EVENTWEB FOR DISSEMINATING CULTURAL HISTORY

Ramesh Jain, Department of Computer Science, University of California,
Irvine, CA 92697, Email: jain@ics.uci.edu

EventWeb allows creation of independent events, associate all information and experiences associated with it, and link them to other relevant events.  An event can be created by anybody and then like a multimedia wiki, anybody could contribute information and experiences to this event.  The creator of the event as well as other users can link an event to other related events.  Events can be searched based on their location, time, type, associated information and experiences.  This allows people to understand relationships among events, gain insights among the cases and effects of events, and tell stories about events and relationships among them.  We have developed a system called Seraja for providing tools to implement EventWeb.  This platform has been used for some time in our group.

Seraja can be effectively used to provide a web-based platform to create events in cultural history by scholars.  All relevant event information in the form of text, photos, videos, and three-dimensional data can be associated with these events by scholars in different places.  Causal and other types of links among these events could also be created by scholars and analysts.  This web-based information can then be easily accessed and utilized by people in any part of the world.  In this paper, we will present basic concepts behind the platform and then explain how to use it fro creating Cultural History EventWeb.