design of evolutionary documentation to support the scientific research lifecycle; delivery of dynamic content to mobile devices; and the first application of software engineering methodologies for the facilitation of digital art production. He researched on the origins of information visualization as it evolved within medieval manuscripts, and the use of software engineering methods for the long-term (500 years or more) conservation of time-based digital art.     Mark Mudge   Cultural Heritage Imaging   United States   Mark Mudge is President and co-founder of Cultural Heritage Imaging (CHI) and the current Chairman of its Board of Directors. Mark’s academic training was in philosophy and sculpture. He worked as a professional bronze sculptor for a decade, casting his own work. His bronze work led him to digital 3D modeling environments and the laser-scanning capture tools that were just emerging in the late 1980s. Since then, for over 20 years, Mark has worked in 3D information capture environments and digital photography. Mark is a co-inventor, with Tom Malzbender of HP Labs, of the computational photography technique called Highlight Reflectance Transformation Imaging. Mark has published many articles and book chapters related to imaging scientific and cultural heritage materials, and he serves on several international committees, including the International Council of Museum (ICOM) Documentation Committee (CIDOC). To make CHI’s vision of the democratization of technology and the long-term preservation of knowledge a reality, Mark works to foster the adoption of robust and practical digital techniques. His work for CHI is focused on the ease of use, cost-effectiveness, and self-documentation of digital imaging techniques through new equipment designs, open source software, and methodology enhancements. His most recent efforts have been on enhancing the trustworthiness of 'born archival' images, building up the semantic richness of metadata records about digital representations, and easing the burdens of sustainable, long-term digital archiving.     András Patay-Horváth   Eötvös Loránd University   Hungary   András Patay-Horváth is a classical scholar, specializing in ancient Greek archaeology and history. He is assistant lecturer of the Institute of Ancient History at the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) and research fellow of the Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA), Budapest. His research focuses on ancient Olympia and on digital technologies applied to classical Greek sculpture and architecture. Currently he directs various projects concerning the virtual 3D reconstruction of the east pediment of the temple of Zeus at Olympia.     Sofia Pescarin   Virtual Heritage Lab, CNR ITABC   Italy   Sofia Pescarin, Archaeologist, Degree in Topography of Ancient Italy, PhD in History and Computing, Master in 'Technology of Museums', is a specialist in 3D survey, GIS, landscape reconstruction, virtual museums, open source applied to cultural heritage and virtual archaeology. She works as a researcher at the Institute of Technologies applied to Cultural Heritage of the National Council of Researches in Rome (CNR ITABC), in the Virtual Heritage Lab. Here she coordinates a research dedicated to 'Virtual Heritage' and has been the project coordinator of V-MUST.NET, FP7 ICT Network of Excellence focused on virtual museums (2011-2015). She is the chair of the Italian School of Virtual Archaeology (www.archeologiavirtuale.it) and the scientific director of Archeovirtual (www.archeovirtual.it). She has been co-chair of DigitalHeritage 2013 international congress (Marseille, 28th Oct – 1st Nov 2013) and of the international school 'drones in archaeology and cultural heritage' (Certosa di Pontignano, 17 – 27 Sept. 2013). Within V-MUST, she has recently coordinated the exhibition 'Keys to Rome' in 4 museums and co-directed the Italian chapter of the exhibition: 'Le chiavi di Roma. La città di Augusto' (Museo dei Fori Imperiali, 23th Sept 2014 – 10th May 2015).     Fabio Remondino   Bruno Kessler Foundation   Italy   Fabio Remondino graduated at TU Milan (Italy) in Environmental Engineering in 1998 and from 1999 until 2007 he worked as research assistant at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) where he also got his PhD in Photogrammetry. Since 2007, he is with FBK Trento leading now the 3DOM research unit (http://3dom.fbk.eu). Since 2013 he has the Italian scientific qualification as full university professor. His main research interests are in the field of automation in 3D recording and modelling as well as sensors and data integration. Author of over 150 scientific publications in journals and at international conferences and 4 books, he has won 10 awards for best papers at conferences, he organized 26 international scientific events and 29 summer schools for education and knowledge transfer. He is a member of the executive board of the International Committee for Documentation of Cultural Heritage (CIPA), President of ISPRS Technical Commission V on 'Close-Range Imaging, Analysis and Applications' and President of EuroSDR Commission I on 'Sensors, Primary Data Acquisition and Geo-referencing'. He regularly serves as a program committee member of international conferences and as reviewer for international journals.     