ECAI Events

ECAI's major events of the calendar are its conferences. In addition, affiliates, individually or collectively, sponsor their own local and regional events. ECAI Central sponsors lectures, demonstrations, meetings, and receptions on the University of California campus.

Upcoming Activities

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

ECAI Congress of Cultural Atlases V
3/22/2009-3/26/2009
Location: Williamsburg, Virginia, USA

Past Activities

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

Cataloging the Chinese Buddhist Canon
7/27/2008-7/28/2008
Location: Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea

The Fifth United Nations Day of Vesak Celebration 2008
5/13/2008-5/17/2008
Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
Description: ECAI holds multiple workshop in conjunction with the UN Day of Vesak and the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha.
See more on this event: http://ecai.org/activities/2008_vesak/Vesak_Index.html

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

Buddhism in the Age of Technology
4/10/2008
Location: University of San Diego
Description: Lewis Lancaster presents at The Burke Lectures.

Association for Asian Studies
4/3/2008-4/6/2008
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Description: ECAI will hold a panel discussion at the 2008 meeting.

Digital Data in the Humanities
3/18/2008
Location: Taipei, Taiwan
Description: Lewis Lancaster presents this paper at the National Digital Archive Program Conference.

Place and Time Mapping for Information in Religious Studies - Workshop
2/19/2008
Location: Fagu University, Taiwan
Description: Howie Lan, UC Berkeley, instructs participants in this one day workshop featured as part of the EBTI after 15 and CBETA at 10 Years: Joint International Conference on Digital Buddhist Studies, February 15-17 with post-conference workshop Feburary 19-20, 2008, Taipei, Taiwan.
See more on this event: http://www.ddbc.edu.tw/eng/conferences/program.html

Cyber-archaeology: Reconstruction & Communication of the Ancient World
2/13/2008
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, UC Berkeley
Description: Maurizio Forte, Professor, Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities, UC Merced.
The ontology of archaeological information, or the cybernetics of archaeology, refers to all the interconnective relationships which the datum produces, the code of transmission, and its transmittability. Because it depends on interrelationships, by its very nature information cannot be neutral with respect to how it is processed and perceived. It follows that the process of knowledge and communication have to be unified and represented by a single vector.
See more on this event: http://www.citris-uc.org/RE-Feb13

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

Cultural Heritage Technology: Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI ) Workshop
8/20/2007-8/23/2007
Location: Vietnam Buddhist University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Description: A two-day workshop to help researchers who are starting to adopt software and digital technology for cultural heritage information and websites. Participants will learn about the use of time and place for indexing, archiving, and retrieving data. Sessions will cover introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS), TimeMap, Google Earth, and the study of the trategies used by existing ECAI affiliated projects. The workshop will be open to a maximum of 35 individuals. As part of the training, each participant will be able to produce an example of the format they wish to use in any proposed project.

Announcing the newly established Cultural Heritage Colloquium of Vietnam Buddhist University. The Colloquium will be a forum to discuss the place of Vietnam within the framework of East Asian patterns as well as its geographic position within the Southeast Asian sphere. The special emphasis of the series is Buddhist cultural heritage. This first Colloquium will be preceded by the jointly sponsored ECAI, University of California Berkeley Cultural Heritage Technology Training Workshop.

Contact the Cultural Heritage Colloquium Organizing Committee:
Venerable Dr. Thich Tam Duc
Venerable Dr. Thich Nhat Tu
Prof. Dr. Le Manh That
dhpgvn@vbu.edu.vn
Fax: 84-8 844 3416
http://www.vbu.edu.vn

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

The Codex Sinaiticus: Still Much to Learn from the Codex Sinaiticus
3/1/2007
Time: 5:30-7:00PM
Location: Morrison Library
Description: Original pages and fragments of the Codex Sinaiticus now reside with four different institutions: the British Library, the Library of the University of Leipzig, the State Library of Russia at St Petersburg, and Saint Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai. In March of 2005, a partnership agreement was signed between these four institutions, who will work together to conserve and photograph all surviving pages and fragments. Scholars will then proceed to make a completely new transcription of the text. From these resources, there are plans to make a quality facsimile (the first to contain all existing pages and fragments), as well as a DVD and a web site. Father Justin, librarian of Saint Catherine’s Monastery, will speak about the history and significance of the Codex Sinaiticus, and give details about this current project.
Father Justin,Librarian, St.Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai
Sponsored by: Morrison Library

The Discovery of Buddhism on the Silk Road
Dr. Susan Whitfield, Director, International Dunhuang Project, British Library
2/1/2007
Time: 4:00PM-5:30PM
Location: IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor, UC Berkeley
Description: The Eastern Silk Road's Buddhist ruins and relics are now well-known. Yet in the late nineteenth century they were still hidden by the desert sands. It was the curiosity of scholars such as Stein which led to their discovery and the start of scholarship in this area. Just as Buddhism travelled from India through Central Asia, so the rediscovery of its sacred sites made the same journey. This lecture will tell the story of the scholars and their finds and consider how far - or how little - we have travelled in our own journey of understanding Buddhism in this region.
Contact: Kimberly Carl, kcarl@berkeley.edu

Sponsor: Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
Co-sponsors: Berkeley China Initiative, Caucasus and Central Asia Program, Center for Buddhist Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, East Asian Library, and Institute for East Asian Studies

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

1st International Summer School in Landscape Archaeology and Computer Applications: from the Field to Virtual Reality ~ cancelled
7/10/2006-7/29/2006
Location: Rome, Italy
Description: This 19 day course is designed to develop advanced skills in a multidisciplinary activity - archaeological and technological. The key goal is to teach participants how to manage archaeological spatial data through a unique process - from the field recording to a virtual reality system. In order to obtain these results, training sessions will be organized on remarkable archaeological case studies dating back to Roman time: the ancient Via Flaminia, and the ancient Via Appia (one of the most important roads of the Roman Empire). Field activities and lab sessions will be organized to give students the possibility of data recording, firstly, and then of data processing, using 3D advanced technologies. The capability to use advanced digital technologies in the same time and on the field guarantees a very didactic experience for the students and enables them to directly process the data collected, to see the results in a real time system of simulation.

