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Congress of Cultural Atlases:
The Human Record
May 7-10, 2004
University of California, Berkeley
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Registration closed May 6, 2004
Poster Session
Saturday, May 8
| Hainan Cultural Atlas Six months of ethnographic research and visual anthropology on betel nut culture in Hainan and Taiwan islands using GPS, digital photography, video, and audio recordings has yielded a wealth of data. The authors, photographer Winnie Huang and visual anthropologist Christian Anderson, are in process integrating content for multimedia presentation in electronic form as a visual ethnography of betel nut culture in the islands of Taiwan and Hainan. The poster display shows the integration process with available technology, and strives to express some of the ethnographic realities of contemporary daily life on the islands.
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| British Genealogical Jurisdictions Steven Blodgett Arc View based project which overlays Ordnance Survey maps with
parish, census, civil, and probate jurisdictions. The purpose is
to identify record creating entities, information on the records
they created and eventually links to catalog, websites, and contact
information.
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| Electronic Austronesian Language David Blundell Organized in 1997 as a project of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI), this linguistic mapping developed at UC Berkeley and Academia Sinica is to invite participation from scholars interested in temporal spatial research tools for their own research. This electronic atlas is based on The Language Atlas of the Pacific. Maps illustrate the languages and cultures in time from the ancient to the present in a continuous process system of data. Each cultural element is coded based on GIS, and specific linguistic areas are color-coded. This is user friendly based as a resulting product for research, education, and continuing understanding of the Southeast Asia, Pacific and Indian oceans. The first atlas module is the Taiwan area. As an atlas electronically tracing the Austronesian-speaking peoples voyaging and their settlements across the oceans, this is an asset for understanding the Pacific as a highway of population and cultures. It is a colorful walk through the layers of living ethnography into the reaches of prehistory, with cultural phases coming, staying and waning according to the evidence from specialized observation and record of data collection. Scholars and the public could access the ¡§electronic cultural atlas¡¨ on the Web, and go through the centuries of time, or in a specific time, find Austronesian cultural ideas to share, with your own ideas. |
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| Multiple realities: video projection in the tomb of Ramssess II Kevin Cain Survey of an unusual project that overlays a mediated reality on the actual walls of a uniquely important Egyptian tomb. Combining video projection, computer animation, and digital compositing, a kind of ‘plural space’ is generated in the tomb’s burial chamber. More than a technical trick, the approach of video projecting reconstructions onto the walls mirrors the ritual animation of the tomb’s inscriptions during the ‘opening of the mouth’ ceremony. This use of video projection lies somewhere between art installation, traditional archaeology, and the use of computers as theater. A primary goal is to Also to be discussed are prior projects in Peru, Spain, and Italy.
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Untangling spatial elements affecting Irish Famine mortality Paul Ell The Great Irish Potato Famine in the mid-1840s had a profound impact on the development of Ireland which lasted well beyond the years of harvest failure. While in almost every other European state population increased during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in Ireland population fell or stagnated. Beyond the initial high mortality during the Famine, and changes in fertility levels, much of the island’s failure to add population was due to migration to the New World. Arguably Irish immigration into the US, Canada, Australia and so on has had a profound affect on the social, political and economic development of these counties. The Famine’s importance stretches well beyond a corner of north-western Europe. Until recently, despite being examined in detail using both qualitative and quantitative sources, and an implicit ‘Famine Geography’ being perceived, the historiography simply fails to map the disaster. This work has now been done by a multi-disciplinary team in Belfast. The next step, beyond painting a picture of the calamity, is to seek to understand its spatial dynamics. To this end Geographically Weighted Regression has been used to look at regional patterns of causation. The poster represents this work. |
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Report on Digital Tripitaka Koreana In-Sub Hur The first edition of Digital Tripitaka Koreana was released on Dec. 2000. We called it TK 2000. TK 2004(beta version) is a new upgraded one of TK2001. The most noticeable change of TK 2004 is to realize a variant Chinese character edition of Koryo Tripitaka by utilizing the Uni-code. TK 2004 also provides a complete comparison data between the Koryo and the Taisho Tripitaka. This achievements shows the possibility to realize a unified digital tripitaka including Pali, Sanskrit and Tibetan Buddhist sutras.
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Understanding Russian architecture through geography - the William C. Brumfield Russian Architecture Collection Eileen Llona The William C. Brumfield Russian Architecture collection represents
the rich history of architecture in the Russian Federation through
thousands of beautiful photographs, taken over many years by one
of the world's leading experts in Russian architecture. As part
of the development of resources for the Central Eurasian Information
Resource (CEIR), we have utilized GIS to develop a unique search
interface for this photographic collection. Since geography, or
place, is an important knowledge attribute of architecture history,
the distribution of search results displayed on a map may lend more
knowledge to a user rather than a simple text display of search
results. Metadata design for the collection includes time attributes,
as well as place. Identifying the unique location of individual
buildings or complexes allows their spatial distribution to be visualized
in response to queries on date of construction, material, or architectural
element. In addition, since the collection contains several Russian
building and place names, several metadata elements have both English
and Russian contents. The design of the interface allows for searching
in both Russian and English. Digital images can be directly correlated
with their underlying geography, allowing the user improved visualization
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Historic Guidebooks Online David Michalski Historic Guidebooks Online is a project of the Digital Intiatives Program at the University Library at UC Davis. We are looking for ways to integrate GIS technology into the our databases of historic guidebooks. We will provide handouts of our ongoing projects and discuss the opportunities and challenges integrating GIS in the study of urban history.
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Some remarks on designing a Danish culture atlas prototype for the web: how to harvest the public knowledge resources of everyday cultural history and feedback it into the national archives Dag Petersson The GIS based culture atlas we are currently developing in Denmark aims to tell the history of everyday life during the twentieth century in images, film clips music and recorded voice. The GIS application works together with a time line as search engine. Specifying the geographical and historical area of interest, together with a free text search and or a specification of theme, the user sets the parameters for what image-, film- or sound-files will be retrieved from a large database. The database contains materials collected from the two main image archives in Denmark, in collaboration with archives of local history and archives at the Universities.
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Aquae Urbis Romae Katherine Rinne A cultural atlas of 3000 years of the water history of Rome.
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A New Environment for the Buddhist Digital Text Aming Tu The challenge of digitising the Buddhist canonical scriptures has to be seen in the larger context of the communication revolution we are experiencing. As our understanding of what a "text" is slowly changing with the advent of digital text, it is obvious. For the time being CBETA has developed a new environment for this Buddhist Digital Texts, known as CBReard which will be introduced at the Poster Session. |
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Imperial German Electoral Atlas George Vascik The Imperial German Elections Atlas is a multi-year team project that collects and displays data on German elections from 1867 to 1918. It provides, via the Internet, sets of published and unpublished social and political data collected by traditional historical research methods and allows the user to subject his data to statistical, spatial and temporal analysis. As such, it will serve as both a research tool and an informational platform.
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Native California Exchange Dawn Youngblood The poster shows the interrelationships between native California exchange and environmental factors. |
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