Past ECAI Conferences and Workshops

The inaugural "GIS in the Humanities and Social Sciences" 2009 International Conference 10/7/2009-10/9/2009 Location: Academica Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Description: "This significant international Geographical Information Science event aims to bring together an eclectic mix of humanists and social scientists who have used GIS in their work. With a view to the development of GIS as an effective tool and approach for disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, scholars considering using GIS and doctoral students are welcomed as well." See more on this event: http://gis.rchss.sinica.edu.tw/gishs2009/ PNC 2009 Annual Conference and Joint Meetings -- "Social Computing" 10/6/2009-10/8/2009 Location: Academica Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Description: "The session format of the PNC 2009 Annual Conference consists of oral presentation and poster. Participants are encouraged to address the impact of social computing in the sessions that cover diverse domains. The Conference will highlight cutting-edge IT Application in digital archives and e-learning, GIS applications in natural disaster prevention, land use and urban planning. Austronesian Studies will be explored from the perspectives of archaeology, linguistic family and Genetics. In addition, the Conference also offers opportunity to showcase the up-to-date results from biodiversity research in South China Sea." [ pdf ] See more on this event: http://www.pnclink.org/pnc2009/english/index.html "Using the Cultural Atlas for Basic Research" Workshop with Academia Sinica 10/4/2009-10/5/2009 Location: Academica Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Description: ECAI will be hosting the invitational pre-conference workshop on "Using the Cultural Atlases for Basic Research" on October 4-5th. This workshop will host scholars using data from the ECAI Religious Atlas of China and the Himalayas for research. Pondicherry Ecole Francaise Extreme Orient 8/24/2009 Location: Pondicherry, India Description: : ECAI Workshop on Digital Sanskrit Texts and Catalogue. Held jointly with the International Workshop on the Internal and External Chronology of Tamil Bhakti. Space Time And Place 2009 -- III International Conference on Remote Sensing in Archaeology 8/17/2009-8/21/2009 Location: Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India Description: The conference will discuss a wide range of perspectives, approaches and issues on the use of remote sensing and digital technologies in documenting, analyzing and interpreting archaeological and anthropological contexts. See more on this event: http://www.spacetimeplace2009.org/ ECAI Panel at the Association of Asian Studies 3/28/2009 Time: 1:00-2:30pm Location: Mayfair Room, Sheraton Hotel, Chicago, USA Description: Chair: Ruth Mostern, UC Merced. Speakers: Professor Shigeo Sugimoto from University of Tsukuba; Dr. Simon C. Lin from Academia Sinica, Grid Computing; Dr. I-chun Fan of IHP Academia Sinica; Dr. Peng-Sheng Chiu of IHP Academia Sinica; and Professor Karl Ryavec from University of Wisconsin, Stephens Point. See more on this event: http://ecai.org/Activities/2009AAS/aas2009.html ECAI Congress of Cultural Atlases V: Making History Interactive 3/22/2009-3/26/2009 Location: Williamsburg, Virginia, USA Description: For program details please visit ECAI's program page or visit CAA's official website for complete details. See more on this event: http://ecai.org/Activities/2009CAA/caa2009.html International Joint GIS-IDEAS AND PNC/ECAI Conference 2008 12/4/2008-12/6/2008 Location: Ta Quang Buu Library, Hanoi University of Technology (HUT), Hanoi, Vietnam Description: The main theme for this year is "Information Technology for a Sustainable and Creative Humanosphere". The conference will have nearly 100 papers which focus on the issues and know-how needed for long-term digital preservation in the humanities and sciences. See more on this event: http://ecai.org/activities/2008-Hanoi/08hanoi.html EFEO & ECAI Workshop on GIS and databases 11/29/2008-11/30/2008 Location: Siem Reap, EFEO Description: This workshop is initiated by the Directors of EFEO and ECAI. The workshop, which will be held at the EFEO Center of Siem Reap, will be held 29 and November 30, 2008. The objective of this workshop is to gather researchers of the EFEO and their collaborators with the specialists of ECAI, in order to present the works in progress, to confront experiences, to discuss and explore the possibilities and the perspectives for developments and collaborations in the fields of the GIS and databases. See more on this event: http://ecai.org/activities/2008-EFEO-ECAI-Siem_Reap.pdf