2008 ECAI Conference -- Ha Noi, Vietnam -- December 2-6 Ta Quang Buu Library in Hanoi University of Technology
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Tuesday 2nd December 2008
	MEETINGS: Sanskrit Meeting (project meeting) Time: TBA Location: TBD upon arrival in Hanoi Contact: Lew Lancaster, buddhst@berkeley.edu
Wednesday 3rd December 2008
	MEETINGS: Religious Atlas of China (project meeting) Time: 13:00 - 14:45 Location: Ta Quang Buu Library, 9th Floor, room 903 Contact: Lew Lancaster, buddhst@berkeley.edu ECAI General Meeting ( all invited ) Time: 15:00 - 17:00 Location: Ta Quang Buu Library, 9th Floor, room 903 Contact: Jeanette Zerneke, jlz@berkeley.edu Digital Buddhist Canon Catalog (project meeting) Time: 18:00 - 21:00 Location: Ta Quang Buu Library, 9th Floor, room 903 Contact: Lew Lancaster, buddhst@berkeley.edu
Thursday 4th December 2008
	Session: Creation and Organization of Local Cultural Atlases (16:00-17:30) Ta Quang Buu Library 9th Floor, room 903 Digitalization of Rock Art sites in Tamil Nadu, India Professor Dayalan Archaeological Survey of India Comparative of ECAI Mapping Local Island Cultures[Abstract] David Blundell National Chengchi University, Taiwan Vietnamese Buddhist Digital Atlas Hau Le Cong Vietnam Buddhist University www.MountainSongs.net[Abstract] Gary Flint Mountain Songs New Progress in the BGIS Project at the University of Arizona[Abstract] Jiang Wu University of Arizona
Friday 5th December 2008
	MEETING: ECAI Executive Committee Meeting (committee members) Time: Program lunch break Location: TBD upon arrival in Hanoi Concact: Michael Buckland, buckland@ischool.berkeley.edu Session: Data Management of Buddhist Texts (9:00-10:30) Ta Quang Buu Library 9th Floor, room 903 “BlueDots” View of Traditional Buddhist Text – A Forward Perspective and Practice in the New Digital Age [Abstract] Howie Lan University of California – Berkeley, CA, USA Using TEI markup to extract GIS information from biographies of eminent monks[abstract] Marcus Bingenheimer Dharma Drum Buddhist College A Management System for Sanskrit Buddhist Documents[Abstract] Ralph Moon University of California – Berkeley, CA, USA Comparative Study of the Tripitaka Koreana and Dunhuang Manuscripts & Building a Comparative Image Research System (Based on the Digital Image Research Environment of the TK-IRS)[Abstract] Myungsoo Kim Tripitika Koreana, Korea Session: Dynamic Mapping (11:00-12:30) Ta Quang Buu Library 9th Floor, room 903 Using Cartography to reveal Historical Perspectives[Abstract] Vlad Atanasiu Austrian Academy of Sciences Dynamic Mapping and Historical Context: Medieval Latin Places[Abstract] Jeanette Zerneke University of California – Berkeley, CA, USA Applications of Digital Methods and Dynamic Maps in Southeast Asian History and Archaeology: An Overview[Abstract] Damian Evans University of Sydney, Australia Session: Humanities GIS and Analysis (14:00-15:30) Ta Quang Buu Library 9th Floor, room 903 British Historical GIS Reinterpreted: Beyond Administrative Boundaries and Censuses - Cancelled Paul Ell Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland Historical GIS and the development of the European state system since 1815 [Abstract] Andreas Kunz Institute of European History, Mainz, Germany Apply Google Map and Map Titles Processing Technology to Building the Online Culture Map System[Abstract] Fan I-chun Academia Sinica, Taiwan Digitizing the Asami Collection and Korean Rare Books at the University of California, Berkeley[Abstract] Peter Zhou East Asian Library, University of California - Berkeley, USA Session: GIS Exploration in the History of Japan: Humanities GIS (16:00-17:30) Ta Quang Buu Library 9th Floor, room 903 Characteristics of the Siting and Environment of the Urban Areas of Heijiokyo (AD710-784) in the Northern Nara Basin [Abstract] Tatsunori Kawasumi Department of Geography, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan An Historical GIS for Analyzing Migration through Marriage in 17th-19th Century Japan [Abstract] Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Faculty of Business Administration, Tezukayama University, Nara, Japan Tsunekazu Kato, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka Electro-Communication University, Osaka, Japan Japan Sinks: Floods, Drainage, and the Impact of Modern Civil Engineering in the Echigo Plain[Abstract] Philip Brown Department of History, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Saturday 6th December 2008
	Session: Urban Development in Social and Historical Context (9:00-10:30) Ta Quang Buu Library 9th Floor, room 903 The Influence of the city in the destiny of the surrounding agrarian communities: case of Tlajomulco in Mexico 1821-2008 [Abstract] Edith Jimenez, Maria de la Luz, Ayala and Heriberto Cruz Universidad de Guadalajara The role of the Indian villages in Mexico in the supply of goods to the city Guadalajara and its Indian belt 16th – 19th centuries[Abstract] Edith Jimenez, Maria de la Luz, Ayala and Heriberto Cruz Universidad de Guadalajara Creating Genius Loci in Hyperspace [Abstract] Felicity Morel Department of Premier and Cabinet, Western Australia Towards Compresensive Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon [Abstract] Min Bahadur Shaktya Institute of Exact Methods Session: Context Composition for Cultural Data (11:00-12:30) Ta Quang Buu Library 9th Floor, room 903 Area Informatics and Spatiotemporal Application [Abstract] Shoichiro Hara Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan Laptops and Libraries: Decentralized Access to Explanatory Resources [Abstract] Michael Buckland University of California – Berkeley, CA, USA The Experience of Building Time, Person, and Place Authority Databases for Chinese Buddhist Canons [Abstract] Joey Hung Dharma Drum Buddhist College, Taiwan Session: Cultural Atlases: Monuments and Texts (14:00-15:30) Ta Quang Buu Library 9th Floor, room 903 Computer-assisted tools for the creation of electronic atlases of cultural heritage monuments  [Abstract] Stanislav Shchigorets GREC Research Group, St. Petersburg, Russia Using GIS and culture records in the development of Taiwan Buddhism Database [Abstract] Aming Tu Dharma Drum Buddhist College Main Problems of Placing in the Web the Annotated Database of Early Mediaeval North Indian Copper-Plate Grants[Abstract] Alexander A. Stolyarov Russian Academy of Sciences Results and Prospects of Creation of Mongolian Manuscripts and Xylographs Database [Abstract] Tsymzhit Vanchikova Institute of Mongolian