Special seminars will be scheduled with Italian keynote speakers on the topics of the course, as well as training activities of pottery classification and restorations. The latter in collaboration with the Italian Archaeological Superintendency and local museums.

See more on this event: http://ecai.org/activities/rome2006workshop/Rome_program_summer_school-public.doc

Remote Sensing and Archaeology in Southeast Asia
6/25/2006-6/26/2006
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Description: A workshop in Remote Sensing and Archaeology will take place in Bangkok this June 25-26. Prior to the workshop, on June 24, a public presentation on the topic will take place, featuring faculty from UC Berkeley, the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and other institutions. This presentation will take place jointly with sessions on Historical GIS, E-Culture, and a joint Thailand-Cambodia archaeological and ethnological project entitled "The Living Angkor Road." For further information, please email ccary@berkeley.edu.

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

The Terrain of History: The Social and Cultural Geography of Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro
4/10/2006
Time: 4:00-6:00PM
Location: Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University
Description: Michael Buckland will be presenting on behalf of ECAI. The workshop evolves from a project of the same name, a description of which begins with: "The proposed project seeks to combine past efforts and enable future collaboration among three urban history/geography research groups. All three projects focus on detailed reconstructions of urban spaces and histories in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during the nineteenth century. When combined and, to the extent possible, harmonized along a common geospatial rubric, these three research projects will provide the most detailed and complete geohistorical archive ever assembled for a city in South America. Additional research projects involving geography and historical analysis in other parts of Brazil will be associated with the workshop via the Humanities Network."
See more on this event: http://shc.stanford.edu/workshops/rio.htm

Problems in the Mapping of History
4/5/2006
Time: 4:00PM
Location: 575 McCone Hall
Description: Geography Department Lecture Series presents Robert Cribb, Australian National University, author of The Historical Atlas of Indonesia
Refreshments will be served.
Sponsored by: Geography Department



The Virtual Shanghai Project
2/28/2006
Time: 4:00PM
Location: IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
Description:
Christian Henriot, Professor, History, Lumière-Lyon 2 University
Wen-hsin Yeh, Professor, History, UC Berkeley
Virtual Shanghai is a research and resource platform on the history of Shanghai from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The objective of the project is to write a history of the city through the combined mobilization of textual records, photographs and GIS-based maps. On the research side, the platform will offer various ways to step into the history of the city and follow its course at different levels over time. On the resource side, apart from providing original textual and visual documents, it develops a powerful cartographic tool for both analysis and creation of maps.
See more on this event: http://ieas.berkeley.edu/events/2006.02.28.html
Sponsored by: Institute of East Asian Studies

A Survey of GIS Applications for the Social Sciences and Humanities
2/17/2006
Time: 9:00AM-4:00PM
Location: GIS Center, UC Berkeley
Description: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is an increasingly ubiquitous technology in research, education, and our daily lives. Scholars are discovering the usefulness of GIS data in non-traditional fields such as the humanities and social sciences. This course serves as both an introduction to GIS and to its application within an academic environment.
For futher information on course content, fee, or to register for the workshop, please email: Caverlee Cary, ccary@berkeley.edu
See more on this event: http://ecai.org/activities/resources/GIS-HumWkshop011506.doc

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and History: Aggregating Data, Connecting Places, and Analyzing Processes
1/5/2006
Time: 3:00-5:00PM
Location: AHA, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Description: This roundtable discussion will be a joint session with the American Association for History and Computing at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Philadelphia, January 5 - 8, 2006 in Philadelphia. The panel leading the discussion consists of Zephyr Frank (Stanford University), Anne Kelly Knowles (Middlebury College), John H. Long (The Newberry Library), Ruth Mostern (University of California at Merced), and J. B. "Jack" Owens (Idaho State University).

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.

Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities
9/28/2005-9/30/2005
Location: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Description: ECAI will participate in the Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities, University of Virginia, September 28-30, 2005.

The evolving vision of a digitally enabled humanities community creates new challenges and opportunities for the tool-building and tool-using communities. As these communities become more active and interactive, there is a need for a Summit that can assess the state of development of digital tools for humanities research, as well as the effectiveness of the supporting and integrating cyberinfrastructure. The Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities will bring together scholars from diverse disciplines of the humanities, such as history, literature, archeology, linguistics, classics, and philosophy, and some social scientists and computer scientists.
See more on this event: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/dtsummit/

21st International Conference on the History of Cartography
7/16/2005
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Description: ECAI affiliates will present at this conference.
See more on this event: http://lazarus.elte.hu/~zoltorok/ichc/index.htm

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

ECAI Sessions at Association of American Geographers
4/5/2005-4/9/2005
Location: Denver, Colorado, USA
Description: ECAI affiliates presented a number of papers at 5 sessions during the 2005 Meeting of The AAG, April 5-9 2005, Denver CO. To see a list of ECAI sessions, http://ecai.org/activities/AAG-April2005.html.
See more on this event: http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/index.cfm

ECAI Southeast Asia at the Association for Asian Studies
3/31/2005-4/3/2005
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Description: ECAI Southeast Asia affiliates will present a panel, "Assessing Ayutthaya," at the next Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting. The panel is offered in conjunction with an upcoming "Kingdom of Siam" exhibition at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. All interested AAS attendees are welcome.

ECAI Southeast Asia
1/25/2005
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Description: ECAI Southeast Asia members and friends will meet in Bangkok, Thailand, to discuss plans for a conference on Southeast Asian trade routes. The meeting will review current projects on related to this subject, draft a working agenda, and draft a list of invitees. Anyone interested in attending should email cari@berkeley.edu.