ECAI Congress of Cultural Atlases IV: Current Developments and Future Strategies 4/21/2008-4/25/2008 Location: Curtin Technical University, Perth, Australia Description: ECAI Cultural Atlas Congress Spring 2008 hosted by Curtin University, Perth, West Australia See more on this event: http://ecai.org/activities/2008_perth/Index.html ECAI / PNC Joint Meetings: Area Studies, Then and Now 10/18/2007-10/20/2007 Location: University of California, Berkeley, USA Description: ECAI celebrates its 10th anniversary and 20th international conference in conjunction with the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium - PNC. The ECAI and PNC 2007 Annual Conference and Joint Meetings will be held at the University of California, Berkeley from October 18 to October 20 (Thursday to Saturday). ECAI will hold meetings on October 17. This Conference is one of the academic activities in celebration of the completion of the C.V. Starr East Asian Library, and as a memorial to the late Dr. Chang-Lin Tien, Berkeley's first Asian Chancellor. The main theme of Fall 2007 conference is "Area Studies, Then and Now." Ms. Pauline Yu, the President of the American Council of Learned Societies, is invited to be the distinguished speaker for the keynote session. Plenary sessions include keynotes from Cliff Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information, and David Rumsey, David Rumsey Map Collection. The session formats consists of oral presentations and poster demonstration covering various domains such as Area Informatics, Biographical Markup, Conceptualization of Space and Time, Cultural Atlases, Digital Collections (Scientific and Cultural), e-Learning, e-Science, Institutional Collaboration and Funding, Spatial and Temporal Visualization in the Humanities. Scholars, technicians, librarians, museum professionals, educators, site managers, and all working with cultural materials and technology will have an interest in this conference. See the PNC conference site for registration, program and related information. See more on this event: http://pnclink.org/pnc2007/english/index.htm ECAI Congress of Cultural Atlases III: Time & Space in Eurasia 5/28/2007-6/1/2007 Location: Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Description: The 3rd Congress of Cultural Atlases: Time & Space in Eurasia will be held at the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, in conjunction with the 7th International Conference of the Historical Sources of Eurasian and North African Civilisations: Computer Approaches. The conference will include workshops on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Virtual Reality (VR) applied to the study of culture and history, Humanities Computing in the 21st Century and sessions on the development of cultural atlases. More Information. See more on this event: http://ecai.org/activities/Moscow2007/moscow_home.html Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA 4/17/2007-4/21/2007 Location: Hilton San Francisco, 333 O'Farrell Street San Francisco, CA 94102 Description: ECAI affiliates will participate in the American Association of Geographers in San Francisco, CA, April 17 - 21, 2007. ECAI sponsored events include: Tuesday, April 17 Session 1355 - Mapping the Past: reconstructing early American settlement patterns Session 1455 - Employing large scale (localized) data for historical GIS analysis Session 1555 - Integrating GIS into online tools for access to historical data Thursday, April 19 Session 3131 - Representing and analysing long-term change with a national historical GIS Friday, April 20 Session 4468 - Spatial Data and GIS: Mediations and Meditations from the Social Sciences and Humanities See more on this event: http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/SF2007/index.cfm 2nd International Conference on Remote Sensing in Archaeology 12/4/2006-12/7/2006 Location: CNR: Piazzale Aldo Moro, 7 - 00185, Roma, Italia Description: The 2nd International Conference on Remote Sensing in Archaeology will be organized in Rome at the National Research Council with particular attention to the study and the conservation of archaeological and ancient landscapes through integrated technologies and virtual reality. Topics to include: remote sensing, archaeology, landscape, environment, ecosystem, image processing, virtual reality, 3D visualization, conservation, geophysics, photogrammetry, open source and Web-GIS. One week before the conference (27th December - 2nd November), a Remote Sensing International School for archaeologists, site managers and environmental experts will be organized in Grosseto, with the collaboration of international keynote speakers and scientists. See more on this event: http://www.space2place.org/index.html ECAI Regional Meeting in conjunction with PNC and PRDLA. 