Also, pardon me if I correct the English, but you should say "Please, send your proposal for a 20 minutes or for a poster in English, German, Italian, French, Dutch or Spanish on or before May 15th, 2011"  and "Selected papers will be published in the “ Archiv für Diplomatik” upon invitation by the editors." 

Finally: "Each speaker is asked to provide extensive abstracts of his paper in at least two of the conference languages at the latest at the start of the conference."  This sentence is not clear.  What do you mean by abstract?  Is this the conference proposal?  Is it for the proceeding?  If so, what is the deadline for submitting the abstract?  How extensive is extensive (1 page, 2, 3, 2000 words?). 

As a requirement it is absurd.  The abstract should be submitted in one of the 5 languages if the conference has five languages.  Otherwise the conference does not have 5 languages and you are just trying to increase the probability that the participants can understand the abstract. Well, it would not work.  If one submits an abstract in Italian and German, I bet that most English speaking people who are not classic diplomatists would not read either language.  If this is an interdisciplinary conference, you want to open it up to as many disciplines as possible, especially information science.  Asking these professionals, mostly from North America, to provide a translation in another language of a very long abstract will put them completely off.    

My two cents.

Luciana

At 02:10 PM 25/01/2011, you wrote:

Hi Georg:

In the program committee for the conference, would you please change my affiliation?  The name of my University is the University of British Columbia.  Thanks, Luciana

At 11:46 PM 24/01/2011, you wrote:

*** appologies for cross-posting ***

The study of medieval legal documents (charters, deeds, instruments ...)
makes increasingly use of digital tools. The massive growth of documents
online - as images, as calendars, as texts - and the attempts made to
analyze and discuss diplomatics in the web has motivated us to organize
a second international conference on "Digital Diplomatics". It will take
place in Naples 29.9.-1.10.2011 and we are looking for proposals. You
can find the full presentation of the conference at

http://www.cei.lmu.de/digdipl11/

We would like to encourage in particular young scholars and graduate
students to present their ideas and projects on using the new
technologies for studying old documents. Travel grants will be provided.

We are looking forward to hear from you

for the organization comitee

Georg Vogeler

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Dr. Georg Vogeler
Historisches Seminar - Historische Grundwissenschaften
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universtitaet Muenchen
Post: Geschwister-Scholl-Pl. 1 - D 80539 Muenchen
e-mail: g.vogeler@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
http://www.hgw.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/personen/mitarbeiter/vogeler/

Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik < http://www.i-d-e.de >
Association Paléographique Internationale - Culture . Ecriture . Société
(APICES) < http://www.palaeographia.org/apices/apices.htm>

Dr. Luciana Duranti
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Director, The InterPARES Project www.interpares.org
Director, Digital Records Forensics Project www.digitalrecordsforensics.org
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