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Local space; global connections: visualising cultural data through space and time:

The 4th Congress of Cultural Atlases
22-24 April 2008

Curtin University of Technology
Perth, Western Australia

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Programme
Tuesday 22nd April 2008
8.30-9.30 am Registration
9.30-9.40 am Opening
9.40-10.20 am

Keynote address
Professor Lewis Lancaster,
University of California and Director of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative

10.20-10.50 am Morning Tea
10.50-11.30 am

Boodjah – The Diversity of Nyungar Cartography
Glen Stasiuk
Kulbardi Aboriginal Centre, Murdoch University

11.30-12.30 pm

Mapping colonial Northbridge
Creating a historical GIS of Perth
Felicity Morel-Ednie Brown
Department of Premier and Cabinet

12.30-1.30 pm Lunch
1.30-2.00 pm

Local and global: the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI).
Jeanette Zerneke

2.00-2.30 pm

The China Religion Atlas: collaborative approaches to project development
Howie Lan
University of California Berkeley

2.30-3.00 pm

Place-names and geo-coding: making your data work for you
Maggie Exon
Faculty of Media Society and Culture, Curtin University of Technology

3.00-3.20 pm Afternoon tea
3.20-3.55 pm

Beating about the Holocene bush: palaeo-environmental reconstruction in SW Australia
Rob Corner
Department of Spatial Sciences, Curtin University of Technology

3.55-4.20 pm

Mapping sustainability and sense of place with primary school children
Laura Stocker and Gary Burke
Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute

4.20-4.55 pm

Increasing the physical activity of kids with community Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Cecilia Xia
Department of Spatial Sciences, Curtin University of Technology

5.00-6.00 pm

Welcome drinks in the foyer of the lecture theatre

Wednesday 23 April 2008
8.30-9.00 am Registration
9.00-9.30 am

The Western Australian Cultural Heritage Portal
Toby Burrows
Scholars’ Centre, University of Western Australia Library

9.30-10.00 am

New Norcia: isolation and archives
Peter Hocking
Archivist, Benedictine Monastery, New Norcia

10.00-10.30 am

Multiple data repositories interoperability
Shoichiro Hara
National Institute of Japanese Literature, Tokyo

10.30-10.50 am Morning tea
10.50-11.20 pm

Place names in Western Australian history
Brian Goodchild
Landgate, Western Australia

11.20-11.50 noon

Mapping the spatial extent of Western Australia localities and physical features
Danielle Stefani
Landgate, Western Australia

11.50-12.30 pm

Using GIS for biodiversity management
Rod Nowrojee and Anthea Jones
Department of Environment and Conservation, Western Australia
Anthea Jones

12.30-1.30 pm Lunch
1.30-2.00 pm

Local to Global: Indo-Pacific Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) Languages Mapping Features
David Blundell
National Chengchi University, Taiwan

2.00-2.30 pm

Beginning a family project: local multimedia historical memoirs
Jeanette Zerneke
University of California Berkeley

2.30-3.00 pm

Approaches to historical GIS in the United Kingdom
Paul Ell
Queens University Belfast

3.00-3.20 pm Afternoon tea
3.20-3.50 pm

Family names and the mapping of migration
Maggie Exon
Faculty of Media Society and Culture, Curtin University

3.50-5.00 Panel Discussion
Evening

Trip to Fremantle to have a seafood supper on the harbour (please nominate at registration if interested in this activity)

Thursday 24 April 2008

Practical workshop
9.30am-4.30pm

The preparation of data, mapping techniques and the use of services such as Google Earth and Google maps
Jeanette Zerneke, Howie Lan, Maggie Exon