This project is a model for future language mapping because it combines the generation of a digital version of older printed language maps with the collection of data on contemporary language areas, and then use dynamic (time-enabled) map display techniques capable of showing visually the changes in language boundaries.

ECAI invites interested people and institutions to utilize the opportunity by joining this electronic database. Projects are interconnected showing layers of electronic maps utilized to record and plot time sequences of heritage information.

This scholarly and educational process includes linking to Indo-Pacific linguistics, archaeology, ethnology, sociology, geography, and history and is proceeding in phases to serve as a bulletin board for cultural exchange.