Julian Richards   University of York   United Kingdom   Prof. Julian Richards, is Director of the Archaeology Data Service, and Co-Director of the ejournal Internet Archaeology. Julian's involvement in archaeological computing began in 1980 when he started his PhD research studying pre-Christian Anglo-Saxon burial ritual using the computing power of an ICL mainframe and an early Z80 micro-computer. In 1985 he co-authored the first textbook in archaeological computing for Cambridge University Press, and has subsequently written numerous papers and edited a number of books on the applications of information technology in archaeology, as well as on Anglo-Saxon and Viking archaeology. Julian is also Director of York's Centre for Digital Heritage, and from October 2013 he will be the founding Director of The White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities (WRoCAH).     Laurent Romary   Inria   France   Laurent Romary is Directeur de Recherche at Inria, France and guest scientist at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. He carries out research on the modelling of semi-structured documents, with a specific emphasis on texts and linguistic resources. He received a PhD degree in computational linguistics in 1989 and his Habilitation in 1999. During several years he launched and directed the Langue et Dialogue team at Loria in Nancy, France and participated in several national and international projects related to the representation and dissemination of language resources and on man-machine interaction. In particular, he coordinated the MLIS/DHYDRO, IST/MIAMM and eContent/Lirics projects. He has been the editor of ISO standard 16642 (TMF – Terminological Markup Framework) and is the chairman of ISO committee TC 37/SC 4 on Language Resource Management. He has been member (2001-2007) then chair (2008- 2011) of the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) council. In the recent years, he lead the Scientific Information directorate at CNRS (2005-2006) and established the Max-Planck Digital Library (sept. 2006-dec. 2008). He currently contributes to the establishment and coordination of the European Dariah infrastructure.     Robert Sablatnig   Vienna University of Technology   Vienna, Austria   Robert Sablatnig is an associate professor for Computer Vision, heading the newly established Computer Vision Lab at the Facultyof Informatics at the Viennna University of Technology. Since 2005 he is the Head of the Institute of Computer Aided Automation, engaged in research, project leading, and teaching. His research interests are 3D Computer Vision including Range Finder, Stereovision, Shape from X, Registration, Calibration, Robot Vision; Industrial Inspection, Automatic Visual Inspection, Video Data Analysis (Motion and Tracking), Document Analysis, and Applications in Industry and Cultural Heritage Preservation. He is author or co-author of more than 200 referred scientific publications published in journals, at several international conferences and workshops. He is the founding chair of IAPR-Technical Committee 19 concerned with Computer Vision for Cultural Heritage Applications and Vice President of the Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition (AAPR/ÖAGM), the Austrian branch of IAPR.     Filippo Stanco   University of Catania   Italy   Filippo Stanco received the degree in Computer Science from the University of Catania in 1999 and he received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Catania in 2003. From 2003 to 2005 he was research assistant at the University of Trieste and from 2005 to 2006 he was Research Assistant at the University of Catania on 'Image processing and computer graphics'. From 2006 to 2014 he is Assistant Professor with University of Catania. Since 2014 he is Associate Professor (INF/01) with the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania. He is the coordinator of the 'Archeomatica project' (www.archeomatica.unict.it) to develop new digital tools for the archaeological research and the preservation of Cultural Heritage. His research interests include digital restoration, zooming, super-resolution, artifacts removal, interpolation, texture and GIS. Filippo Stanco is teacher of 'Interazione e Multimedia' and 'Multimedia' at University of Catania, and 'Video and photo Editing' at the Academy of Fine Arts of Catania. He is editor of the book 'Digital Imaging for Cultural Heritage Preservation. Analysis, Restoration and Reconstruction of Ancient Artworks', CRC Press. He has published more than 100 papers in International journals and conferences. He is reviewer for several international journals, and he is a senior member of IEEE.     Didier Stricker   German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence   Germany   Didier Stricker is Professor in computer science at the University of Kaiserslautern and Scientific Director at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) in Kaiserslautern, where he leads the research department 'Augmented Vision'. He is honorary CEO of the International Network, GraphicsMedia.net, which includes prestigious organizations in the area of computer vision and graphics.