Social Science History Association
11/18/2004-11/21/2004
Location: Palmer House, Chicago
Description: The SSHA is the leading interdisciplinary association for historical research in the US; its members share a common concern for interdisciplinary approaches to historical problems. The organization's long-standing interest in methodology also makes the SSHA meetings exciting places to explore new solutions to historical problems. The Historical Geography Network is a rapidly growing organizing group within the SSHA. Network members' interests include the relation of geography to historiographic issues, the role of maps, mapping and GIS in social science history, and social, economic, and cultural geography. The Historical Geography network, co-chaired by ECAI affiliate Ruth Mostern, will host 14 sessions at this year's conference.
See more on this event: http://www.ssha.org/

Ancient Sites, Modern Maps: Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in Archaeology: A Workshop for Practicing Archaeologists Exploring New Technologies
10/29/2004-10/30/2004
Location: 305 Wurster Hall
Description: The Geographic Information Science Center and the Archaeological Research Facility of the University of California, Berkeley, are planning a workshop bringing together archaeologists and remote sensing specialists from the UC Berkeley campus and elsewhere to exchange ideas, methods, problems, and possible solutions. This workshop may be of interest to specialists in remote sensing and GIS technology, as well as those engaged in the study of a range of disciplines, including archaeology, anthropology, history of art, geography, cultural heritage preservation.

October 29, 1 – 5 p.m.: Presentations
305 Wurster Hall
Free and open to the public

October 30, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.: Working group
Pre-registration required; space limited.
Pre-registration deadline: October 22, 2004

Please direct inquiries to: cari@berkeley.edu.
See more on this event: http://www.gisc.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/newspro/viewnews.cgi?newsid1096308688,38731,

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

ICANAS 37 - The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative panel: Scholars at the Nexus of Geography and History
8/19/2004
Location: Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Description: Information technology is changing the academic landscape. Scholars are rethinking the effects and the opportunities of these changes. Explorations in space and time represented in a digital environment is promoted by the affiliates of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are software tools of power and promise for scholars. GIS link spatial information to information of any kind that can be represented in a digital environment. While not yet widely used by humanities scholars, GIS has great potential for data organization, collaboration, and scholarly analysis. Remote sensing is expanding our understanding of the landscape, and even beyond, to the hidden relics of past civilizations now buried beneath the earth’s surface. Databases permit us to organize vast amounts of data useful to scholars. Virtual reality techniques are making it possible to capture in extraordinary detail objects, monuments, places, and enable access and study at a level not before possible. This panel presents an overview of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) and shares examples of scholars exploring new technologies in the study of history and culture. The ECAI session, organized by Caverlee Cary, will meet jointly with the New Technologies panel, which includes presentations on digital projects by Russian and Latin American scholars, and presentations on communication networks in Southeast Asia. Please contact cari@berkeley.edu for further information.
See more on this event: http://ecai.org/activities/icanas2004/panel_overview.html

GIS for the Humanities Workshop - Sydney, Australia
7/12/2004-7/16/2004
Location: Academic Computing Lab, University of Sydney, Australia
Description: The Archaeological Computing Laboratory at the University of Sydney, Australia, holds annual workshops which introduce archaeologists, historians, natural scientists and others to a wide range of GIS techniques for historical, site and landscape mapping, along with practical analysis and data presentation. We aim to get participants up to speed on the effective use of GIS, Desktop Mapping and GPS for a broad range of applications. We particularly target applications which are not well covered by standard GIS courses, such as the use of historic maps, archaeological data, database management, practical field recording methods and the delivery of maps on the web.

The workshops are suitable for students, researchers and managers who can benefit from handling spatial data but do not require high-end GIS - those you might call 'soft GIS users'. The workshops will help with the mapping of many types of observations - not only historical and cultural data, but also species sightings or population data - without a heavy investment in the highly technical skills of full-blown GIS.

We aim to provide participants with new skills and an up-to-date overview of the equipment, applications and approaches available to maximise on the spatial component of their data. We use the latest version of ESRI's ArcGIS the TimeMap software developed by the ACL for web-based mapping.

Full details and application forms are available at: http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/acl/activities_and_expertise/teaching/workshops.html

2nd International Institute for GIS in the Arts and Humanities: A four day summer workshop
7/6/2004-7/9/2004
Location: The Polis Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana
Description: The Polis Center at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, in association with the University of Portsmouth, is running a four-day summer workshop in the use of GIS in the arts and humanities. This institute builds on the success of the 1st International Institute for GIS in the Arts and Humanities held at the University of Portsmouth in September of 2003. The summer workshop will provide practical, hands-on experience in the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) software focusing on data and techniques relevant to historians, historical geographers, demographers, archaeologists and others with an interest in the past. The instructors are all academics with significant experience in using GIS to conduct historical research. The majority of the course will focus on practical work in an IT lab with state-of-the-arts GIS facilities. Its key aims are:
+ To establish why the use of GIS is important to the arts and humanities.
+ To provide sufficient hands on experience of using established GIS software packages to allow them to conduct research using GIS.
+To explore the strengths and limitations of using GIS in the context of the arts and humanities where the scientific approaches common in GIS may not be appropriate.
+To provide practical help and advice to people with an interest in conducting specific projects that will use GIS.
+To demonstrate the infrastructure that is available to support GIS-based research projects in the arts and humanities.

Please contact Kevin Mickey at (317) 274-2455, Email: kmickey@iupui.edu or Ian Gregory at (023) 9284 2492, Email: ian.gregory@port.ac.uk

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

ECAI Panel - Computer Applications to Archaeology
4/16/2004
Location: Prado, Italy
Description: ECAI delegates present at the 2004 Computer Applications to Archaeology.
See more on this event: http://ecai.org/Activities/CAA_April2004.html

Free course: Using GIS to analyse historical data
4/1/2004-4/2/2004
Location: Portsmouth, Hampshire UK
Description: The Department of Geography of the University of Portsmouth, in association with AHDS History, is running a two-day course on the use of Geographical Information Systems to analyse historical data. The course is sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council's Research Methods Programme and is free to participants. This course builds on the success of our summer school on using GIS in the arts and humanities and two one-day GIS workshops hosted by the AHDS http://ahds.ac.uk/gis_workshop.htm
Informal inquiries: Ian Gregory on (023) 9284 2492, Email: ian.gregory@port.ac.uk
Registration: Places are limited, so book early. You can do this by downloading an application form from http:ahds.ac.uk/history/news/index.html and sending it to Christine Tonkin, Continuing Professional Development, University of Portsmouth, Boathouse No. 6, College Rd., HM Naval Base, Portsmouth, PO1 3LJ. Tel: (023) 9284 5402, Fax: (023) 9282 0024, Email: chris.tonkin@port.ac.uk.

