Creating and Publishing

  • You are a scholar in the humanities, history, the social sciences, or a related field. Or maybe you work for a non-governmental organization that is digitizing cultural heritage resources. Perhaps you are a curator, librarian or archivist.
  • If you would like to see your resources visualized on a temporo-spatial interface and made interoperable with other scholars' work, you may create an ECAI-compatible project.
  • If you would like your project to remain perpetually accessible and to be refereed by an editorial board, you may submit it for electronic publication though the ECAI partnership with the California Digital Library eScholarship project.
  • If you plan to affiliate your project with ECAI, send a title, a URL and an abstract of the project to ecai@berkeley.edu. Your project information will be visible on the website even if you have not created anything that is compatible with the ECAI architecture.
  • ECAI compatible projects have several characteristics.
    1. ECAI is a globally distributed library of projects. You must mount your project on a web server and write ECAI metadata in order for it to be visible.
    2. ECAI uses the paradigms of time and space to visualize resources using the TimeMap™ interface. Only resources that have a time and space manifestation can be compatible.
    3. The ECAI infrastructure is capable of recognizing object-level data in a spatial database. If you do not distinguish various spatial or temporal objects in your project, you can still participate, but your project will be visible only as a dot or a shaded area on a map. In order to have a more complex project, you can maintain a field for space and a field for time for each of the objects (people, events, images, marked items in a text) in your project.
    4. For more information about how to create an ECAI project, see the Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a TimeMap™ Dataset or contact us.

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