Subject: Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative: Conference June 16-21 (Sydney)
NINCH-ANNOUNCE (david@ninch.org)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 09:58:19 -0500
Message-Id: <v0421010db6dfc19df088@[192.100.21.23]> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 09:58:19 -0500 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> Subject: Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative: Conference June 16-21 (Sydney)
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
March 22, 2001
Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
http://www.ecai.org/
Towards an Electronic Cultural Atlas:
E-Publishing and data interoperability in the Humanities
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Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative Conference
June 12-16 2001: University of Sydney, Australia
http://www.archaeology.usyd.edu.au/ecai_2001/
>Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 15:47:41 +1100
>From: Elizabeth Black <black@acl.archaeology.usyd.edu.au>
>Subject: Call for Papers - ECAI Conference
Hello - I am sending some information which might be of interest to you,
your members and departments and to the people who visit your site. The
Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative is a collaborative project which
will combine global mapping, imagery, and texts. ECAI provides scholars
and other users with a research resource based on digital technology
which can present complex combinations of data from multiple disciplines
visually and immediately.
The ECAI Conference at the University of Sydney in June 2001 will be an
exciting forum for leading-edge cross-disciplinary discussions and we
welcome participation either as presenters or attendees. To get an idea
of the range and diversity of ECAI'sprojects, you can visit their site
at http://www.ecai.org/
I would appreciate it if you could forward this message to departments,
colleagues, students or members who may be interested in this
interchange between technology and the humanities, and post it to any
lists which may be related, such as archaeology, cultural studies,
heritage management, geography and spatial information.
Many thanks, and please accept my apologies if I have cross-posted or if
this reaches you in error. I have attached an .html file if it is more
appropriate to your needs than email text.
Elizabeth Black
Assistant, ECAI 2001
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Towards an Electronic Cultural Atlas:
E-Publishing and data interoperability in the Humanities
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Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative Conference
12 - 16 June 2001, University of Sydney, Australia
Online registration, provisional conference program and further
information: http://www.archaeology.usyd.edu.au/ecai_2001/
Abstract deadline 15th April 2001. Acceptance 30th April 2001.
Email abstracts to johnson@acl.archaeology.usyd.edu.au
This year's mid-year meeting of the Electronic Cultural Atlas
Initiative (ECAI) will emphasise the following themes through six
half-day work sessions and a two day public conference:
Methodology
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O Electronic publishing of data-rich Humanities resources, with a
particular emphasis on spatial and temporal data.
O Issues of capturing and delivering historic maps, historical data and
historic images on the Internet
O Building links between large online Humanities data collections
through
cross-collection search protocols and metadata
Thematic and Regional Teams
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O South Asia regional team (Convenors John McGuire and Maggie
Exxon, Curtin University)
O Trade routes and exchange thematic team (Convenors Matthew Ciolek,
ANU and Jack Owens, Idaho State University)
PROGRAM
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Mon 11 June (Public Holiday)
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ECAI Editors meeting
ECAItech meeting
Joint Editors/ECAItech meeting.
Tues 12 - Wed 13 June: ECAI Conference (open registration)
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ECAI e-publication presentations, formal papers, posters, demos, open
to all. The conference organisers invite proposals for presentations
on any relevant topic (20 mins or 10 mins), posters or demos. The
conference will emphasise general issues of e-Scholarship, digital
libraries and the content side of ECAI - technical issues will be
emphasised in the work
sessions (14 - 16 June).
A poster and demonstration space will be available at scheduled times
during the conference. There will be limited space for vendor
demonstrations relevant to the conference themes - please contact
conference organisers for information.
Venue: Eastern Avenue conference centre, University of Sydney
Thu 14 - Sat 16 June: Work sessions (ECAI members only)
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For ECAI membership enquiries please contact ECAI coordinators (see
http://www.ecai.org). If you are interested in particular workshops,
please indicate on the conference online registration form.
Work sesssions (list below) are aimed at developing and updating ECAI
'white papers' on specific topics, and generate a set of proposals,
responsibilities and implementation schedules for technical and content
aspects of ECAI.
A poster and demonstration space will be available for ECAI work in
progress (demonstrations will be scheduled during lunch breaks each day
to avoid conflict with work sessions).
Venue: 3rd floor, Eastern Avenue conference centre, University of Sydney
The proposed half-day work sessions are as follows. Two sessions will
generally be run in parallel, and we will optimise the choices to minimise
conflicts for the key members of each workgroup (indicate your particular
interests on the conference registration form).
1. South Asia team
2. Trade routes and exchange team
3. E-Publishing. Strategies for creating publications with persistence and
profile, including composite documents and data publication
4. Historic maps and images: Methods of handling large images, including
geocoding and serving historic maps, compression schemes, creation of image
databases and linking image databases to map locations
5. Historical GIS: Methods for creating, managing and analysing cultural
and demographic information tied to historical boundaries, including
presentation methods such as animation
6. Metadata interoperability: Linking large metadata collections with the
ECAI clearinghouse (models for sharing metadata, searching across
collections, common interfaces and information delivery)
7. Gazetteers: Design and delivery of gazetteers, interoperability,
feature type thesauri, placename thesauri usable as geographic
reference, geocoding
8. Visualisation: Speculative session to map out our directions in
multimedia GIS, 3D modelling and virtual worlds, gaming engines, map
animation, simulation modelling and the creation of educational
products based on these technologies
9. Documentation and training: development of documentation standards,
documentation of procedures for registering and serving ECAI datasets,
development of training materials such as video or interactive
multimedia, development of an ECAI knowledgebase
10a. Copyright, Intellectual Property and encryption
10b. Cartographic standards
10c. Character coding and multilingual issues
10d. Base data: Sources of basemap information, licencing, Digital Earth,
OGIS, delivery - availability online or serving by ECAI,
symbolisation
Tues 19 - Sat 23 June: 'Workshop' at the ACL (ECAI members only)
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Workshop at the Archaeological Computing Laboratory, University of Sydney
to develop implementations, showcase materials and assist ECAI members
with data preparation and publishing in the ECAI metadata clearinghouse.
Accommodation
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We have block booked some economical accommodation close to the
University. Other hotels in the area are indicated on the conferecne
website. Most have online booking.
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Ian Johnson [johnson@acl.archaeology.usyd.edu.au]
Director, Archaeological Computing Laboratory
Senior Research Fellow, School of Archaeology
A14 University of Sydney NSW 2006, Australia
+61 (0)2 9351 3142 tel
+61 (0)2 9351 6392 fax
+61 (0)402 389 190 mobile
http://www.archaeology.usyd.edu.au/
TimeMap Project
http://www.TimeMap.net
An Associate of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
http://www.ecai.org
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