Tues 12 - Wed 13 June 2001

Towards an Electronic Cultural Atlas: E-publishing and Knowledge Management in the Humanities

Venue: Level 2, Eastern Avenue Complex, University of Sydney. 

Registration (A$150 = approx. US$80, students 50%) includes conference program, tea, coffee, refreshments and a light luncheon. Online registration system

Programme revised 8th June. Timing and session structure may be subject to minor revisions. Additional lunchtime demos can be accommodated - contact johnson@acl.archaeology.usyd.edu.au

Download ABSTRACTS here (RTF file, readable by all wordprocessors). 

TUESDAY 12th June

Registration from 9am, Eastern Avenue Complex foyer (ground floor)

Opening plenary: e-Scholarship and Knowledge Management (Tues 10.30 - 11.15)

10.30 - 10.40 Welcome by Professor Gavin Brown Vice-Chancellor, University of Sydney

10.40 - 10.50 Welcome to Country. Michelle Blanchard, A/Director Koori Centre, University of Sydney

10.50 - 11.15 ECAI and e-Scholarship: charting the future
Emeritus Professor Lewis Lancaster, ECAI Director, University of California Berkeley

Morning break 11.15 - 11.45

11.45 - 12.05 Knowledge management and the role of institutions
Des Griffin, former Director, The Australian Museum, Sydney

12.05 - 12.20 eScholarship in 2001: old meets new
Catherine Candee, Director of e-Scholarship, California Digital Library  

12.20 - 12.40 Digital earth, digital people: where is the Humanity in GIS?
Karen Kemp, Environmental Studies Program, University of Redlands, California

12.40 - 1 The ECAI Clearinghouse: an interactive map portal to cultural data
Ian Johnson, Director, Archaeological Computing Laboratory, University of Sydney

Lunchtime demos (Tues 1 - 2)

Sydney TimeMap: an interactive kiosk at the Museum of Sydney
Andrew Wilson

"Time Machine" software: a time and map-based approach to presenting history
John Hagstrand, Interage Research, Chicago  

What difference did slavery make? Historical GIS in the Valley of the Shadow
Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia

GIS, databases and the web 1  (Tues 2 - 4)

2 - 2.20 Placing Buddhist art in geographic context on the web
Janice Glowski, Director, Special Collections, The Huntington Archive, Ohio State University

2.20 - 2.50  Center for the Analysis of Sacred Space:  Mapping sacred sites in India and China
William Powell, Jeanette Zerneke, Cory Redmond. University of California Santa Barbara (Powell, Redmond) and University of California Berkeley (Zerneke)

2.50 - 3.10 Travelling the Silk Road from the desktop: Stein's expeditions online
Susan Whitfield, Director, International Dunhuang Project, British Library

3.10 - 3.20 Stein's expeditions online (demo)
Colin Chinnery, International Dunhuang Project, British Library

3.20 - 3.40 Images of India: A British Library/University of Chicago collaborative project
James Nye (University of Chicago Library) and John Falconer (British Library)

3.40 - 4 Working with historical complexity in the virtual landscape: The South Seas Project
Paul Turnbull, Humanities, James Cook University / Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University

Afternoon break 4.00 - 4.30

GIS, databases and the web 2 (Tues 4.30 - 6.40)

4.30 - 4.50 Sydney TimeMap: building a historical GIS
Andrew Wilson, Archaeological Computing Laboratory, University of Sydney

4.50 - 5.10 From ‘caring’ to clearing: A GIS approach to understanding cultural change and its impact on the Sydney landscape.
Bess Moylan, Archaeological Computing Laboratory, University of Sydney

5.10 - 5.30 Mapping genocide: Internet GIS as communication
Helen Jarvis & Nereida Cross, Cambodian Genocide Documentation Project, University of New South Wales

5.30 - 5.50 Interactive multi-media atlases: opportunities and problems
Karen Frederickson, The Polis Center, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

5.50 - 6 The North American Religion Atlas online (demo)
David Bodenhamer, The Polis Center, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

