Lecture Notes in Computer Science- P54:This year, we received about 170 submissions to ICWL 2008. There were a total of 52 full papers, representing an acceptance rate of about 30%, plus one invited paper accepted for inclusion in this LNCS proceedings. The authors of these accepted papers | 254 M. Spaniol et al. for Documentation and Conservation cooperates with international organizations as well as national institutions in the domain of cultural heritage preservation. In this context capacity-building activities in heritage management for Afghan experts and conservation work on some of the most important monuments in the country such as the UNESCO World Heritage Site Bamiyan are key projects. Activities take place in tight cooperation with national institutions and local experts such as the Society of the Preservation of Afghanistan Cultural Heritage SPACH 3 the Departments of Archaeology and Historical Monument Preservation of the Afghan Ministry of Information and Culture the National Research Institute of Cultural Properties Tokyo and with the participation of a new generation of scholars and students from the Kabul University. The creation of a UNESCO Cultural Master Plan for the World Heritage site of Bamiyan4 is one of the most important outcomes of the project. However it remains a difficult and complex task to recruit and coordinate a sufficient number of local and foreign experts to accomplish such an ambitious project. This is a typical example that acts as case study in this work We are trying to specify the exact position of a large piece of debris in one of the giant Buddha caves in Bamiyan. This is a necessary preprocessing step for a potential later relocation of fragments and reconstruction of the giant Buddha itself. As a capacity building measure experts instruct local heritage officials employed for the project to take photos of a stone fragment with a GPS-enabled camera 6 . But quality of the resulting data tends to be rather poor as the local employees have problems at using the equipment in the pre-defined sequence or they simply forget to reset the GPS bearing settings after a photo has been taken because the overall purpose of this activity is not fully understood for a variety of reasons. While educational infrastructures .
