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Editor-in-Chief

David David Arnold, University of Brighton (UK)
Professor David Arnold is Dean of the Faculty of Management and Information Sciences and Professor of Computing Science at the University of Brighton, UK. Prof Arnold has a 30-year career of research in the design of interactive computer graphics systems and their applications in architecture, engineering, cartography, scientific visualisation, health and, for the past 10 years, cultural heritage. David is coordinator of a Network of Excellence called EPOCH (Excellence in Processing Open Cultural Heritage) – www.epoch-net.org – under the EC Framework 6 program. EPOCH focuses on the interaction between technology and cultural heritage and brings together 94 partners, with professionals applying IT to monuments sites and museums, archaeologists, conservators, policy makers and visitor centre managers.
David was the last “international region representative” on the Council of ACM and is a past Chair of EUROGRAPHICS. He was Chief Editor of EG’s Journal “Computer Graphics Forum”. Prof Arnold worked in international standards for 10 years and is on the Council of the UK Parliamentary Information Technology Committee (PITCOM).


Members of the Board

lon Alonzo(Lon) Addison, Special Advisor to the Director, UNESCO WHC (USA)
Alonzo (Lon) Addison is a technology strategist and information architect interested in the nexus of heritage, design, and visualization. He currently serves as Special Advisor to the Director of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization World Heritage Centre, guiding IT deployment in the heritage arena and UNESCO's World Heritage portal. He founded the University of California at Berkeley's Center for Design Visualization and in the early 1990's helped create the first high-accuracy long-range 3D laser scanner as Vice President of Cyra Technologies (now Hexagon/Leica Geosystems). He studied civil engineering, architecture, and computing at Princeton and Berkeley, is President of the Virtual Heritage Network, Vice President of the VSMM Society and of ICOMOS' International Scientific Committee for Interpretation and Presentation, Guest Professor at the R. Lemaire Centre for Conservation at the University of Leuven, and on the boards of the European EPOCH Network and Chinese Cultural Heritage Network.
Juan Juan Barcelo, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain)
Juan Barcelo works for the Dept of Pre-history, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. He is specialised in research in archaeological techniques and theory. He has developed computer applications in archaeology, notably in the domains of Spatial Analysis, Statistics, Artificial Intelligence and Computer aided Visualization. As archaeologist, he has done excavations in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Syria, Nicaragua and Argentina..
David Bearman, Archives & Museum Informatics (Canada)
David Bearman is President of Archives & Museum Informatics. He consults on issues relating to electronic records and archives, integrating multi-format cultural information and museum information systems and is Founding Editor of the quarterly journal Archives and Museum Informatics, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, in The Netherlands through 2000. Since 1991, he has organized and chaired the biennual International Cultural heritage Informatics Meetings (ICHIM), and more recently the annual Museums and the Web Conferences, as well as directing numerous educational seminars and workshops on related topics. Bearman is the author of over 165 books and articles on museum and archives information management issues.
Vito Vito Cappellini, Excellence Centre on Media Integration and Communication (Italy)
Vito Cappellini is Director of the Excellence Centre on Media Integration and Communication in Florence; amongst other research interests are: digital signal-image processing and art work analysis-restoration. He has published over 300 papers and has been Chairman of the International Workshops on "Time-Varying Image Processing and Moving Object Recognition" and Co-Chairman of the EVA FLORENCE Conferences. He was Director of the C.N.R. "Uffizi Project". He has been Dean of Engineering Faculty - University of Florence. He is Vice-President of the Foundation on Applied Meteorology.

