Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI)

 

The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, based at University of California, Berkeley, is a global consortium of people who share the vision of creating a distributed virtual library of cultural information with a time and place interface.

• Building a Global Community
  • People using Time and Space with cultural resources
• Demonstrating Use of a Time and Space Interface
  • To discover, access, visualize, integrate, & analyze digital resources
• Building Cultural Atlases
  • Using Time and Space  as a framework for integration
• Participate in Research and Development Initiatives
  • To advance both scholarhip and technology for cultural atlases
• Documenting our success and challenges
  • Hosting conferences workshops and regional meetings
  • Writing articles and compiling conference presentations
• Creating a Digital Library
  • Distributed geospatial cultural resources contributed by scholars
  • Reference Infrastructure for the next generation digital libraries