I am interested and impressed by the idea, an annual conference based around awards to heritage projects that have already won awards, a sort of "best of the best".The programme is here http://www.thebestinheritage.com/conference/programme/
I am still a little sketchy on their critieria but their instructions to the speakers gives some clues
http://thebestinheritage.com/conference/presenters-instruction/

1. Describe your institution
2. What was the history of the project: rationale, objectives, aims?
3. Who conceived the idea? Where the support came from? In what forms?
4. What was professional and social philosophy of your project? Is your project relevant for the national and community development? Does it help quality of living?
5. What was the particular quality or innovation that deserved to be awarded?
6. Do you consider your project being different from the others of the sort or better than them?
7. How did your project work regarding human resources? Who was engaged and what were the experiences?
8. What were the difficulties? Was anything easy?
9. How would you do it next time?
10. What are the experiences you would never repeat?
11. How do you define professional excellence?
12. Would you have any piece of advice for all who will enter some similar experience?

Please note:

Your presentation will make part of more than 130 hours of multimedia, highly interactive collection of the Excellence Club project presentations, at our web site and on DVD.

To stimulate quality of presentations and the attention of our participants we offer a prize for the best formal presentation.The winner, as voted by the audience present in Dubrovnik, is offered to present the project at The Best in Heritage Excellence Club, EXPONATEC fair (Cologne,Germany) at the invitation of Koelnmesse, comprising travel (any European destination), and board and lodging expenses.

14-17 May 2013, Chania, Crete, Greece

http://www.fdg2013.org/

We invite researchers and educators to submit to FDG 2013 and share insights and cutting-edge research related to game technologies and their use. FDG 2013 will include presentations of peer-reviewed papers, invited talks by high-profile industry and academic leaders, panels, and posters. The conference will also host a technical demo session, a Research and Experimental Games Festival, and a Doctoral Consortium. The technical demo session will include novel tools, techniques, and systems created for games. The Research and Experimental Games Festival will showcase the latest experimental and research games. The Doctoral Consortium serves as a forum for Ph.D. students to present their dissertation research, exchange experiences with peers, discuss ideas for future research and receive feedback from established games researchers and the wider FDG community.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Workshop proposals:

• Submission: 28 October 2012
• Notification: 11 November 2012

Papers, panel proposals, doctoral consortium:

• Submission: 10 December 2012
• Notification: 1 March 2013
• Camera-ready: 18 March 2013

Research and experimental game festival:

• Submission: 13 January 2013
• Notification: 22 February 2013
• Camera-ready: 18 March 2013

Posters and demos:

• Submission: 4 March 2013
• Notification: 18 March 2013
• Camera-ready: 31 March 2013

Open Systems http://www.caadria2013.org

The 18th International Conference of the Association of Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) May 15-18, 2013
National University of Singapore

http://www.caadria2013.org

Contemporary challenges require inclusively integrated approaches to designing. Constrained by established modes of practice, such integration is impossible without a radical commitment to openness. In response to this need, CAADRIA 2013 invites contributions that engage with open systems in all aspects of architectural and urban design: open with respect to the scale of the design objectives and the context, from a building component within a building system to a neighbourhood or city within its urban and rural context; open with respect to the domains being considered, from planning to sustainable performance of a building or city; open with respect to the collaboration of disciplines and participants, from ad-hoc brainstorming to a rigorous process of consultation and feedback; open with respect to design methods and techniques, from physical modelling to digital prototyping; open with respect to design models and representations being adopted, from a parametric exploration to an ontological delineation considering Building Information Modelling, Built Environment Modelling or City Information Modelling; open with respect to the tools and applications being adopted, despite interoperability issues, from modelling to simulation and assessment; open with respect to the learning approach being adopted, from informal interaction and sharing to formal design education; open with respect to the open source approach being adopted in research and development, in order to gather community involvement and use.

By focusing on the theme of Open Systems, CAADRIA 2013 aims to explore all these aspects and more, and raise awareness to the need of overstepping disciplinary boundaries and reaching creative communities at all levels of expertise, by pooling resources, knowledge and practices, and integrating them through the adoption of open systems.

CAADRIA 2013 invites submissions of original research papers and posters on topics in computational architectural design research, including but not limited to the following subjects:

• Computational design research and education
• Modes of production
• Digital fabrication and construction
• New design concepts and strategies
• Mass customization
• Collaborative design
• Digital aids to design creativity
• User participation in design
• Generative, parametric and evolutionary design
• Virtual architecture
• Shape studies
• Virtual reality and interactive environments

• Precedence and prototypes
• Ubiquitous and mobile design computing
• Design tool development
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Simulation, prediction, and evaluation
• City modelling
• Practice-based and interdisciplinary computational design research
• Theory, philosophy and methodology of computational design research

  Young researchers currently involved in postgraduate studies are invited to apply for the Young CAADRIA Award and to submit their research-in-progress to the CAADRIA 2013 Postgraduate Student Consortium.

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (CFP)

Interedition (http://www.interedition.eu) invites all interested scholars and hackers to participate in the upcoming Bootcamp, to be held alongside the DH2012 conference in Hamburg (http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/).

Interedition is raising the awareness of the importance of interoperability as a major driver for sustainability for tools and data in the field of digital scholarship. This activity takes two forms: firstly, meetings in which researchers in digital scholarship can network their knowledge of tools and the possibilities for their interoperability; secondly, the development of proof-of-concept implementations of interoperable tools.

