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1. ECAI Meetings and Director's visits
2. Technology
3. Funding
4. Publications

ECAI Meetings and Director's visits

It was good to see some of you at the October 19-21 meeting at Academia Sinica in Taipei. The joint meeting was with the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC) and the Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance (PRDLA). The pre-conference information can be found at http://ecai.org/activities/Taipei2004/schedule.html. Conference presentations will be added to the site as they become available.

In addition to the meeting in Taipei, I will meet with the Korea ECAI team in Seoul and make a series of visits to other institutions in Korea from October 22-28.

The Second Congress of Cultural Atlases is being planned in cooperation with Professor Ge and Fudan University in Shanghai. Some preliminary information about that conference can be found on the ECAI site at: http://ecai.org/activities/Shanghai2005/conference_home.html

My recent visits as Director have included:

• Chinese Culture University (Taipei)
• Academia Sinica (Taipei)
• Hong Kong Baptist University
• University of Hong Kong
• Fudan University
• Nanjing University
• Academy of Social Science, Beijing
• Department of Religious Affairs for the Central Government of China

Technology

On the technology front, the clearinghouse has successfully migrated to UC Berkeley. Some of the clearinghouse maintenance is still being handled by the Sydney team, though eventually that too will be transferred to Berkeley. Development continues in Sydney.

Funding

The US federal Institute of Museum and Library Services has awarded ECAI a National Leadership Grant to extend our efforts to develop improved techniques for searching by time and place. The project, entitled “Supporting the Learner: What, Where, When, Who,” builds directly on an earlier project “Going Places in the Catalog.” The grant is for $240,162 over two years. See http://ecai.org/imls2004/

Publications

We are still working away at publications. It takes time and effort but we are making progress. The new publications are:

“French and Spanish Missions in North America”, by John Corrigan and Tracy Leavelle, with Arthur Remillard
“The Twenty-four Dioceses and the spatio-liturgical organization of early Heavenly Master Taoism”, by Franciscus Verellen
“Begram: New Perspective on the Ivory and Bone Carvings”, by Sanjyot Mehendale

Website for each of these publications will be available as we come closer to the final publication date.