For the past two years, a great deal of my time has been taken up with holding the post of president at the University of the West in Southern California. I took on that task to help them achieve full accreditation and that goal has now been completed. Therefore, I am returning to my research projects and ECAI and will retire from the position at U West in August. Let me express my appreciation to Michael Buckland, Kim Carl, and Jeanette Zerneke as well was the ECAI Executive Committee for providing wonderful leadership over these past months. It is my hope that we can go forward with the work of ECAI. The tasks associated with the development of digital technology in Social Sciences and Humanities are as numerous and difficult as they were nine years ago when we formed ECAI. I am looking forward to seeing many of you at the Seoul meeting in August and the spring Congress of Cultural Atlases in Moscow. We are also making plans for a large session at Berkeley in the fall of 2007, when we join with the celebration of the opening of the new East Asian Library building. A word of gratitude to all the affiliates who have made ECAI an integral part of the research groups for the new technologies.

Upcoming Conferences

ECAI Meeting in conjunction with PNC and PRDLA
8/16/2006-8/18/2006
Location: Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
CFP: http://ecai.org/activities/2006korea/cfp-korea2006.html
Conference site: http://library.snu.ac.kr/PRDLA/index.jsp

ECAI Congress of Cultural Atlases
Spring 2007
Moscow

ECAI/PNC/PRDLA joint meetings
Fall 2007
UC Berkeley

Recent Conferences

ECAI held its Spring 2006 meetings in conjunction with the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) conference in Fargo, ND.
We extend our gratitude to CAA for including us in their conference program and especially to the conference coordinator, Jeffrey Clark, for welcoming ECAI and integration us into the larger conference.

Presentations made in the ECAI sessions are available from: http://ecai.org/activities/2006Fargo/presentations.html

Upcoming Events
See http://ecai.org/activities/events.asp for more detail on all events.

Remote Sensing and Archaeology in Southeast Asia
6/25/2006-6/26/2006
Location: Bangkok, Thailand

Angkor - Landscape, City and Temple
7/18/2006-7/23/2006
Location: University of Sydney, Australia

2nd International Conference on Remote Sensing in Archaeology
12/4/2006-12/7/2006
Location: CNR: Piazzale Aldo Moro, 7 - 00185, Roma, Italia

Projects

IMLS Project "Support the Learner: What, Where, When and Who"
A list of project-related presentations and publications is available on the project website at http://ecai.org/imls2004/publications.htm
A paper on the prototype Named Time Period Directory has been presented at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries:
Vivien Petras, Ray Larson, & Michael Buckland. Time Period Directories: A Metadata
    Infrastructure for Placing Events in Temporal and Geographic Context.
    Forthcoming in: Opening Information Horizons: Joint Conference on Digital
    Libraries (JCDL), Chapel Hill, NC, June 11-15, 2006. (PDF)

Publications

The March issue of DLib magazine carries a positive review of ECAI’s IMLS-sponsored project presented at WebWise in February 2006. Stuart Weibel wrote the formal summary of the conference available from: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march06/weibel/03weibel.html

University of Virginia, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. (2006) Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities: Report on Summit accomplishments. Available from http://www.iath.virginia.edu/dtsummit/SummitText.pdf

Zerneke, Jeannette L., Michael K. Buckland & Kim Carl. Temporally. (2006). Dynamic Maps: The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative Experience. Human IT 8.3: Available from http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-8/index.htm

GIS Monitor (2006). GIS for Archaeology. Available from http://www.gismonitor.com/news/newsletter/archive/
archives.php?issue=20060615&style=web&length=full#archaeology

Team Reports

Ibero-Mundo Atlas Team
Editors: Dr. Miguel Bernabé, Polytechnic University of Madrid, and Dr. J. B. “Jack” Owens, Idaho State University

Below is the summary of an annual report put out by the team. The full report can be found at: http://ecai.org/area/teamreports/2005-2006_Iberia.rtf

•2 June 2005 - Ibero-Mundo Atlas Team presented the beta version of its cultural atlas of Spanish Roman Catholic devotional shrines at the GIS Planet 2005 meeting in Estoril, Portugal.
• New Master’s degree program in geographically-integrated history established at Idaho State University. See articles in Journal of the Association for History and Computing http://mcel.pacificu.edu/jahc/JAHCVIII2/articles/owenswoodworth.htm and ArcNews - http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/fall05articles/idaho-state-univ.html
• New Ph.D. program in Geographic Information Science at the Polytechnic University of Madrid.
• January 2006 - "Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and History: Aggregating Data, Connecting Places, and Analyzing Processes" roundtable held at the American Historical Association in Philadelphia, PA
• During 2005-2006, as a Guggenheim Fellow, Owens has continued his GIS-based work on smuggling networks and is completing a short book on the subject.
• Bernabé and Owens have helped prepare a multinational and multidisciplinary funding proposal for a European Science Foundation EUROCORES Scheme entitled “The Evolution of Cooperation and Trading. The title of the proposal is “Dynamic Complexity of Cooperation-Based Self-Organizing Networks in the First Global Age” (acronym DynCoopNet). See above for the link to the full report for more detail.

Director's Report

June 2006