Austronesian Cultures in Taiwan: Studies Funded by the Berkeley Shung Ye Fund

Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, University of California, Berkeley.

Austronesian Cultures in Taiwan:
Studies Supported by the Berkeley Shung Ye Fund

The University of California, Berkeley benefits from having a Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines Endowment Fund. This fund came to the University through the generosity of the N.W. Lin Foundation for Culture and Education.
The UC Berkeley Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines Endowment Fund awarded grants to support the work of David S. Blundell, Visiting Scholar, Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) and ECAI Austronesia Team Editor; Michael K. Buckland, Emeritus Professor of Information School and Co-Director of ECAI; and Jeanette Zerneke, ECAI Technical Director.

Austronesian Electronic Atlas Initiative Linguistic Mapping, $16,000, 2000-01.

Mapping Formosan Austronesian Languages, $11,500, 2001-02.

The Distribution of Aboriginal Languages from Taiwan to the Philippines: Digital Continuous Mapping of the Batanic Languages, $17,000, 2003-04.

Orchid Island and the Batanes: A Cultural Atlas of Languages and Cultures, $13,000, 2005-06.

Orchid Island (Lan-yu) and the Batanes: A Cultural Atlas of Languages and Cultures. $30,000. 2007-2008.

The work supported by these grants have enabled the ECAI Austronesian Team to do significantly more than would otherwise have been possible.

See Web sites:

ECAI Austronesia
Pacific Language Mapping
Batanes Islands Cultural Atlas