PNC
2002 Annual Conference and Joint Meetings held in Osaka
City University from September 20~23 have successfully finished.
More than three hundred participants from over 14 countries
came together to share their researches and knowledge in the
field of Internet, GIS, Metadata, Digital Archive, e-Learning,
e-Resource, Digital Museum and other technical problems.
The program
with Keynote Speech, six Plenary Sessions and twenty-nine
Parallel Sessions generated an enormous momentum that carried
over into the four-day Annual Conference and Joint meetings.
The most impressive part of this conference was the diverse
topics related to digitization of cultural resources, the
collection, new integrated architecture, change of working
process, sharing and dissemination data had paved paradigm
of collaboration, which exactly reflect the main theme of
this conference "Collaboration in the Digital Age".
An electronic
Proceedings, which contains the presentation materials and
full papers, will be made on a CD-ROM and sent to all participants
by the end of December. The additional information on the
conference, including photos of speakers and various events,
could be found at http://www.pnclink.org. Any comments about
the CD-ROM Proceedings, please contact Ms. Emma Liao at emma@ccweb.sinica.edu.tw or call 886-2-2789-9380.
PNC
2003 Annual Conference and Joint Meetings held in Maha
Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre (SAC) in Bangkok from
November 7 ~ 9 have successfully finished. More than 300 participants
from over 16 countries came together to share their researches
and knowledge in the field of Digital Archive, Digital Museum,
e-Learning, e-Resource, GIS, Grid, Metadata and other technical
problems. Furthermore, many of the international culture heritage
projects working in Southeast Asia such as UNESCO, ECAI and
SEAMEO sent delegates.
The program
with two Keynote Speeches delivered by M.R. Chakrarot Chitrabongs,
Permanent Secretary Ministry of Culture, Royal Thai Government
and Dr. Mike Keller, Stanford University and twenty-seven
Parallel Sessions generated an enormous momentum that carried
over into the three-day Annual Conference and Joint Meetings.
The diverse topics in the conference were related to Pacific
Rim Culture Heritage, digitization of cultural resources,
museum collections and digitalization, information future,
and new technology. Sharing and dissemination data had paved
paradigm of collaboration between digital technology and cultural
heritage, which exactly reflect the main theme of this conference
"Cultural Heritage and Collaboration in the Digital Age".
Electronic
Proceedings, which contain the presentation materials or full
papers, will be made on a CD-ROM and sent to all participants
by the end of February of year 2004. The additional information
on the conference, including photos of speakers and various
events, could be found at http://www.PNClink.org.
Any comments on the CD-ROM Proceedings, please contact Ms.
Vicky Huang at vichuang@gate.sinica.edu.tw or call +886-2-2789-9380.
After
months of active preparations and four days of intense activities
in an atmosphere of mutual sharing, the PNC 2004 Annual Conference
in conjunction with PRDLA held in Academia Sinica, Taipei
Taiwan from October 18~22 has come to a successful conclusion.
More than two hundred and fifty participants from over 14
countries came together to share their researches and knowledge
in the field of Digital Libraries, Digital Museums, Digital
Archives, GIS, Atlas, Metadata, e-Learning, e-Resource, Biodiversity,
e-Science and Grid, ECAI Plenary and National Palace museum
Plenary.
The program with Keynote Speech, delivered by Shou-chien SHIH,
the Director of National Palace Museum, and two Plenary Sessions
and nineteen Parallel Sessions generates an enormous momentum
that carries over into the four-day Annual Conference and
Joint meetings. The most impressive part of this conference
was the diverse topics related to digitization of Libraries,
Museums, GIS and the other collections, which not only bring
enthusiastic responses, discussion and input but also reflects
the main theme of this conference "Digital Libraries
and Digital Collections in the Global Community".
When the finalized electronic proceeding, which contains the
presentation materials and full papers, is ready, it will
be made available on the http://www.PNCLink.org, and the same
will also be sent to all participants. The additional information
on the conference, including photos of speakers and various
events, could be found at http://www.PNClink.org. Any comments
about the CD-ROM Proceedings, please contact Ms. Emma Liao
at emma@ccweb.sinica.edu.tw or call +886-2-2789-9380.
PNC 2006 Annual Conference in Conjunction with PRDLA and ECAI, held in Seoul National University from August 16~18, has come to the end of three days of intensive and fruitful sessions on a variety of topics concerning digital libraries, digital collections and GIS related issues. PNC would like to take this opportunity to extend our heartfelt appreciation to all speakers for their hard work and to all participations for their enthusiastic participation since the first day of the meeting. With all speakers’ contribution, all participants gained great insights and shared valuable experiences with one another.