Devotional Landscapes: Mapping the Shrines and Saints of New Spain:A Symposium and Workshop on GIS for History
2/27/2004-2/28/2004
Location: Townsend Center for Humanities
Description: Religion as a nexus of political, economic, social and cultural life in the area once known as New Spain (now Mexico and the Hispanic Southwest) has been the subject of extensive scholarship. The landscape, already rich with the religious associations of the indigenous population, became freshly inscribed in ways ever more complex with the arrival of Catholicism. The interactions of the sacred and the spatial are being explored through the computerized mapping of Devotional Landscapes, a collaborative project between the Colegio de Mexico and UC Berkeley, that seeks to integrate historical geography and religious history in a region now severed by the US-Mexico border.
For registration information, contact Caverlee Cary, cari@uclink.berkeley.edu. URL: www.gisc.berkeley.edu (click on "Devotional Landscapes" at right)
Sponsored by: GIS Center, ECAI, The UC Mexus Program, The Townsend Center for the Humanities


American Historical Association
1/8/2004-1/11/2004
Location: Washington, DC
Description: Presentations to be made by ECAI affiliates. For more information, see http://www.theaha.org/annual/.

International Association of Historical Geographers
12/9/2003-12/13/2003
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Description: Presentation to be made by ECAI affiliates.
See more on this event: http://www.geog.auckland.ac.nz/ichg2003/

Social Science History Association
11/13/2003-11/16/2003
Location: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Description: The Social Science History Association will hold its 28th Annual Meeting, November 13-16, 2003, at the Wyndham-Baltimore Inner Harbor Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. ECAI affiliates will be participating in many of the Historical Geography Network sessions at this year's conference. See:http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/ssha03/ for the Historical Geography Network CFP.

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.

The Reconstruction of Archaeological Landscapes Through Digital Technologies
11/3/2003-11/5/2003
Location: Rome, Italy
Description: The proposed workshop is the second of what is planned to be an ongoing program of sharing information between scientists and scholars in Italy and in the US. In following the direction outlined in the first workshop (Boston, 2001), the second will involve reports and projects dealing with the use of new technologies to advance cultural understanding. The main goal of the workshop is the reconstruction of the archaeological landscape, with special reference to the application of GIS, Spatial Analysis, Remote Sensing, Virtual Reality and use of time enabled software . View the Workshop Program Get more information about the workshop.

Data Mapping Clinic
6/18/2003
Location: 212 Wurster Hall
Description: Session 1: 9 am 12 pm
Session 2: 1-4 pm
The central elements in the information technology architecture of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative are the Metadata Clearinghouse and the TimeMap™ time-enabled GIS software. This "data clinic" is intended to help those with cultural data better understand how the use of these tools will enable mapping of their data, and will show the potential for integrating their projects with other data.
Damian Evans, of the Archaeological Computing Laboratory, will oversee the one-day Data Clinic. The clinic will begin with a brief overview of the Metadata Clearinghouse, the process of registering metadata, and using TimeMap™. Following this, assistance with registering and mapping your data will be available on an individual and group basis.
Participants must register in advance by emailing ecai@socrates.berkeley.edu.
This Data Clinic is made possible at no cost to participants through the generous support of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, the Pacific Rim Program, the Geographic Information Science Center, and the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium.

Scale, Structure and the Demise of the 'Hydraulic City' at Angkor
6/18/2003
Time: 5:00PM
Location: Library Instruction Room, 305 Wurster Hall
Description: The decline of the early historic settlement of Angkor, in Cambodia, represents one of the great demographic collapses in the history of urbanism. In the 12th and 13th century CE, the settlement sprawled over an area of over 1000 km2 and may have carried a population approaching 750,000. Without a doubt, Angkor's defining archaeological feature is not its collection of temples: it is the sheer scale of its water management system. A vast water management system connected the monumental religious complex in the centre of the Angkor plain to the Kulen Hills in the north and to the great lake, the Tonle Sap, in the south. Angkorean achievements in monumental architecture were equalled or surpassed in many places worldwide, but their achievements in hydraulic engineering, as far as can be told, were not.
Using Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing, the Archaeological Computing Laboratory at the University of Sydney is investigating the nature of Angkorian urbanism, and exploring the reasons for its ultimate decline.
Sponsors:
The Geographic Information Science Center
The Pacific Neighborhood Consortium
The Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies
The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interests of Society
Center for Southeast Asia Studies
Contact: cari@uclink.berkeley.edu.

Digitally Archiving and Mapping Cultural History
5/5/2003
Time: 3:00PM
Location: Stone Room, Bancroft Library
Description: Alan Potkin will discuss the varied cultural preservation work he and art historian/archaeologist Catherine Raymond have undertaken at the Digital Conservation Facility, Laos. For more information, see: http://gisc.berkeley.edu/news/05052003Lecture.pdf or contact Caverlee Cary cari@uclink.berkeley.edu.
Sponsors: Geographic Information Science Center, Pacific Neighborhood Consortium, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, Center for Design Visualization, ECAI and CITRIS.

Computer Applications in Archaeology
4/8/2003-4/12/2003
Location: Vienna, Austria
Description: ECAI will participate in this event.

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.

Association of Asian Studies
3/27/2003-3/30/2003
Location: New York
Description: Lewis Lancaster will be a discussant on a panel dealing with scholarship and digital material organized by Helena Kolenda of the Luce Foundation.