Vittore Casarosa, University of Pisa (Italy)
Vittore Casarosa graduated in Electrical Engineering at the University of Pisa. After a few years spent as a researcher at CSCE (Center for Study of Electronic Computers), a research center newly (at that time) established in Pisa by CNR (the Italian National Research Council), he has spent many years in the R&D laboratories of IBM in Italy, France and in the US, doing and managing research mostly in image processing and networking. Since 1996 he is Research Associate of the Italian National Research Council, at the Institute for Information Science and Technology in Pisa (ISTI-CNR), where he is associated with the activities of the Multimedia Laboratory in the field of Digital Libraries. Since 1996 he holds a teaching assignment at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Pisa, where he presently teaches a course on “Technologies for e-Commerce”. Since 2007 he holds also a teaching assignment at the Free University of Bolzano, where he teaches a course on “Digital Libraries” in the frame of an international master in Language Technologies.
Alan Alan Chalmers, University of Warwick (UK)
Alan Chalmers is Professor of Visualisation in the Warwick Digital Laboratory at the University of Warwick. He has published over 150 papers in journals and international conferences on realistic computer graphics, parallel processing and virtual archaeology. He is Honorary President of Afrigraph, a former Vice President of ACM SIGGRAPH and Co-Chair of the Eurographics Workshop series on Graphics & Cultural Heritage. His recent work focuses on the synthesis of perceptually high-fidelity images in real-time. He has been working with archaeologists for many years to develop computer based approaches to enable the investigation of complex hypotheses concerning the archaeological record in safe, non-destructive and controlled environments.
Paolo Paolo Cignoni, CNR-ISTI (Italy)
Dr. Paolo Cignoni is a Senior Research Scientist with CNR-ISTI. He received a Ph.D. Degree in Computer Science at the University of Pisa in 1998. He has been awarded "Best Young Researcher" by the Eurographics association in 2004. His research interests cover Computer Graphics fields ranging from Level of Detail and out-of-core techniques for visualization and processing of huge 3D datasets, to 3D scanning data processing with a particular focus to its use in the cultural heritage field and to Scientific Visualization (molecular visualization and isosurface extraction). He has published more than ninety papers in international refereed journals/conferences and has served in the Program committee of all the most important conferences of Computer Graphics.
Dieter Dieter Fellner, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD) (Germany)
Professor Fellner joined Fraunhofer (IGD) from the Technical University of Graz, Austria. In Graz he had established the new Institute of Computer Graphics and Knowledge Visualization in 2006. Previously Professor for Computer Science at Technical University Braunschweig, Germany, where he has founded the Institute of Computer Graphics. Has worked at the University of Bonn, Germany, the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, and the University of Denver, Colorado. Dieter Fellner's research projects span areas from formal languages, telematics services, and user interface design, to software engineering, computer graphics and digital libraries. In the latter field he has coordinated a strategic initiative funded by the German Research Foundation from 1997 till 2005. He is a past Chairman of Eurographics and author of the German standard work on computer graphics (1988, 2nd ed. 1992) as well as co-authoring (with A. Endres) a book on digital libraries (2000). He entered the field of Cultural Heritage with his involvement in the project CHARISMATIC and subsequently with the EPOCH Network of Excellence, both funded by the European Union.
Edward Edward Fox, Virginia Tech (USA)
Director, Digital Library Research Laboratory, Virginia Tech. Many ACM connections and very visible in Digital Libraries research. For example - former Chair, IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries; Executive Director, Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations; Member, Advisory Group for Programmes on Digital Repositories and on Digital Asset Management and Preservation (assisting JISC, the NSF-equivalent in UK); and Member, Advisory Board, EU FP6 DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries – the DL version of the EPOCH (Excellence in Processing Open Cultural Heritage))
Bernard Bernard Frischer, University of Virginia (USA)
Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities and Professor of Classics and Art History at the University of Virginia. Trained as a Classicist, he is a leading scholar in the application of digital technologies to humanities research and education. Previously founder and director of the Cultural Virtual Reality Lab at UCLA, which uses three-dimensional computer modeling to reconstruct cultural heritage sites. Frischer has overseen many significant projects, including virtual recreations of the Roman Colosseum and the Roman Forum.
Web page: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/classics/faculty/frischer/
Ecaterina Ecaterina Geber, Canadian Heritage Information Network (Canada)
Kati Geber is Manager of Research and Business Intelligence Unit at the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN). She currently leads research on decision support for non-profit organizations that manage digital cultural content, and coordinates research with the Canadian museum community on a veriety of audience-related projects and towards developing scenarios on collaborative teams and institutional transformation implementing 21st Century skills and tools. A specialist in information architecture, Ms. Geber has worked in nearly every aspect of informatics in both the education and heritage sector: systems analysis, design, and programming; content management and high-level strategy; and managing varied projects and collaborative international initiatives. Ms. Geber 's other research areas include the quality of online products and how on-line heritage information spaces affect learning, communication, participation and engagement for audiences in diverse, distributed environments. Her articles examining the impact of the digital heritage experience on society have been published in numerous academic journals.