PNC would like to especially thank the local host, Seoul National University, for making the conference possible and complete PNC "Pacific" circle. This is what makes us a “neighborhood”: our shared pursuit of the possible. Our neighborhood is defined less by the spatial contiguity than by our belief in a symbiotic relationship between the academic and technical research communities.
This year PNC had one keynote speech delivered by Prof. Ching-chun Hsieh, Chair Professor, Ming Chuan University, Taiwan, and 16 sessions in total. The session formats consisted of oral presentations and poster demonstrations covering various domains such as: Digital Archives and Collections (scientific and cultural), Digital Museums, Digital Preservation, Digitalization Projects, Cultural Atlases, e-Publishing, e-Culture, e-Science Application, Humanity e-Science and Grid Technology, Geospatial Information System (GIS), Humanity GIS and Korean Culture. There are over 200 participants from 12 different countries to join this annual conference.
We would like to keep the great experiences this year and wish to make much progress every year for bringing PNC members the updated information about technologies applied to humanities and information exchanges.
At the end, PNC sincerely invite your participation to PNC 2007 in UC Berkeley on October 18-20. All conference-related information and photos will be posted on PNC web http://www.PNCLink.org. We are looking forward to seeing you next year!
The
PNC and ECAI 2007 Annual Conference and Joint Meetings in UC
Berkeley were successfully held after a 3-day conference from
18th October to 20th October, 2007. The conference included
2 plenary sessions with keynote speeches, 17 concurrent sessions
and a Google Earth Workshop. There were 132 participants and
60 speakers, coming from Canada, China, England, Germany, Japan,
Netherlands, Singapore, South Korea, Swiss, Taiwan, Thailand,
and the USA.
The
keynote speeches were delivered by Dr. Clifford Lynch, the
Director of Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), and
Mr. David Rumsey, the President of David Rumsey Map Collection.
Both speeches offered the conference participants useful information
about current trends in IT and GIS in the humanities. Dr.
Lynch surveyed current technical and economic trends that
are driving convergence among traditional and new cultural
memory organizations. He also discussed cultural stewardship
for the digital age. Mr. Rumsey also discussed this topic
using examples from the evolution of his own map collection,
and the tools he has used and will use to disseminate the
collection on the Internet, including his recent collaborations
with Google Earth and Second Life in opening venues for new
ways to interact with historical maps. For details about all
speakers' presentations, please visit http://pnclink.org/annual/annual2007/2007annual.htm
The Pacific
Neighborhood Consortium is endeavoring to bring together the
cutting edge of technological research for content analysis
organization, visualization, discovery, and access. Due to
support from the data holders and the digital project leaders
at the conference, we were able to conduct the presentations
online to PNC members. We sincerely thank all for attending
this conference and making it a success. We look forward to
your support in PNC 2008.¡@
After
one-year preparations and three days of intense activities under
a mutual sharing atmosphere, the GIS-IDEAS, PNC and ECAI 2008
Joint International Conferences held in Ta Quang Buu Library,
Hanoi University of Technology, Ha Noi, Vietnam from December
4th to 6th, 2008 had come to a successful conclusion.
The theme
of this year’s conference is: Information Technology for
a Creative and Sustainable Humanosphere. There are 211 participants
coming from Algeria, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Cambodia,
China, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal,
Russia, Spain, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States, Viet
Nam to share their researches and knowledge focusing on the
way Information and Communication Technology can influence
our efforts to protect and sustain various aspects of our
heritage and environment.
There
are 2 Keynotes Session this year. Academician Der-Tsai Lee
from Academia Sinica gave a speech titled “ TELDAP, Looking
to the Future” to present the Taiwan e-Learning and Digital
Archives Program (TELDAP) major achievements and the derived
values from cultural, academic, socio-economic and educational
perspectives; Prof. Lewis R. Lancaster from ECAI gave a speech
titled “Event Markup: A Potential Revolution for Metadata”
to introduce a new level of research that allow the information
of Who When Where to be combined with all available data about
the fourth “W” i.e. What..