8/16/2006-8/18/2006 Location: Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Description: The Fall 2006 ECAI meetings were held in conjunction with Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC) and Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance (PRDLA) in a joint conference hosted by Seoul National University. The conference web site includes a program with all session papers and presentations. The web site is in English, Korean and Chinese, and can be found at http://library.snu.ac.kr/PRDLA/ Angkor - Landscape, City and Temple 7/18/2006-7/23/2006 Location: University of Sydney, Australia Description: University of Sydney's Archeological Computing Laboratory is holding a six day conference, Angkor - Landscape, City and Temple July 18 - 23, 2006. "The conference will provide an opportunity for the international community of researchers to contribute to a definitive overview of recent and ongoing research on Angkor, to discuss future directions and collaboration, and to participate in specialist workshops and training sessions" See more on this event: http://conferences.arts.usyd.edu.au/index.php?cf=9 ECAI Meetings, Spring 2006 - Cultural Heritage and Cyber infrastructure 4/18/2006-4/19/2006 Location: Fargo, North Dakota, USA Description: The ECAI meetings in Spring 2006 were held in conjunction with the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) conference - Digital Discovery: Exploring New Frontiers in Human Heritage, April 18 - 21, in Fargo, North Dakota. ECAI's theme for the meeting was Cultural Heritage and Cyber infrastructure. The ECAI sessions were held April 18th and 19th while the full CAA conference ran through April 21st. See ECAI Spring 2006 CFP. Registration and other information about the conference can be found on the CAA conference web site, http://www.caa2006.org/. ECAI had a successful conference with CAA in the Spring 2003. We welcome this opportunity to once again meet with this diverse group of scholars. Continue to check the ECAI web site for more information as it becomes available. See more on this event: http://ecai.org/activities/2006Fargo/schedule.html ECAI Meeting in association with PNC 2005 Annual Conference 11/1/2005-11/3/2005 Location: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Description: ECAI held its Fall 2005 meetings in association with the PNC 2005 Annual Conference at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, from November 1 ~ 3. Also in association with this conference will be PRDLA meetings held on October 31. See schedule of ECAI's Session. Included are titles, authors, and abstracts for each of the papers being presented. Also see the CFP. More information about the conference is available from the PNC website at http://pnclink.org/pnc2005/subject03.htm and from the conference site http://libweb.hawaii.edu/pncprdla/. Please send inquiries about the PNC and PRDLA sessions to emma@gate.sinica.edu.tw, and inquiries about ECAI session to kcarl@berkeley.edu. ECAI Shanghai Conference - 2nd Annual Cultural Congress 5/9/2005-5/13/2005 Location: Shanghai, China Description: ECAI held its 2nd Annual Cultural Congress at Fudan University, Shanghai, China, between May 9 - 13th. The conference was hosted by the Historical Geography Department at Fudan University. Conference sessions include: Biographical and Geographical Databases for Chinese History; Urban GIS Projects; Cultural Atlases; Global Gazetteers; National and Transnational Historical GIS; Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries; China History and Visual Documents; TimeMap; Language Maps; Digital Chinese Ancient Books; New Approaches, New Technologies; and a number of associated poster sessions. See more on this event: http://ecai.org/activities/Shanghai2005/conference_home.html PNC/ECAI Meeting: Digital Libraries and Digital Collections in the Global Community 10/19/2004-10/21/2004 Location: Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Description: As has been our tradition, ECAI will collaborate in this year's PNC conference in Taipei. For general information about the PNC conference, see: http://pnclink.org/PNC2004/index.htm ECAI's call for papers can be found at: http://ecai.org/activities/Taipei2004/cfp.html See more on this event: http://ecai.org/activities/Taipei2004/schedule.html Congress of Cultural Atlases: The Human Record 5/7/2004-5/10/2004 Location: University of California, Berkeley Description: A project of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI). The Congress of Cultural Atlases will will feature groups that have built a cultural