A Virtual Museum & 3D Information System for Giotto’s Masterpiece: The Scrovegni Chapel Project
3/4/2003
Time: 5:00PM
Location: Shorb House, 2547 Channing Way
Description: Considered a masterpiece of European art, the Scrovegni Chapel was painted by Giotto in the period 1303-1305. A recent restoration helped stabilize the toll the ages have taken on the delicate painted walls of this historic structure, but restricted public access. With visits limited to 20 people at a time and no more than 15 minutes, there was a pressing need to increase “musealisation” and allow the public to experience the monument. In response, the City of Padua and Institute of Technologies Applied to Cultural Heritage of the National Research Council (Rome) have created a virtual reality system dedicated to a spatial 3D reconstruction and re-composition of the Chapel.
The history, custom software, and philosophy behind this Virtual Museum and 3D graphical information system (of both Giotto’s paintings and the physical architecture of the monument) will be presented. A custom C++ application (with 83,000 lines of code, 3GB of textures and the ability to drive 33,000 polygons in real time) features over 500 links and 100 menus. Following the cybernetic thinking of Gregory Bateson, the author will describe his methodological and philosophical approach to digital environment as virtual ecosystem. Five multimedia installations dedicated to specific facets of Giotto’s work have been created for the new Wiegand Multimedia Centre at the Ermitani Museum, a short distance from the Chapel. With the grand opening March 25th, this lecture represents the world preview of this important multidisciplinary initiative.
Dr. Maurizio Forte is Senior Scientist of the Institute of Technologies Applied to Cultural Heritage at the Italian National Research Council, National Research Council (CNR), Rome, Italy.
The talk is sponsored by the Center for Design Visualization and Archaeological Research Facility, in collaboration with the Geographic Information Science Center.

Resource Sharing for Humanities Research: Digitizing Japanese Classical Literature
2/24/2003
Time: 4:00PM
Location: 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor Conference Room
Description: Pioneers in utilizing technology for humanities research are developing models for digital access and data-sharing. The National Institute of Japanese Literature has been engaged in database development for the ancient classics of Japanese literature. Professor Shoichiro Hara, National Institute of Japanese Literature, will outline the overall project, the complexities of dealing with Japanese literature in a digital environment, and the technical aspects of the project. The event is free and open to the public.
Sponsored by: Ctr. for Japanese Studies, PNC, ECAI, CITRIS, GISC

Japan Mapped: Historical Maps for Digital Display and Research
1/22/2003
Time: 3:00 - 5:00PM
Location: Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall, University of California, Berkeley
Description: David Rumsey will present the work his company, Cartography Associates, has done in collaboration with The East Asian Library to digitize and geo-rectify a number of historical maps of Japan from the library's Mitsui collection. For more information about this project and the map collection, see: http://www.davidrumsey.com/japan/.
Sponsored by: ECAI, GIS Center, Center for Japanese Studies

New Horizons for Southeast Asia's Past: Global Approaches to Digital Archive Management
1/6/2003-1/11/2003
Location: Siem Reap, Cambodia
Description: Symposium: January 6, 2003 Open to the Public
Workshop: January 7-11, 2003 By invitation
For more information, please see: http://www.gisc.berkeley.edu/projects/seaatlas/apsara.html, or contact Caverlee Cary: cari@uclink.berkeley.edu or Leslie Woodhouse: lesliew@uclink.berkeley.edu
For a program description and list of participants, see: http://www.autoriteapsara.org.

American Historical Association
1/3/2003-1/5/2003
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Description: There will be several papers on ECAI activities, one panel including David Bodenhamer and another by Anne Knowles.

Geographic Information Systems and a Reexamination of the Great Irish Potato Famine
12/9/2002
Time: 3:00 - 4:30Pm
Description: Event has been cancelled
Dr. Paul S. Ell, Director of the Centre for Data Digitization and Analysis,Queens University, Belfast , Ireland
Sponsored by: GISC, ECAI and CSHE

International Association of Buddhist Studies Conference
12/7/2002-12/12/2002
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Description: Caverlee Cary will present "Sacred Space and CyberSpace: Coping with Buddhist Studies in the Digital Realm."

The Use of Satellite Imagery for Historical Mapping and Studying Urban Expansion
12/2/2002
Time: 4:00 - 5:30PM
Location: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS) Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
Description: Dr. Roland Fletcher, Department of Archeology, University of Sydney, Australia will discuss the use of satellite imagery for historical mapping and studying urban expansion with cases studies from Cambodia and Korea.
Sponsored by: GISC,Ctr Korean Studies,Ctr SEA Studies,CSHE,ECAI

The Digitization of the Historical Atlas of China
11/25/2002
Time: TBA
Location: TBA

Presented by: I-chun Fan, Institute of Modern History,Academia Sinica
Sponsored by: GISC, Ctr Chinese Studies,EAL, CSHE, ECAI

E-Historical Atlas of China
11/21/2002
Time: 1:00 - 2:00PM
Location: IEAS Conference Room, 6th Floor, 2223 Fulton
Description: A public demonstration of the e-Historical Atlas of China
Sponsored by: Center of Chinese Studies, EAL, ECAI, CITRIS

China Historical Geographical Information Systems
11/11/2002
Time: 4:00-5:30PM
Location: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS) Conference Room
2223 Fulton Street, 6th Fl.
Description: Professors Jianxiong Ge & Zhimin Man, Institute of Historical Geography, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, will speak about the progress being made on the China Historical GIS project.
Sponsored by: GISC, CCS, CSHE, ECAI

Update on the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
11/1/2002
Time: 3:00 - 5:00PM
Location: South Hall 107
Description: Lewis Lancaster will provide an update and progress report on the work of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI), an international effort, based at Berkeley, to enhance scholarship through increased attention to time and place. The origins and mission of ECAI. Strategies adopted for international community building, software development, training institutes, and standards development. Recent efforts have focused on the design of online gazetteers, creating e-publications that include dynamic maps, and the incorporation geo-temporal resources in teaching. The role of communities in cultural history and the use of time and space to provide new insights for research and analysis. Examples of how attention to time and space and map visualization can advance scholarship.

Lewis Lancaster is the Directory of ECAI and Emeritus Professor of Buddhist Studies & of East Asian Languages & Cultures

Digital Map Project
10/28/2002
Time: 5:00-5:15PM
Location: IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
Description: The Institute for East Asian Studies and the Center for Japanese Studies is hosting the 10th Annual Bakai. Among the events is a presentation by Yuki Ishimatsu (Head Librarian in Japanese Selections, East Asian Library) on the Digital Map Project.

