Director's Report

January 2005

Content includes:
  1. ECAI Meeting
  2. Funding
  3. Events

ECAI Meeting
Coordination of the May 2005 ECAI meeting at Fudan University, Shanghai, is gaining momentum. ECAI invites proposals of papers, poster/demonstrations, and sessions on the following topics:

  • TimeMap Applied in Teaching and Research
  • Gazetteer Development
  • Uncertainty in Data Sources and Visualization
  • The Development of Historical GIS for China
  • Digital Libraries in China and East Asia
  • Digital Cultural Maps in China and East Asia
  • Digital Ancient Maps in China and East Asia
  • Virtual Reality for Cultural Atlases
  • Cultural Atlas Development and Showcase

The deadline for submission of papers, full panel proposals, or poster/demo
abstracts is 28 February 2005. The program committee will send notifications
of acceptance by mid-March.

With the generous support of Fudan University, registration is free of charge and includes complimentary meals. The option of subsidized accommodation is available if registered by April 20. Registration for the conference is available online from
http://www.ecai.org/Activities/shanghai2005/conference_home.html

As you make your travel plans, be sure to check your consulate’s requirements for obtaining a VISA to China.

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Funding
As mentioned in my last report, ECAI had been awarded a second National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The project is designed to develop tools to enable librarians, museum staff, secondary school teachers, and others to search for additional resources to supplement textbooks and to search for resources to provide context and comparisons for museum objects. Improved indexing and search techniques will be developed to facilitate searching by places, persons, and time periods associated with topics and objects of interest. The project website is at http://ecai.org/imls2004. This two-year project builds on an earlier project “Going Places in the Catalog” for which a final report has been submitted and is available from the project website:
http://ecai.org/imls2002.

 

Events
ECAI Southeast Asia held a meeting January 25 in Bangkok to discuss plans for a conference on Southeast Asian trade routes. For more information, contact Caverlee Cary at cari@berkeley.edu

ECAI Southeast Asia affiliates will present a panel, “Assessing Ayutthaya” at the next Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, March 31 – April 3, Chicago, Illinois.

ECAI affiliates have organized two sessions at the Association of American Geographers conference, April 5 – 9, Denver, CO. Two sessions: Data and design issues in historical GIS IV: visions and collaborations, and Data and design issues in historical GIS II: the place-based information interface, will feature presentations by ECAI affiliates. Both sessions will be held on Saturday, April 9.

ECAI affiliates will present at the 21st International Conference on the History of Cartography, July 16, Budapest, Hungary.

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