The focus of this bootcamp is on tools and practices related to “digital collaboration” in all its forms. Topics and problems that could be addressed are (but certainly have not be limited to):

• real time multi-user resource editing (like in Google Docs)
• division of tasks and labour in user groups
• exchange of data between different tools applied by users
• sharing copyright protected data between users
• how do users share data but keep it identifiable as their intellectual property?
• tools for collaborative research
• tools for crowdsourcing (e.g. for text transcription)
• tools, processes, and methods for collaborative development within the Interedition community

The last point will be a focus of discussion as well as coding over the course of the bootcamp. Interedition has spent the four years of its tenure as a COST action advocating sustainable solutions for the development of digital tools; as we move into the next phase of our existence as an open-source development community, we will discuss and implement the infrastructure we need to sustain the community itself.

Participation in the bootcamp is free of charge, and is open to any interested participant subject to space constraint. If you wish to participate, please send a short summary of your background and current work (no more than 150 words) to bootcamp. Preferably also state the topics you’d like to work on during the bootcamp.

http://www.rinascimento-digitale.it/conference2012.phtml
CULTURAL HERITAGE on line 2012 Trusted Digital Repositories & Trusted Professionals

http://selection.datavisualization.ch/ and science videos http://www.cassiopeiaproject.com/faq.php thanks Drew for the link!

http://www.digitalhumanities.org/awards/ZampolliPrize
The Zampolli Prize is named in honor of Antonio Zampolli, one of the founders of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) and its president when he tragically died in 2003. The Prize is given to recognize an outstanding singular achievement in the Digital Humanities. The Prize will be inaugurated in 2011 and awarded triennially thereafter. Terms

The recipient receives a cash award of 1000 GBP and is expected to give a keynote or plenary lecture (on a topic of their choice) at the annual Digital Humanities conference. ADHO will host the recipient as a guest of honor for the conference at which the Prize is awarded and the lecture given—this means that all travel, accommodation and subsistence costs of the Prize recipient will be paid by the Association. Selection

The recipient is chosen by a selection panel formed by the ADHO Standing Committee on Awards, with a representative of that committee as chair. Normally, all members of the ADHO Awards Committee serve on the panel unless precluded by conflict of interest; others may be included at the discretion of the Committee. All constituent organizations should have at least one representative on the panel. The selection panel is responsible for soliciting and receiving nominations, reviewing the nominees’ work, selecting the recipient, and writing a citation describing the achievements in recognition of which the Prize is given. Schedule

The Prize will be awarded triennially, beginning with the 2011 annual conference. The normal schedule is:

0. In the year of the Prize lecture, the selection panel for the next awarding of the Prize is formed and announced. Solicitation of nominations begins at that annual conference and continues through the year until after the succeeding conference. The selection panel will establish specific dates and nomination procedures.
1. Following the first annual conference after the Prize lecture, the selection panel reviews the nominations to make their decision. They may seek additional information or documentation, if needed.
2. For the second annual conference, the panel reports their selection to the ADHO Steering Committee and executive committees of the constituent organizations, then formal public announcement is made at an appropriate plenary session of that conference—a year before the Prize is to be awarded.
3. During the third annual conference, the Prize is awarded again and the lecture given. At the same time, the cycle begins anew for the following three years.

ICAHM (ICOMOS’ International Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management) is pleased to announce its international conference on archaeological heritage management, to be held in historic Cuzco, Peru on November 27-30 of this year. Registration is now open. Abstracts should be submitted via the website.

Among the worldwide issues for consideration at this meeting are local stakeholder claims on archaeological heritage; sustainable development and community sustainability; tourism pressures and site preservation; heritage and rights; challenges to the validity and value of the World Heritage List as it quickly approaches 1,000 inscribed sites; the World Heritage List decision-making process; impacts of war, civil disorder, and natural disasters on archaeological sites; technical advances in archaeological heritage management.

While in Peru, you’ll have ample opportunities for tours of Cuzco, Machu Picchu and the Sacred Valley before and after the conference; please see our informational flier about the conference and its surroundings attached to this email and contact Happy Tours at tours for tour options.

ICAHM will publish the best papers from this annual meeting in its publication series with Springer Press, "Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Archaeological Heritage Management

We hope to see you in Peru! Feel free to email <melanie.kingsleywith any questions you might have and/or forward this email to anyone you think might be interested.

2nd Call for Papers | Rob|Arch 2012: Robotic Fabrication in
Architecture, Art, and Design | http://www.robarch2012.org
Workshops: 14.-16.12.2012 / Conference: 17.-18.12.2012
ROB|ARCH has been initiated by the Association for Robots in ROB|Architecture as a new conference series on the use of robotic fabrication in architecture, art, and design, closely linking industry with cutting-edge research institutions.
For the first time, ROB|ARCH 2012 will bring together international university partners who will open their robotic research labs to a creative use and present an insight in their applied robotic research at various locations throughout Europe. While the international workshops will be distributed at university partners, the following conference will take place in Vienna, a city well known for its living quality, but also a hotspot for technology and innovation.
The internationally renowned publishing house Springer Wien/New York will publish and market the proceedings of the conference worldwide with the following topics:
-design to robotic fabrication
-rapid prototyping with industrial robots -mass customisation -robots beyond industrial uses -robotic aesthetics -customized robotics -digital and physical robotic interfaces

Paper Submission
We invite authors to submit papers with original research relating to the use of robots in architecture, art, and design. An international scientific committee consisting of researchers and practising architects will evaluate the papers and provide feedback to the authors. The selected papers are published in the Springer proceedings and presented at the conference in Vienna.
Electronic Submission of Abstracts 04.06.2012 Electronic Submission of Full Papers 16.07.2012 Author notification 10.09. 2012 Final Paper due 01.10.2012