6 - 6.20 The Sonic Landscapes virtual audio reality project
Nigel Helyer, Sonic Objects, Sydney

6.20 - 6.40 The role of the Content Management System in long-term Archival control of Humanities information
Edmund Balnaves, Arts Informatics Program, University of Sydney

WEDNESDAY 13th

Framework data & gazeteers (Wed 9 - 11 : Parallel 1)

9 - 9.20 A framework for the world: the global map GIS dataset
Simon Costello, Richard Broers and Alan Swift,  Australian Surveying and Land Information Group, Canberra

9.20 - 9.40 A picture speaks a thousand words: European approaches to mapping the census through time
Ian Gregory (University of Portsmouth) and Paul Ell (Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis, The Queen's University of Belfast)

9.40 - 10  The ECAI gazetteer research project
Ruth Mostern, Head of Collection Development, ECAI, University of California Berkeley

10 - 10.20 Creating the Tibetan-Himalayan digital library gazetteer
Michael Furlough, Director Geospatial and Statististical Data Centre, University of Virginia Library

10.20 - 10.40 Spatial and temporal characteristics in coding Chinese historical place names
Jianxiong Ge, Director, Centre for Historical Geography, Fudan University

S. Asia Forum (Wed 9 - 11 : Parallel 2)

9 - 9.20 Internationalising South Asian scholarly data: 
John McGuire & Maggie Exon (Curtin University of Technology, Perth) and Denis Wright (University of New England, Armidale)

9.20 - 9.40 Sacredscapes and cosmic geometries: The ECAI approach to the holy places of North India
Rana P.B. Singh, Geography, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

9.40 - 10 Mapping gender in India: From statistical rhetoric to cartographic imagination
Saraswati Raju, Centre for Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

10 - 10.20 Hierarchical spatial relational database management and interactive online millennium atlas of India 
Naresh Kumar , Geography, University of Georgia

10.20 - 10.40 Mapping the power of village elites
Peter Mayer, Politics, University of Adelaide

10.40 - 11 A quantitative study revisited using GIS: social, ideological and political relationships of the bhadralok in Calcutta 1857 - 1885
Maggie Exon & John McGuire , Curtin University of Technology , Perth

Morning break 11.00 - 11.30

Metadata and interoperability (Wed 11.30 - 1 : Parallel 1)

11.30 - 11.50 Interoperability: what does it mean and how do we achieve it in web-based scholarly communications?
Chris Blackall,  Information Literacy Coordinator, Graduate School, Australian National University

11.50 - 12.10 Shall we metadata? building standards for online access to a diverse collection
Damian Robinson, Archaeological Data Service, York

12.10 - 12.30 Molecular online publishing: Using XML to build composite documents from semi-structured data
Steven Hayes, TND Systems, Sydney  

12.30 - 12.50 ePublication of special collections: the Sassanian seals project
Jeanette Zerneke, Director, Information Systems and Services, International and Area Studies, University of California Berkeley

Research Issues 2 (Wed 11.30 - 1 : Parallel 2)

11.30 - 11.50 Who will lead the revolution? Life history & e-scholarship: conception and expression
Marilyn Levine, Lewis-Clark State College, Idaho

11.50 - 12.10 Time and events: Visualisation and the dynamics of culture
Roland Fletcher, Archaeology, University of Sydney

12.10 - 12.30 Using GIS to uncover regional histories: crossing the North - South divide in Vietnam
Brian Zottoli, University of Michigan

12.30 - 12.50 A virtual library of Italian atlases: assessing society through analysis and interpretation of geographical atlases
Vladimiro Valerio, Storia della Architettura, Universita di Venezia

Lunchtime Demos/Posters (Wed 1 - 2)

An archaeological database for Burma/Myanmar
Bob Hudson, Archaeological Computing Laboratory, University of Sydney

Visualisation of Angkor monuments
David Hobson, Archaeological Computing Laboratory, University of Sydney

The city of Poona 1879-1924: A GIS model
Wayne Mullen, Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens, University of Sydney 

Data collection (Wed 2 - 3.30 : Parallel 1)

2 - 2.20 Rare map digitisation at the National Library of Australia
Maura O'Connor, Map Librarian, Australian National Library

2.20 - 2.40 Language Atlas of China spatial data
Lawrence Crissman, Director, Australian Centre for the Asian Spatial Information and Analysis Network, Griffith University.

