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CAA 2009 "Making History Interactive" March 22-26, 2009 Williamsburg, Virginia


Registration:

REGISTER at http://caa2009.org. Here is a simple walkthrough on how to register for the conference.

 

Monday 23rd March 2009

 


SESSION 1:
"Frontiers of Digital Culture"

Panel Chair: Lewis Lancaster, UC Berkeley

Steve Griffin
(keynote speaker)
National Science Foundation
"Developments in Digital Representation of Matieral Culture" [Abstract]

Ian Johnson

University of Sydney
"Reinventing the ECAI Clearinghouse - a Web 2.0 approach to research data" [Abstract]

Maurizio Forte
UC Merced
"The Virtual Museum of the Western Han Dynasty" [Abstract]

SESSION 2: "Technology and Cultural History"

Panel Chair: Michael Buckland, UC Berkeley

Lewis Lancaster
University of California, Berkeley
"Archive as Event" [Abstract]

Jeanette Zerneke
University of California, Berkeley
"Issues in Visualizing History - Early california Culture" [Abstract]

Ruth Mostern
University of California, Merced
"The Digital Gazetteer of Song Dynasty China" [Abstract]

SESSION 3: "Creating Digital Human Records"

Panel Chair: Timothy Tangherlini, UC Los Angeles

David Blundell
National Chengchi University, Taiwan
"Initiating a Sustainable Ethnographic Cultural Atlas from Grassroots" [Abstract]

Jiang Wu
University of Arizona
"Progress in the Buddhist GIS Project" [Abstract]

David Germano
University of Virginia
"Participatory Knowledge, Historical GIS, Tourism, and Ethnography: The Integrated Study of Tibet in Place" [Abstract]

MEETING: ECAI Community Meeting 3:00 - 5PM Location TBA

 

Tuesday 24th March 2009

 

 

SESSION 4: "Digital Mapping as Communication"

Panel Chair: Paul Ell, Queens University, Belfast

Susan Whitfield
IDP, British Library
"Mapping the Silk Road" [Abstract]

Jiangxiong Ge
Fudan University
"GIS and Cultural Data" [Abstract]

Gary Flint
Mountain Songs
"www.MountainSongs.net" [Abstract]

SESSION 5: "e-Resource - Space, Time and Text"

Panel Chair: Susan Whitfield, British Library

Paul Ell
Queens University, Belfast, Ireland
"Structure or Serendipity: e-Resource development in Ireland, a case study" [Abstract]

Tracy Neal Leavelle
Creighton University
"Locating Missions in Space and Time: Lessons from the North American Missions Project" [Abstract]

Felicity Morel-Ednie Brown
Department of Premier & Cabinet, West Australia
"EarthTextSpaceTime: making historical sources in cities available through the agency of GIS" [Abstract]

SESSION 6: "Inventing Paths in Digital Data"

Panel Chair: David Blundell, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Michael Buckland
iSchool, University of California, Berkeley
"Empowering Readers to Find Explanations: A 4W Approach" [Abstract]

Howie Lan
University of California, Berkeley
"Blue Dots - Visualization of Text Corpus" [Abstract]

Ruzena Bajcsy
Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
"Tele immersive environment: Meeting history in present" [Abstract]

MEETING: ECAI Executive Meeting, Time & Location TBA

 

Wednesday 25th March 2009

 


SESSION 7: "Technology for Recreating the Past"

Panel Chair: Jiang Wu, University of Arizona

Tim Tangherlini
University of California, Los Angeles
"Folklore Excavations: Machine Learning and Historical GIS in a Folklore Corpus" [Abstract]

Fan I-chun
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
"Taiwan and Mainland China's Folklore Relilgion in Terms of GIS and GPS" [Abstract]

Shoichiro Hara
Kyoto University, Japan
"Spatiotemporal Tools and Metadata for Area Studies" [Abstract]

SESSION 8: "Text, Artifact and Narrative"

Panel Chair: Ruth Moster, UC Merced

Dorothy Wong
University of Virginia
"Silk Road - Path of Transmission of Avalokitesvara" [Abstract]

Miroj Shakya
University of the West
"A Sankrit Buddhist Canon for the 21st Century" [Abstract]

Hau Le Choung
Vietnam Buddhist University
"Mapping Buddhism in Vietnam" [Abstract]

 

MEETING OF INTEREST:

From Acess to Collaboration and Synthesis: How do we get there? (Round Table)
[PDF description]
Wednesday, March 25th, 3:15 - 5:30 PM Room Tidewater C

 

Thursday 26th March 2009

 


MEETING OF INTEREST:


GIS Applications (General Session) [PDF description]
Thursday, March 26th, 8:30 - 11:45 AM Room Tidewater C