Social Science History Association
10/24/2002-10/27/2002
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Description: ECAI associates are participating in many historical geography sessions, including sessions on both metadata and GIS. A session on ECAI electronic publication is organized by Paul Ell.

Democratizing Metadata: Should Those who Create Documents Write their Own Metadata
10/18/2002
Time: 3:00 - 5:00PM
Location: South Hall 107
Description: A connected set of developments in the world of information has led to an assumption: that those who create documents also create the metadata for them. This differs from practice in libraries where authors write books and cataloguers create descriptions of them.
The rise of author-created metadata has been particularly influential (and therefore instructive) in the implementation of corporate document management systems. As these have developed into, or influenced, knowledge management, enterprise prortals, and all other so-called "seamless solutions" for corporate information management, the problems of how to create valid and useful metadata have become pressing. This talk will examine these issues and their implications for metadata generally.

Presentation by: Maggie Exon, Visiting Scholar,Curtin University of Technology, Australia

World Heritage in the Digital Age: UNESCO World Heritage Center 30th Anniversary Virtual Congress: October-November 2002
10/1/2002-11/1/2002
Description: ECAI will participate in the Virtual Congress. At the associated conference Heritage Management Mapping: GIS and Multimedia, Alexandria, Egypt, October 21-23, 2002 there will be a presentation by Ian Johnson.

American Association of State and Local History
9/25/2002-9/28/2002
Location: Portland, Oregon
Description: Presentation by David Bodenhamer

ECAI Workshop: Virtual Systems and Multimedia Conference
9/25/2002-9/27/2002
Location: Kyongju, Korea
Description: Lewis Lancaster, Ian Johnson and Caverlee Cary will participate in this upcoming VSMM conference. The delegates will hold a workshop exploring the ECAI methodology and the use of TimeMap™ technology. The workshop will be on September 25 and is open to all participants in the VSMM conference. Additionally, Caverlee Cary will participate in the "GIS and Archaeology" panel and present "Mapping Matters: The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative as an Infrastructure for Visualizing Scholarly Research".

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

ECAI Institute: United Kingdom
9/12/2002
Location: United Kingdom
Description: ECAI is co-sponsor of a workshop entitled "GIS in the Arts and Humanities". Led by William Kilbride and Ian Gregory, this one day workshop seeks to raises awareness of GIS for scholars across the UK. Demand for the event has been overwhelming. The event is hosted by the Archaeology Data Service at the University of York, and has received additional support from Queen's University Belfast and the Association for Historical Computing. Initial planning for a repeat workshop is already under way. More information can be found at http://ahds.ac.uk/gis_workshop.htm or http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/rihss/gis.html.

17th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association: ACADEMIA SINICA
9/9/2002-9/15/2002
Location: Taipei, Taiwan
Description: The 17th Congress of IPPA will be hosted by the Institute for History and Philology on the Academia Sinica campus in Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan, from 9 to 15 September 2002. Cooperating institutions within Taiwan are the Department of Anthropology at National Taiwan University, the National Museum of Prehistory at Taitung, the Program for Asian and Pacific Research at Academia Sinica, and the National Museum of Natural Science at Taichung. On September 12th, Caverlee Cary will present "Making (Cyber) Space for Southeast Asia: The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative as Infrastructure for Research and Cultural Resource Management".

GIS and the Humanities Workshop: University of Sydney
9/5/2002-9/6/2002
Location: Sydney, Australia
Description: Ian Johnson and Andrew Wilson will be conducting a 2 day workshop on behalf of the Australian e-Humanities Network (http://www.ehum.edu.au/), building on their experience in GIS training workshops for archaeologists. They will highlight the work of ECAI to the participants.
See more on this event: http://www.ehum.edu.au/

University of California Computing Services Conference
7/23/2002-7/30/2002
Location: Berkeley, California
Description: Presentations by Ruth Mostern and Jeanette Zerneke

Digital Gazetteers: Integration into Distributed Digital Library Services
7/18/2002
Location: Portland, Oregon
Description: Presentation by Ruth Mostern

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

Sound Travels: A Musical Journey Along the Silk Road
4/19/2002-4/28/2002
Location: University of California, Berkeley
Description: Led by artistic director Yo-Yo Ma and a distinguished international ensemble of musicians, the Silk Road Project features ten days of concerts and educational events on the Berkeley campus, April 19-28, 2002. Like the historic Silk Road - a vast network of trade routes linking the people and traditions of Asia with those of Europe between the first millennium A.D.-the Silk Road Project at UC Berkeley has inspired the cross-pollination of ideas, resulting in exciting interdisciplinary conversations and artistic collaborations.
See more on this event: http://www.calperfs.berkeley.edu/presents/season/2001/new_notable/index.html#educ

Time Travels on the Web: The ECAI Digital Infrastructure for Asian Studies
4/6/2002
Time: 1 pm
Location: Association for Asian Studies, Washington, D.C., Coolidge Room
Description: ECAI is building a digital library of research projects accessible through a time-enabled map interface. This panel showcases several examples of digital projects working with ECAI technology. The range of material presented in terms of region, topic, time period, and methodology, suggests the promise of ECAI as a means of enabling digital collaboration.

Chair: Susan Whitfield, British Library

"The International Dunhaung Project: A Visualisation of Trade, Religion, Art and Life Along the Silk Road"
Susan Whitfield, British Library

"Staking Claims: Using GIS to Document Village/State Negotiations During the Minh-Mang Era in Vietnam"
Brian Zottoli, University of Michigan

"The Historical E-Atlas of China: Building a Spatio-Temporal Infrastructure for Interdisciplinary Studies"
I-Chun Fan and Eric Yen, Academia Sinica

"Literary Geography: Charting the Spatio-temporal Dimension to Japanese Classical Literature"
Delmer Brown, UC Berkeley

Discussant: Thomas Hahn, Cornell University

Past Time Past Place: GIS for History
3/19/2002
Time: 5 pm
Location: Maude Fife Room, 322 Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley Campus
Description: Anne Kelley Knowles explores the possibilities that have opened up to humanities scholars and social scientists in appropriating Geographic Information Systems softwares to map and analyze the past. Knowles, author of a pioneering new book Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History, discusses how historians in a wide range of disciplines are using geographic information systems (GIS) to organize historical research, explore evidence in new ways, and re-examine long-standing views from a geographical perspective.
Contact the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) for further information - (510) 643-1529.
Sponsored by: ECAI, GISC, American Cultures Program

Asia Pacific Advanced Network Conference
1/23/2002
Location: Phuket, Thailand
Description: Presentations will be made by David Blundell, Brian Zottoli, and Caverlee Cary.