Anne Anne Gilliland-Swetland, University of California (USA)
Anne Gilliland is Chair and Professor of the Department of Information Studies, and Director of the Center for Information as Evidence, in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. Research interests: design and evaluation of recordkeeping and cultural information systems, metadata creation and management, cultural informatics, digital curation and digital asset management.
Stan Stan Katz, Princeton University (USA)
Stan Katz  is Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, is President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, the leading organization in humanistic scholarship and education in the USA. Mr. Katz is a leading expert on American legal and constitutional history. He is also active in the research field of arts and cultural policy, and currently serves as the Director of the Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies. He was one of the founders of the (alas late) National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage. He is trustee of the International Society for Cultural Property and a member of the National Historic Publications and Records Commission of the National Archives).
Web page: http://www.princeton.edu/~snkatz/
Lee Der-Tsai Lee, Academia Sinica (Taiwan)
Der-Tsai Lee, Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Distinguished Research Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan and Chief Executive Officer of the Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program, National Science Council, with additional research interests in Web-based Collaboratory, Algorithm Visualization, Digital Libraries and Information Security. Dr. Lee is Fellow of ACM, Fellow of IEEE, Member of Academia Sinica and the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World. He is also a recipient of 2007 Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany.
Web page: http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/~dtlee/
Tom Tom Moritz, Internet Archive (USA)
Tom Moritz has been a leading participant in international efforts to provide for open access and responsible use of knowledge resources in biodiversity conservation as well as in the natural and biological sciences. He has more recently shifted focus to the arts and humanities. He has worked as an advisor on knowledge management in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Pacific and Latin America and continues to serve as a member of the World Commission on Protected Areas of IUCN co-chairing the Information Management Task Force. He also serves as a member of the Interim Steering Committee for the Conservation Commons (http://www.conservationcommons.org/). He is a member of the Science Advisory Board for the US National Biological Information Infrastructure, the National Visiting Committee for the US National Science Digital Library (NSF), and has served/serves on numerous other advisory bodies, visiting committees and peer review panels. He is the author of many publications and presentations.
Niels Niels Ole Bernsen, University of Southern Denmark (Denmark)
Niels Ole Bernsen is Professor and Director of the Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory, University of Southern Denmark. He has done research in 28 international research projects on human-computer interaction, spoken dialogue systems, embodied conversational agents, multimodal interfaces, data annotation tools, virtual communities and collaborative computing. He coordinated the European Network for Intelligent Information Interfaces (i3net), was one the board of the International Human Frontier Science Program and the Language and Speech network ELSNET, and is on the board of the SIMILAR Network. He led the development of 3D photo-realistic fairy-tale author Hans Christian Andersen who conducts conversation with visitors in his study about himself, his life and fairytales.
Web page: http://www.nis.sdu.dk
Seamus Seamus Ross, University of Glasgow (UK)
Seamus Ross is Dean of the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. He was Founding Director of the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute [HATII] and Professor of the Humanities Informatics and Digital Curation, University of Glasgow, UK. Research Interests: Digital Repositories; Digital Asset Management; Integrity and Authenticity of Digital Objects; Semantic Web; Digital Preservation/Curation.
Web page: http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk
Holly Holly Rushmeier, Yale University (USA)
Holly Rushmeier received the BS, MS and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in 1977, 1986 and 1988 respectively. Currently a Professor of Computer Science at Yale University, she has held posts at IBM TJ Watson Research, the US National Institute of Standards and Techonology, and Georgia Institute of Technology. She has served as chair and editor for numerous computer graphics conferences and journals. Her research interests include capturing shape and appearance for computer graphics applications, data visualization and applying perceptual principles to rendering. Her work in Cultural Heritage includes creating a digital model of Michelangelo's Florence Pieta` for a study in art history, and the development of a scanning system to capture shape and appearance data for presenting Egyptian cultural artifacts on the World Wide Web.
Web page: http://graphics.cs.yale.edu/holly/
Rob Roberto Scopigno, CNR-ISTI (Italy)
Roberto Scopigno is  Research Director at the CNR-ISTI, an Institute of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), where he is part of the Visual Computing Lab. He is currently engaged in research projects concerned with multiresolution data modeling and rendering, 3D scanning, surface reconstruction, scientific visualization, volume rendering, and applications to cultural heritage. He published more than 120 papers on international journals or conferences and has been Co-Chair of several international conferences (e.g. Eurographics '99, Rendering Symposium 2002, Geometry Processing Symp. 2004) and served on many IPCs (ACM Siggraph, Eurographics, IEEE Visualization, etc.). Since 2001 he is Chief Editor of the Eurographics Journal, Computer Graphics Forum, and since 2004 is serving as Vice-Chairman of the Eurographics Association.
Alan Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University (Ireland)
Alan Smeaton is Professor of Computing, Director of the Centre for Digital Video Processing and member of the Adaptive Information Cluster at Dublin City University, Ireland. His research covers the development of techniques and tools to automatically analyse and index all kinds of digital information, especially video, and allow content-based operations such as browsing, searching, alerting, filtering and summarisation. He is coordinator of the annual TRECVid campaign to benchmark performance of over 70 research groups worldwide in techniques for video indexing and retrieval.
John John Tolva, IBM (USA)
John Tolva is Program Manager for Cultural Strategy and Programs for IBM. His work spans the fields of web design, user-centric solution design, cultural heritage, and new media. Since his work on the award-winning Hermitage Museum project in 1999 Mr. Tolva has primarily been involved in cultural applications of technology, particularly digitization, content management, and multimedia design. Recently he led the team that launched the Eternal Egypt Project, a partnership between IBM and the Egyptian Government. Mr. Tolva holds a Masters in Information Design and Technology from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Masters in English Literature from Washington University.

