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ECAI Director's Report - Nov. 2008
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ECAI Directors’ Report - November 2008 Priority Announcement: ECAI Fall Meeting in Hanoi, Dec 4-6, 2008, meetings December 2 & 3 The International Joint GIS-IDEAS, PNC and ECAI Conference 2008 will be held December 4-6, 2008, in Hanoi, Vietnam. For details see http://ecai.org/activities/2008-Hanoi/08hanoi.html Note that the ECAI General meeting will be held December 3, 3 - 5 p.m. to which all are invited. ECAI/EFEO Workshop: Siem Reap November 29-30, 2008 ECAI is collaborating with the Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO, Paris, France, http://www.efeo.fr ) on a workshop in Siem Reap, Vietnam. The purpose of this workshop from the standpoint of ECAI is to explore the possibilities of closer ties to EFEO and to provide suggestions for ways in which EFEO data can be geo-registered in the future. We want to thank Franciscus Verellen, Director of EFEO and Dr. Christophe Pottier from the Siem Reap office for their support in helping plan and handling local arrangements for this workshop. http://ecai.org/activities/2008-EFEO-ECAI-Siem_Reap.pdf ECAI Central will bring a group to Siem Reap including: Lewis Lancaster, Director of ECAI Howie Lan (Berkeley, Technical adviser for ECAI) Jeanette Zerneke (Berkeley, Technical Director for ECAI) Ralph Moon (Berkeley, Head of the Sanskrit Workgroup) Damian Evans from University of Sydney will assist in the workshop. There will be representatives from Vietnam Buddhist University in Ho Chi Minh, which has a project to geo-register the inscriptional rubbings being published by EFEO and the Vietnamese government in book format. Moghul Animation on YouTbe.com Remember the old days when you had to wait for a 50mb file to download in order to see the ECAI video of the expansion and contraction of the Moghuls in South Asia? Well those days are long past. This and several other classic ECAI videos are now up on YouTube. In addition, ethnographic videos from the Batanes Cultural Atlas and Sri Lankan Dance projects have been added. To view a menu of ECAI videos just search on YouTube for CulturalAtlasECAI. Recent Meetings Michael Buckland presented a poster and a paper summarizing ECAI’s projects “Bringing Lives to Light: Biography in Context” < http://ecai.org/imls2006 > and “Context and Relationships: Ireland and Irish Studies” < http://ecai.org/neh2007 > at the recent Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology in Columbus, Ohio.
Lewis Lancaster was a member of the workshop held in Maryland “Data Driven Scholarship” sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Future Meetings ECAI’s Spring 2009 Meeting will be held in conjunction with CAA (Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archeology) on March 22-26, 2009, Williamsburg, VA, USA, with the theme “making history interactive.” ECAI will be issuing a call for papers very soon. Those thinking of attending the conference and needing a visa to enter the U.S. should apply for your visa in mid-December. We’ve been advised that it can take up to 90 days to obtain a visa. The CAA conference website: http://www.caa2009.org/ ECAI also plans to have a major workshop in Chennai, India August 18-20, 2009, focusing on remote sensing of heritage sites. The workshop will be under the direction of Maurizio Forte from University of California, Merced and Dr. D. Dayalan, head archaeologist at the Taj Mahal, and Mario Hernandez of UNESCO. The Conference on “Time, Space, and Place” will focus on the general theme of “City and Urbanization” issues.
In addition, ECAI will join with Korea University in sponsoring a major international conference in Seoul, August 13-16 on the general topic of exploring cultural studies across Eurasia.
Past ECAI Directors’ Reports Past ECAI Directors’ Reports are available at http://ecai.org/about/directorsRpts.html
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