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Director's Report

October 2007

ECAI’s 10th Anniversary and 20th International Conference
October 17 - 20, UC Berkeley, USA

Join us at UC Berkeley as ECAI celebrates its 10th anniversary and 20th international conference in conjunction with the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC).   

Wednesday, October 17
Meeting: ECAITech & ECAI Scholarship & Content, 3-6pm; 103 Stephens

Thursday, October 18

  • Opening Ceremonies, Keynote Speech: Ms. Pauline Yu, American Council of Learned Society
  • Libraries, Museums and Archives: Collections and Access in 2007 and Onward
  • Digital Archives and e-Libraries, Then and Now - Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information
  • Map Collection and GIS, Then and Now - David Rumsey, David Rumsey Map Collection

Friday, October 19

  • Cultural Atlases
  • e-Learning
  • Spatial and Temporal Conceptualization
  • e-Museum
  • Cultural Atlases Contextual Infrastructure
  • e-Resource and Service
  • Institutional Collaborations and Funding
  • e-Science
  • Tour of the new C.V. Starr East Asian Library and Chang-Lin Tien Center for East Asian Studies

Saturday, October 20

  • Biographical Mark-up
  • Project Showcase I : Progress and Prospects
  • Area Informatics I : Technical Aspects
  • Spatial and Temporal Visualization in the Humanities
  • Project Showcase II : Spatial History
  • Area Informatics II:  Application of Geo-temporal Systems to Area Studies
  • Google Earth Workshop

Registration is free and required.  See the complete program and registration information at:  http://pnclink.org/pnc2007/english/index.htm

The conference is one of a number of events celebrating the dedication of the new C.V. Starr East Asian Library and Chang-Lin Tien Center for East Asian Studies.  Complete conference and event information at: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EAL/starropening/

Contact Kimberly Carl with questions, kcarl@berkeley.edu