2.40 - 3 Shinto Project: design and construction  of a full text retrieval system using simple-tagged Nihon-shoki texts (the Imperial Chronicle of Japan)
Ikuo Oketani, Human Sciences, Osaka International University for Women

3 - 3.20 The role of the library in textual encoding
Suzana Sukovic, Rare Books and Special Collections, University of Sydney Library

Research Issues 2 (Wed 2 - 3.30 : Parallel 2)

2 - 2.20 From war zone to world heritage: A UNESCO project to safeguard the Plain of Jars
Paul Box, UNESCO Consultant, Bangkok

2.20 - 2.40 Geovisualisation: achieving true information literacy in the social sciences and humanities
Chris Blackall, Information Literacy Coordinator, Graduate School, Australian National University

2.40 - 3 Creating a multi-media simulation for Southeast Asian History
Adrian Vickers, Geoff Gillan and Li Tana, University of Wollongong.

Afternoon break 3.30 - 4

Visualisation (Wed 4 - 6)

4 - 3.20 Management of knowledge assets in a digital world
Renato Ianella, Chief Scientist, IPR Systems, Sydney

4.20 - 4.40 Virtual reality and virtual heritage
Vic Baker, Associate Director, WV Virtual Environments Lab, West Virginia University

4.40 - 5 Toward Virtual GIS: exploring dynamic and interactive visualizations of historical and cultural landscapes through Internet GIS
Trevor Harris, Geology and Geography, West Virginia University

5 - 5.20 Virtual Olympia 3D museum experiences
Cliff Ogleby, Geomatics, University of Melbourne

Not yet scheduled

Korean Buddha Image
Bong-Seok Gong, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Korea

Digital reconstruction of historical sites
Anjum Mehmood, National College of Arts, UK
<attendance uncertain>

Database of 20th century art of Georgia
George Janberidze, Director, Modern Art Gallery, Georgia  
<attendance uncertain>

The geography of language and identity
Francis Njubi, African Studies, San Diego State University
<attendance uncertain>  

Mapping the landscape of American art history
Mary Webb, AskArt Inc.
<paper presented in absentia>

CONFERENCE DINNER depart 7.30pm from Man O'War Steps near the Opera House.

ECAI Technical & Workgroup Meetings (ECAI members only)
For ECAI membership enquiries, please consult the ECAI website or email Caverlee Cary 

All meetings in Eastern Avenue Conference Centre unless otherwise indicated

Mon 11 June

10am ECAI Editors meeting, ECAI Tech meeting, joint meeting. 

Thu 14 - Sat 16 June: ECAI members work sessions

Links are to draft whitepapers in RTF format (passworded)
AM & PM = Half day, AM1, AM2, PM1, PM2 = Quarter day

Thurs 14th

AM Documentation and training (Jeanette Zerneke & Karen Kemp)
AM Trade routes and exchange systems (Matthew Ciolek)

PM E-Publishing (Catherine Candee)
PM South Asia team (John McGuire)

Fri 15th

AM Metadata interoperability (Ian Johnson)
AM1 Cartographic standards (Kevin Mickey)
AM2 Framework data (Karen Kemp)

PM Historic maps and images (Andrew Wilson)
PM1 Character coding and multilingual issues (Susan Stone)
PM2 Copyright, IP and encryption (Larry Crissman)

Sat 16th

AM Gazetteers (Ruth Mostern)
AM Visualisation (Trevor Harris)

PM Historical GIS (Paul Ell & Ian Gregory)

ECAI Business Meeting 5pm

Network connections & audiovisuals

A number of networked computers, along with space to network your laptop and technical assistance, will be available in the speakers' room during the conference and work sessions. Please advise if you have computer-based or video material which you would like projected during program breaks.