ECAI Austronesia Projects

ECAI Austronesia is an ongoing mapping process based on language and culture. The progress of the ECAI Austronesia Team has been significantly assisted by multiple grants by the University of California Berkeley Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines Endowment Fund to David Blundell and Michael Buckland.

Orchid Island Cultural Atlas Orchid Island (Lan-yu in Mandarin) is a small inhabited Island of the Southeast coast of Taiwan. Our 2004 research included documenting the construction of a traditional 10 man boat. Batanes Cultural Atlas The language and culture of the Batanes, the northern island province of the Philippines. Taiwan Projects The ECAI Austronesian Team members have been developing information on Austronesian Taiwan. Formosan Language Demo A Formosan and Yami Language demonstration mapspace is now available. The demo shows the possibilities for navigating from language map to related web sources. Cebuano Project The interactive Atlas showcases over 700 records of books in or about the Cebuano language of the Philippines.