John maintains a blog at http://www.ascentstage.com.
James James Turner, Université de Montréal (Canada)
James Turner (Professeur titulaire, Ecole de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information, Université de Montréal) teaches in the areas of managing audiovisual collections, preserving digital information, and multimedia information systems. His research interests include indexing moving images, storage and retrieval of pictures, metadata for moving images in a networked environment, preservation of digital moving images, translingual storage and retrieval of multimedia objects, and audio description.

Luc Luc Van Gool, University of Leuven (Belgium)
Luc Van Gool is Professor of computer vision at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and the University of Leuven, Belgium. He leads a research group at both universities. His main interests in computer vision and graphics for cultural heritage include visual image retrieval, virtual and augmented reality, 3D acquisition and modeling, image-based rendering and texture analysis and synthesis. He is member of an interdisciplinary expertise center for archaeology CAS at the University of Leuven and the executive board of the European Network of Excellence EPOCH (IST for cultural heritage). He co-chairs IAPR's TC19 on Computer Vision for Cultural Heritage.

Information Director

Karina Karina Rodriguez-Echavarria, University of Brighton (UK)
Karina is a Research Fellow 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 in 2008. Karina worked for the European Network of Excellence EPOCH in the areas of technology development for Cultural Heritage applications. Her research interest include the areas of new technology for capturing, storing and presenting tangible and intangible Cultural Heritage; the assembly and visualisation of real time interactive virtual environments, including their usability; as well as cluster-based graphics visualisation.