A diverse
range of topics spreading among 20 Concurrent Sessions included
Area Informatics: Application of Spatiotemporal Tools to Analyze
Data, Bridge the Digital Divide, Computer Technology in Chinese
e-Learning Instructions of Applications, Context Composition
for Cultural Data, Cooperation and Digitization of Libraries
in Taiwan and Vietnam on Southeast Asia Collections, Creation
and Organization of Local Cultural Atlases, Creation and Organization
of Local Cultural Atlases, Cultural Atlases: Monuments and
Texts, Data Management of Buddhist Texts, Digital Gazetteer
and Calendar, Digitization and Information Integration of
Biological Collections, Dynamic Mapping, Ensuring Success:
Digitization Standards and Process, GIS Explorations in the
History of Japan: Humanities GIS, GIS Technology Application
in Environment Disaster, Humanities GIS and Analysis, Strategies
for the Development of Superior Digital Archives Cultural
Diversity, Legal Framework and Licensing Mechanism, The Integrated
Buddhist Archives Network (IBA-net), The Trends and Future
of e-Learning with the Web 2.0 Concept, The Trends and Future
of e-Learning with the Web 2.0 Concept, Urban Development
in Social and Historical Context, What’s Next to Digitizing;
as well as the 2008 series of TELearn workshops.
In the end, PNC wish to once again thank each individual and
all for making this conference a fruitful one. The venue and
the date of PNC 2009 Annual Conference will be announced on
the PNC webpage soon when it’s scheduled. PNC wish you all
a Happy New year!¡@
Video
VN-News http://www.pnclink.org/2008vnnews.htm
(The Video VN-News displays the opening ceremony which was
broadcasted in the Viet Nam TV News on December 4, 2008)
Annual Conference 2009
PNC 2009 Annual Conference and Joint Meetings held in Academia Sinica, Taipei from Oct.6 to 8 have successfully finished. There were 248 participants coming from 22 countries, including Algeria, Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, UK, United States and Viet Nam. PNC would like to take this opportunity to deliver its sincere appreciation to all participants’ contribution.
The main theme of PNC 2009 is “Social Computing”. Participants from different background came to PNC 2009 to discuss how the intersection of social behavior and computations impact our daily life, and share their researches and knowledge in the field of e-Resource, Digital Archives as Elements of Social Software, ECAI Cultural Atlases, Digital Content Context, Biodiversity Conservation, Humanities GIS, GIS for Saving Lives, Applications of e-Learning and Digital Archives in the Fields of Academia, Education, Society and Culture, Social Computing and Its Applications, Museum & Information Technology, Unfolding e-Culture in Everyday Life, and New Studies and Research Perspectives on Ancient China.
This year PNC had several special extended tracks such as e-Resource and Digital Repositories, Humanities GIS in Japan and Austronesian Dispersal.
This year PNC Keynote Speech was given by Prof. Stephen Griffin, National Science Foundation focusing on the topic of “Recovering the Past through Computation - New Techniques for Cultural Heritage Informatics”. The Joint Opening Keynote Speeches were giving by 5 distinguished speakers. Dr. Ts’ui Jung Liu from Academia Sinica delivered the first keynote speech on the impacts that TELDAP and other digital initiatives in Academia Sinica have made on humanities. Second Keynote speech was given by Dr. Pierre-Yves Manguin from EFEO to address the topic of Khmer Heritage Research and Documentation at the EFEO: Building a Digitised Corpus of Archaeological and Epigraphical Data. Dr. Chuen-Tsai Sun from TELearn gave a speech on “Game-Native Teachers’ Attitude toward Digital Gaming in School”. Regarding the development of GIS, Dr. Edward Ayers from University of Richmond gave the speech on “Space, Place and Time: Mapping Historical Changes”. The fifth speech was given by Dr. Timothy Tangherlini from UCLA to discuss the topic of “Maps and Networks”.
PNC wish to once again thank each individual and all for making this conference a fruitful one. For all the presentation and keynote speech videos, please refer to http://www.pnclink.org/pnc2009/english/program.html for more information.
The venue and the date of PNC 2010 Annual Conference will be announced on the PNC webpage soon. We look forward to seeing all of you in 2010!
PNC 2010 Annual Conference and Joint Meetings held in City University of Hong Kong from December 1 to 3 have come to the end successfully. There were 251 participants coming from 18 countries, including Australia, Cambodia, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Philippines, Russian Federation, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. PNC would like to take this opportunity to extend our sincere appreciation to all participants’ contributions.
The main theme of this year's conference is “From Digital Content to Knowledge Asset”. 6 Keynote Speeches were delivered by: Prof. Yunhe Pan, Chinese Academy of Engineering, who gave a talk entitled “Development and Trends of the Digital Library”; Prof. Fan-Sen Wang from Academia Sinica, who introduced Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program and cultural diversity; Prof. M. S. Vijay Kumar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who gave a lecture entitled “The Open Influence: Towards an Ecology of Abundance”; Dr. Sarah Kenderdine, City University of Hong Kong, who substituted Prof. Jeffrey Shaw to present the speech entitled “Immersive Strategies for the Embodiment of Culture and Heritage”; Prof. Tak-Wai Chan, National Central University of Taiwan, who focused on the topic of “A Few Problems of Digital Learning”; and Mr. She Mang, Education Bureau of Hong Kong, who addressed e-Learning issues from a Hong Kong perspective.