atlas based on georeferenced mapping with associated data. The Congress program will include a plenary session with David Rumsey as keynote. David Rumsey is an historical map collector and principle of Cartography Associates and the David Rumsey Map Collection. The program will also include presentations by a number of selected cultural atlases, poster sessions, a workshop and training on using GIS technology for building and managing cultural atlases. There will also be an opportunity to do project development through hands-on sessions with GIS and TimeMap experts. This event is co-sponsored by the GIS Center, UC Berkeley. More information about this conference is available at: http://ecai.org/activities/congress2004/congress_home.html 2003 PNC/ECAI Joint Meeting, Bangkok, Thailand 11/6/2003-11/9/2003 Location: Bangkok, Thailand Description: The Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC) Annual Conference and Joint Meetings will take place in Thailand, November 7-9, 2003, at the Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre in Bangkok. The theme for the 2003 conference is Cultural Heritage and Collaboration in the Digital Age. Panel sessions offer presentations on such issues as digital museums, grid technology applied to cultural data, multimedia representations of culture, and many other issues. Working groups bring together those with shared interest in thematic topics to develop projects of mutual interest. Poster sessions and computer demonstrations offer opportunities to showcase new work and interact with creative scholars and technicians exploring the possibilities of technology. ECAI will host three sessions during the conference. See the ECAI Session Schedule for more information. Registration, program, and conference logistics can be found on the PNC web site: http://www.hpcc.nectec.or.th/PNC/. ECAI will host a day of meetings on November 6 at the Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre prior to the start of the PNC Conference. See more information about this day. 14th ECAI Conference, Vienna, Spring 2003 4/7/2003-4/12/2003 Location: Vienna, Austria Description: The 16th ECAI conferenece will be held in conjunction with the Computer Applications in Archaeology Conference in Vienna, April 7 - 12, 2003. See the ECAI event schedule and lodging pages for more information. 2002 ECAI Meeting at the University of Shimane and Osaka City University, Japan 9/15/2002-9/23/2002 Location: Japan Description: Prior to the PNC 2002 Conference and Joint Meetings, ECAI will hold a Special Session at the University of Shimane in Japan on September 15-18. The Special Session will include working sessions, demonstrations, and presentations on ECAI developments. ECAI affiliates and Special Session attendees will then join the PNC 2002 Conference and Joint Meetings hosted by Osaka City University in Japan September 19-22. The joint meetings also welcome the participation of the Electronic Buddhist Text Initiative and the Special Interest Group for "Computers and the Humanities" of the Information Processing Society of Japan. This will be a major public meeting for which invitations will be widely distributed within Japan. The meetings will conclude with an additional session hosted by "Minpaku," the National Museum of Ethnology Osaka, Japan, on September 23. Contact ECAI at: ecai@socrates.berkeley.edu. See more on this event: http://pnclink.org/annual.htm Twelfth ECAI meeting in Seoul, Korea: "Global Networking of Digital Cultural Heritage" 5/21/2002-5/25/2002 Location: Seoul, Korea Description: The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative will hold its next conference in Seoul, Korea, May 22-24, with additional meetings May 21 and May 25, 2002. The theme of the conference will be "Cultural Heritage in a Digital Environment." Conference presentations will explore new technologies applied to diverse cultural resources, including digital museums, archives, and historic sites. Representatives of a range of cultural, governmental, and academic institutions will be brought together to share views on the representation of Korea's rich cultural traditions. Initial planning sessions will be held for the creation of an ECAI electronic cultural atlas of Korea. Work sessions will be held on digital technologies and cultural resources, spatial analysis, visualization, gazetteers, and multilingual issues. See more on this event: http://ecai.org/activities/korea0502/korea0502.html PNC/ECAI Conference 12/1/2001-12/5/2001 Location: Guadalajara, Mexico Description: A Joint PNC/ECAI Interim Meeting in Guadelajara, Mexico, will be an opportunity to present the work of ECAI to the Central and South American