ECAI Southeast Asia Team Working Group For Digital Cultural Resources: Time-Enabled GIS and Cultural Resources Cultural Resource Management Workshop
1/7/2002-1/8/2002
Location: Hue, Vietnam
Description: A conference to establish a working group promoting geo-referenced digital cultural resources in Southeast Asia, and workshop introducing the potential for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and specifically TimeMap™ for cultural resource management. The workshop participants include: Ian Johnson, Caverlee Cary, Larry Crissman and Ge Jianxiong. A website describing this workshop will be available shortly. Until the meeting website is online, please contact Brian Zottoli, brian@hn.vnn.vn, or Caverlee Cary, cari@uclink4.berkeley.edu, for further information.

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

ECAI Institute: Institutional Collaboration
11/26/2001-11/30/2001
Location: Polis Center, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis
Description: The second ECAI Institute training will focus on ECAI Institutional collaborators including large institutional archives, museums and libraries. For further information please email Jeanette Zerneke at jlz@uclink.berkeley.edu.

Social Science History Association
11/15/2001-11/18/2001
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Description: ECAI British Isles Editor Paul Ell is organizing a double session on ECAI at this meeting. A number of additional ECAI affiliates are presenting papers on other panels dealing with spatial data, historical GIS, and related issues of interest to ECAI. On November 16, there will be a meeting of ECAI affiliates and additional guests attending SSHA to discuss the use of spatial data in the social sciences and explore next steps for ECAI.
See more on this event: http://www.ssha.org/

"Uses of GIS in Research", University of California, Davis
11/1/2001
Description: Instruction by Caverlee Cary and David Blundell.

Unicode and Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Working Group Meeting at VSMM Conference
10/27/2001-10/28/2001
Location: 279 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley Campus, Berkeley, CA
Description:
October 27 9 am - 5 pm
October 28 9 am - 12 pm
A meeting is scheduled to discuss proposed revisions to the Text Encoding Initiative's Guidelines on how to handle characters and character sets, particularly in multilingual digital documents. ECAI affiliate Susan Stone will be attending these meetings.
See more on this event: http://www.vsmm.org/vsmm2001/ecai.cfm

The 7th International Convention on Virtual Systems and MultiMedia, VSMM 2001
10/25/2001-10/27/2001
Location: Berkeley, California
Description: This year's conference theme is "ENHANCED REALITIES: Augmented and Unplugged." As part of the conference schedule, ECAI will host a Special Session on GIS and the Visualization of Cultural Research. Included in the session will be presentations of major digital projects by three ECAI affiliates. ECAI will also co-host a reception for guests involved in cultural heritage issues attending the conference and from the UC Berkeley campus community, and conduct a workshop on Spatial Representation and the Visualization of Cultural Heritage. In this workshop, participants will address the issues of visualization that pertain to ECAI's vision of a scholarly distributed atlas of culture and history. ECAI’s TimeMap™ methodology will be presented as a solution for heritage managers and scholars seeking to create web-based projects with rich spatial and temporal data.
ECAI organizer for the conference is Caverlee Cary.
See more on this event: http://www.vsmm.org/vsmm2001

Transnational Atlas of Saints Cults
10/17/2001-10/18/2001
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Description: Rain Simar will represent ECAI at this meeting.

ECAI Institute – The Alpha Version
9/17/2001-9/21/2001
Location: University of California, Berkeley
Description: This first *Alpha* version of the ECAI Institute is sponsored by ECAI, The Polis Center at Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis, and the Geographic Information Science Center, UC Berkeley. The training will focus on development of ECAI publications and projects. For further information please email Jeanette Zerneke at jlz@uclink.berkeley.edu

Unicode and Text Encoding Working Group Meeting
9/6/2001
Time: 5 pm
Location: 209 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley Campus
Description: Rick McGowan (Unicode Vice President) will present an overview of Unicode and Ken Whistler (UCB Linguistics alumnus; Unicode Technical Director; U.S. rep. to ISO WG2) will discuss the future of Unicode.
See more on this event: http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/townsend/working_groups_top.html#UNI

Seeing Angkor: New Views on an Old City
8/24/2001
Time: 4 pm
Location: Stone Room, Doe Library, UC Berkeley Campus
Description: Roland Fletcher, Archaeological Computing Laboratory, University of Sydney.
For further information please email cari@uclink4.berkeley.edu

International Workshop on Historical GIS
8/22/2001-8/26/2001
Location: Fudan University in China
Description: ECAI is a co-sponsor of this event.
See more on this event: http://fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/meetings/shanghai.html

Gazetteer Workshop
8/20/2001-8/21/2001
Location: Taibei, Taiwan
Description: This will be a small meeting to discuss the content and architecture for a place name gazetteer for global cultural and historical spatial information. For more information about the workshop, contact Ruth Mostern ruth@socrates.berkeley.edu

Second International Conference of Asian Studies
8/8/2001-8/11/2001
Location: Berlin
Description: Caverlee Cary will represent ECAI at this conference.
See more on this event: http://www.fu-berlin.de/icas2/

Balancing the Protection and Promotion of Historic Roads
7/27/2001-7/30/2001
Location: Cumberland, Maryland
Description: Caverlee Cary will represent ECAI at this meeting co-organized by ECAI affiliate Daniel Bonenberger.