In addition, a diverse range of topics spreading among 21 Concurrent Sessions included: The Power of Digitalized Knowledge, Managing Knowledge Assets, E-learning Strategies & Practice, Knowledge Upon Social Media, Academic Assessment Strategies for E-Portfolios, Biodiversity Database Integration, Korean Classic Collection and its Content Management, Climate Change Knowledge Assets, Visualization and Virtual Systems in Digital Humanities, Cultivating Cultural Heritage with Information Technology, Lexical Semantics and Multilingual Thesaurus Construction, E-Learning, Meta-Library, Social Computing and Its Application, E-book Archiving, Application of Spatio-temporal Methods to the Humanities, Management and Service of Knowledge Assets, and Access to Information and Public Licenses in the Digital Environment.
In the end of the closing ceremony, 6 poster winners were presented with the awards from University Librarian Storey Colin, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Prof. John Leman from University of Alaska Fairbanks, on behalf of PNC, gave a closing remark bringing up our future issues about how to deal with the abundance of knowledge and access to knowledge. You could find his remarks here.
PNC wish to once again thank each individual and all for making this conference a fruitful one! PNC 2011 Annual Conference will happen in Bangkok, Thailand and the exact date will be announced on the PNC webpage soon. We look forward to seeing all of you in 2011!
PNC 2011 Annual Conference and Joint Meetings held in Chulalongkorn University in Thailand from October 19 to 21 was concluded successfully. The conference has brought diverse group of 192 participants together to share their ideas and exchange information from 15 countries: China, France, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Russian Federation, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, United States and Vietnam.
During the conference, Thailand has encountered the most devastating flood in 50 years. The flood, which threatened the edge of Bangkok, also made it more difficult to host the conference. However, regardless the disaster, the participants and local staffs whose houses were under the threat of the flood still made it to the venue in Bangkok. PNC would like to take this opportunity to extend our sincere appreciation to all participants and staffs’ contributions. The conference wouldn’t come to an end successfully without the support from all participants and the local collaborators, Chulalongkorn University, Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI), Hydro and Agro Informatics Institute (HAII) and National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC).
The main theme of the conference this year, “Managing Climate Change: From Science to Digital Humanities and Sustainability,” looks into climate change challenge from the perspective of potential contributions from the fields of information technology and digital humanities. The following inspiring Keynote Speeches were delivered:
“Climate Changes and Water Resources in Taiwan History” by Dr. Ts’ui-jung Liu from Academia Sinica
“Climate Change and Urban Flood Management” by Dr. Zoran Vojinovic, UNESCO-IHE, Netherlands
“Contemporary Adaptation among Taiwanese Austronesian Peoples” by Dr. Shu-min Huang from Academia Sinica
“Interdecadal Variability of East Asian Summer Monsoon and Precipitation” by Dr. Meigen Zhang from Chinese Academy of Sciences
"Traditional agriculture: Adaptation to Climate Change—Tanking Hani Rice Terraces System as an Example" by Dr. Qingwen Min from Chinese Academy of Sciences
"CyberInfrastructure for Service-oriented Geospatial Science and Technology"by Dr. Jianya Gong from Wuhan University
Another important part of the conference, poster competition, also gathered splendid works from groups representing different countries. In closing ceremony, the six outstanding poster competition winners were awarded by Dr. Dongfang Shao, our PNC steering committee member from Stanford University. Congratulations to our winners! The list of the winners and their works can be found here.
Our excellent speakers from different countries have brought innovative insights into different sessions. We hope the conference can shed lights on the future solutions for problems that came along with climate change. If you are interested in PNC 2011 presentation materials and keynote speech videos, please refer to http://www.pnclink.org/pnc2011/english/program.html.
The disastrous flood in Thailand has brought significant losses. At this very moment, PNC has donated all registration fee received this year USD $ 4000 dollars in total to Princess Pa Foundation in Thailand as flood relief. We sincerely hope that with our blessings and support from all over the world, the water will recedes quickly and Thailand could recover soon from the damage. PNC wish to once again thank each individual and all for making our 2011 PNC conference exceptional and significant. Next year, PNC 2012 Annual Conference will take place in University of California at Berkeley in United States. Further information will be announced on our PNC website, and we look forward to seeing all of you again in 2012!