participants, and introduce us to the work of this academic community. The PNC focus of this session will be Education, with an emphasis on distance learning. The focus for ECAI will be Digital Archives and Digital Museums. See more on this event: http://ecai.org/activities/ecai-pnc-mexico2001.html Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative Conference : "Towards an Electronic Cultural Atlas: E-Publishing and data interoperability in the Humanities" 6/12/2001-6/16/2001 Location: University of Sydney, Australia Description: This conference begins on the 12th of June and runs the 16th. Please check out website for further information. Abstract deadline is April 15, 2001 and can be sent via email. Acceptance by April 30th. This year's mid-year meeting of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) will include six half-day work sessions and a two-day public conference. Also check the website for more information about conference topical themes. See more on this event: http://ecai.org/Activities/Sydney0601/ECAI_001/index.html 2001 PNC Annual Conference & Joint Meetings 1/15/2001-1/20/2001 Location: City University of Hong Kong Description: At this meeting of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, ECAI affiliates gathered to address issues identified as central to the ECAI effort in extended, intensive Work Sessions. These work sessions, comprised of speakers who will address broad questions and individual project examples, are intended to explore the state of the art and culminate in development strategies for future growth. See more on this event: http://pnclink.org/annual/annual2001/hk2001.htm The Electronic Atlas Cultural Initiative June 2000 Conference 6/23/2000-6/30/2000 Location: The British Library, London Description: ECAI 2000 at The British Library will be an exciting and important forum. There will be a reception on Monday 26 June 2000 to celebrate ECAI's aims and achievements, attended by the UK Government Minister for Arts and Libraries, Alan Howerth. ECAI is an exemplar of international collaboration being used to harness expertise worldwide in order to increase public access to the world's culture and history via the Internet. See more on this event: http://ecai.org/activities/june2000ConfAnn.html 2000 PNC Annual Conference & Joint Meetings 1/11/2000-1/17/2000 Location: Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley See more on this event: http://pnclink.org/annual.htm Sixth ECAI Meeting 6/19/1999-6/21/1999 Location: Ann Arbor Michigan Description: The ECAI meeting took place prior to the International Conference on Geoinformatics and Socioinformatics June 19-21, 1999, U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor. 1999 PNC Annual Conference & Joint Meetings 1/17/1999-1/22/1999 Location: Taipei, Taiwan See more on this event: http://pnclink.org/annual.htm Fourth ECAI Workshop 6/29/1998-6/30/1998 Location: University of Heidelberg Description: Organized by Thomas H. Hahn, Librarian at the Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg See more on this event: http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/sin/institut/ecai.htm Annual Meeting of Pacific Neighborhood Consortium 5/15/1998-5/18/1998 Location: Taipei Taiwan Description: Sponsored by the Computing Center Academia Sinica and Computing Center Ministry of Education, Taiwan. The first international ECAI presentations were held at this meeting. See more on this event: http://pnclink.org/annual.htm Electronic Cultural Atlas Workgroup 2/14/1998 Description: The Berkeley campus and the Center will welcome scholars from around the world for the first meeting of the workgroup established to coordinate the production of cultural atlases. Attending the meeting at Berkeley will be: Ville Talola (U of Helsinki, Finland), Dr. Thomas Hahn (University of Heidel berg-Germany), Cynthia Edenberg (Open University, Tel Aviv, Israel), Prof. H.K. Yoon (University of Auckland-New Zealand), Ven Hyemook (Korea). Delegates from the U.S. include: Maureen Donovan (Ohio State), John Nelson (Univ. of Texas, Austin), Prof. Edward Malatesta (Ricci Institute, University of San Francisco). These delegates are joined by Berkeley faculty and graduate students. A public presentation and report of the work of the group will be held on February 14 at 4:00 p.m. in the Morrison Room of the Doe Library, under the sponsorhip of the Multimedia Workgroup of the Townsend Center. Organizers for the Workgroup include: Lewis Lancaster and Prof. Edward Malatesta. First ECAI Meeting 11/18/1997-11/24/1997 Location: San Francisco, USA Description: During November 18-24, 1997, 2 days of meetings were held at the Ricci Institute, University of San Francisco.