Dear Colleagues,
Please see the attached notice concerning the next
meeting of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative taking place
in London.
Humphrey Southall ([log in to unmask]) and me,
Paul Ell ([log in to unmask]), are now acting as editors of the
newly established British Isles ECAI regional team. We are
seeking colleagues with an interest in historical GIS, or
spatially referenced datasets for the British Isles, to
act as members of an executive committee for the British Isles
regional team, and others who may be interested in joining
existing thematic teams or, indeed, establishing new teams.
Existing thematic teams include:
* Cities
* Newspapers
* Census
* Linguistics
* Sacred Sites,
* Trade Routes
* Photographs
* Historical Atlas
We have arranged a session at the June conference and
would welcome expressions of interest from potential
contributors. Many colleagues will be familiar with the work of
the Historical GIS Project, now based at the University of
Portsmouth, and the Centre for Data Digitisation in Belfast. See
www.geog.port.ac.uk/gbhgis/ and www.qub.ac.uk/cdda/. This
research will form part of the June session but others are
welcome to participate.
If you wish to take part in the exciting new ECAI
British Isles developments, or for more information, please
contact Paul Ell ([log in to unmask]) in the first instance.
Best wishes,
Paul Ell
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ANNOUNCEMENT
The Electronic Atlas Cultural Initiative Conference
British Library, London
June 26-28, 2000
Additional Meetings of ECAI Tech, ECAI Editors, and Special topics groups:
June 23-25
Workshops: June 29-30
Registration is now open at the ECAI website
(www.ias.berkeley.edu/ecai/) for the June Meeting of ECAI.
Accommodation information can also be found at this site.
ECAI
The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) is an international
research project [www.ecai.org] aimed at the creation of distributed,
spatially referenced, GIS-style cultural databases which can be accessed
across the Internet from a common front-end software.
The ECAI project (initiated in 1997 and headed by Professor Lewis
Lancaster, East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California at
Berkeley), constitutes a new dimension in academic research, applications of
digital and networked technologies and international collaboration. At present
approximately 300 area specialists from ECAI Regional Teams*
in conjunction with ECAI Technical Teams, are producing an interactive
electronic atlas of the world from which selected data from regions, eras,
and disciplines can be accessed.
ECAI is planning to extend its geographical focus into Europe,
the Middle East and Africa. It has therefore asked the British
Library to host its 2000 conference and, over the following
months, experts in all fields in Britain will be approached to
attend and form their own Regional Teams for all aspects of
British, European, Middle Eastern and African history and
culture.
ECAI 2000 at The British Library will be an exciting and important forum.
There will be a reception on Monday 26 June 2000 to celebrate ECAI's aims
and achievements, attended by the UK Government Minister for Arts and
Libraries, Alan Howerth .
ECAI is an exemplar of international collaboration being used
to harness expertise worldwide in order to increase
public access to the world's culture and history via the
Internet.
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Dr Paul S. Ell
Director
The Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis
School of Sociology and Social Policy
The Queen's University of Belfast
Belfast
BT7 1NN
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
WWW: www.qub.ac.uk/cdda/
Discussion list: www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/history-digitisation
Phone: +44 (0)28 90273408
FAX: +44 (0)28 90320668
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