ESRI Users Meeting
7/10/2001-7/13/2001
Location: San Diego, California
Description: Ruth Mostern will represent ECAI at this meeting.
See more on this event: http://www.esri.com/events/uc

World History Association Meeting
6/29/2001-7/1/2001
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Description: Ruth Mostern will represent ECAI at this meeting.
See more on this event: http://www.whc.neu.edu/wha/

International Digital Earth Meeting
6/24/2001-6/28/2001
Location: Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Description: Karen Kemp, University of Redlands, will represent ECAI at this meeting.
See more on this event: http://www.digitalearth.ca/digital_live/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

Advances in Virtual Reality Research: Realtime Virtual Environments, 3D Mapping, and other projects from the Virtual System Laboratory, Gifu University, Japan
5/4/2001
Location: IEAS Conference Room, 6th Floor, 2223 Fulton Street

Architectural History in Palo Alto and Stanford, California: The Evaluation of Context, Significance and Spatial Relationships Using GIS
4/27/2001
Location: 220 Stephens Hall (Townsend Center Conference Room)

3D Documentation and Dissemination in the Conservation of Built Heritage: Field Reports from al-Balid Archaeological Park, Oman, and the Roman Theatre of Jebleh, Syria
4/18/2001
Location: 340 Stephens Hall (CMES Sultan Conference Room)
Description: The talk will provide an overview of scientific methodologies and development in the area of digital doucmentation of architectural and archaeologic heritage. Using two recent project sites in the Middle East, al-Balid Archaeological Park in Oman, and the Roman Theatre of Jebleh, Syria, we will explore some of the challenges and opportunities new digital technologies offer.

Environmental Media
4/5/2001
Location: 220 Stevens Hall, Townsend Center Conference Room, UC Berkeley
Description: Scott will be updating us on current research by his group at Keio University in the application of GPS, wireless, augmented reality, and other technologies for environmental media gathering, linking, and enhancing. His research has exciting applicability to everything from environmental planning, to wayfinding, art, education, biology, cultural heritage,…

Association of Asian Studies
3/15/2001
Description: ECAI hosted panel, chaired by Associate Director Caverlee Cary, highlighting new work on Asian projects: The Historical GIS of China (Peter Bol and Merrick Berman, Harvard), the Digitized Korean Buddhist Canon (In-sub Hur, Research Institute of the Tripitaka Koreana), and the International Chinese Rubbings Project (Howie Lan, UC Berkeley). Janice Glowski demonstrated the latest version of TimeMap™ using material from the Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art in Ohio State University. (Approximate date)

The Center for the Analysis of Sacred Space (CASS)
3/15/2001
Location: University of California, Santa Barbara
Description: CASS sponsored a gathering of content and technical specialists to organize the materials gathered by researchers in India over the past semester. Photographs, video footage, audio recording, and text are to be coordinated in a seamless electronic project on sacred sites in India. (Approximate date)

Virtual Olympia 1000 Years of the Olympic Games: Treasures from Ancient Greece
3/6/2001
Location: 220 Stevens Hall, Townsend Center Conference Room, Berkeley
Description: And overview of the exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney will be discussed and shown. The exhibition offered a unique opportunity to supplement the traditional experience of the visitor by the introduction of virtual reality components

"Faces of the Buddha" Lecture Series
2/25/2001
Location: Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
Description: Caverlee Cary will give a demonstration for ECAI.

Association of American Geographers
2/15/2001
Location: New York, NY
Description: Lew Lancaster, Director of ECAI, chaired and discussed ECAI, accompanied by John Corrigan of Arizona State University and David Bodenhamer of the Polis Center, IUPUI. Karen Kemp of the University of Redlands acted as discussant. GIS expert Anne Knowles co-organized the event in conjunction with a series of panels on GIS in the humanities. (Approximate date)

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

A Digital Storehouse of Treasures: The British Library Perspective
11/9/2000
Location: South Hall 107

Mapping Spanish Missions
11/6/2000
Location: 223 Moses Hall (enter through 215, Institute of International Studies)

Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies
10/7/2000
Location: Long Beach, California
Description: Presentations by Karen Kemp, Caverlee Cary, William Powell.

Demonstration on CAJ Databases
9/15/2000
Location: Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall

China Academic Journal Databases
9/15/2000
Location: Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall
Description: Tsinghua Tongfang Optical Disc Co., Ltd and China Academic Journal Electronic Publishing House.

Current conditions and future prospects for developing digital resources in China
9/15/2000
Location: Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall

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

The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative Cities Project: Using GIS in the Study of Cities
4/27/2000
Location: IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Fl.
Description: Roundtable Discussion following Institute for East Asian Studies Workshop on "Shanghai"
Sponsored by: IAS

Working with Spatio-Temporal Data in the Humanities
4/24/2000
Location: Bancroft Library, Stone Room
Description: Brief presentations and extended discussion on the role of spatial data in humanities research.
Sponsored by: IAS

Time and Space Retrieval
4/11/2000
Location: Earth Sciences Library Seminar Room, 50 McCone Hall
Sponsored by: IAS

Imaging Antiquity: The Cairo Project
4/6/2000
Location: Earth Sciences Library Seminar Room, 50 McCone Hall
Sponsored by: IAS

Presentations on North American Historic Mapping and Research
4/3/2000
Location: Bancroft Library, Stone Room
Sponsored by: IAS

Political Territory in Imperial China: How to Imagine Historically Accurate Base Maps
3/22/2000
Location: 575 McCone Hall
Sponsored by: IAS

Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting
3/11/2000
Location: San Diego, California
Description: Presentations by Susan Whitfield, Caverlee Cary, Shoichiro Hara, Howie Lan.

The Hartwell Historical GIS of China
3/7/2000
Location: 223 Moses Hall
Sponsored by: IAS

Uncovering Spatio-temporal Data in the Humanities
3/1/2000
Location: 223 Moses Hall
Sponsored by: IAS

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

Academy of American Religion Annual Meeting
11/11/1999
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Description: Presentations by William Thomas, Briane Turley, Ben Ray, Caverlee Cary.

Digital Museum Seminar, Academia Sinica
7/22/1999
Location: Taipei, Taiwan
Description: Presentations by Caverlee Cary and Susan Ketchner

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.