[Hum-DIS] Cultural Atlas Conference - correction!

[Maggie Exon]

I am very sorry that a mistake crept into the URL in this message.  I
have repeated it below with the correct link.

Again apologies

Maggie


Dear IS student (at least those in Perth)

Curtin is hosting an interesting conference which you are encouraged to
come to.  It is free for students except for a small payment for food.
See below and ask any of the IS staff if you need to know more.

Maggie

Associate Professor Maggie Exon;
Department of Media and Information;
Faculty of Humanities;
Curtin University of Technology;
PO Box U1987, Perth, WA 6845; +61 8 9266 7149; fax +61 8 9266 3051;
CRICOS Provider Code 00301J



An exciting event taking place right here at Curtin

Local space; global connections: visualising cultural data through space
and time:
The 4th Congress of Cultural Atlases 

Curtin students are welcomed to this inter-disciplinary conference to be
held here at Curtin.

Perth is to welcome at the end of April a visit from members of the
central team of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI), based
at the University of California Berkeley. We are therefore holding a
two-day conference, followed by a workshop to explore all aspects of the
mapping of cultural data and associated issues to do with the management
and visualisation of material held in large databases, including images,
multimedia objects and digital publications of all kinds.

The conference will be held on 22-24 April 2008 during the week free in
the new lecture theatres next to the Elizabeth Jolley lecture theatre.
The conference is free to students except for a small charge of $35 ($20
per day) to cover the costs of morning and afternoon teas and lunches. 

What is this conference all about?

Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning Systems (GPS)
and global imaging resources such as Google Earth have made the use of
digital mapping and finding your position on the earth familiar to many
people.  Less well known are the possibilities these technologies offer
for finding, visualising and analysing cultural and historical
information.  The congress will explore how you can use GIS and other
technologies to help people see historical and cultural evidence in new
and enlightening ways.  Diverse groups such as local and family
historians, archaeologists, librarians, archivists and museum curators,
as well as academics from many disciplines are already producing
innovative work which they will present to inspire and excite the
congress audience.  This will be a chance to see how you could make more
of your data both for yourself and others using it.

Previous ECAI conferences have had presentations on subjects as diverse
as the meaning of sacred space in Hinduism, the archaeology of the mound
cultures of central North America, trade along the Silk Road, the family
and local connections of members of the Chinese elite and the
development of Sydney Harbour.  The cultural atlas movement is also
heavily involved in the development of technologies to support spatial
analysis including helping software developers such as ESRI to adapt
their products to the needs of users in the Humanities and Social
sciences.

The third day of the conference will consist of workshops on how to use
resources such as Google Earth as a basis on which to build
visualisations of cultural data.  These workshops will aim to get you
started, so bring your data and let us help you begin.

Students are welcome to present a paper or a poster session if they are
involved in projects which are relevant to this conference.  

Please contact me if you need any more information.

Maggie Exon


The conference web site is at 
http://cedar.humanities.curtin.edu.au/conferences/cca4/

To learn more about the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative and
cultural atlases in general, visit the web site at:
http://www.ecai.org/





  


Associate Professor Maggie Exon;
Courses Management;
Office of Teaching and Learning;
Curtin University of Technology;
PO Box U1987, Perth, WA 6845; +61 8 9266 7149; fax +61 8 9266 3051;
CRICOS Provider Code 00301J (WA) 02637B (NSW)