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<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">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.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Maggie</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Associate Professor Maggie Exon;</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Department of Media and Information;</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Faculty of Humanities;</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Curtin University of Technology;</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">PO Box U1987, Perth, WA 6845; +61 8 9266 7149; fax +61 8 9266 3051;</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">CRICOS Provider Code 00301J</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">An exciting event taking place right here at Curtin</FONT></B></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><I><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Local space; global connections: visualising cultural data through space and time:</FONT></I></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">The 4th Congress of Cultural Atlases </FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Curtin students are welcomed to this inter-disciplinary conference to be held here at Curtin.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">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.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">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. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">What is this conference all about?</FONT></B></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">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.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">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.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">The third day of the conference will consist of workshops on how to use resources such as</FONT><I> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Google Earth</FONT></I> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">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.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Students are welcome to present a paper or a poster session if they are involved in projects which are relevant to this conference. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Please contact me if you need any more information.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Maggie Exon</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">The conference web site is at </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><A HREF="http://cedar.humanities.curtin.edu.au/conferences/cac4/"><SPAN LANG="en-au"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">http://cedar.humanities.curtin.edu.au/conferences/cac4/</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">To learn more about the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative and cultural atlases in general, visit the web site at:</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><A HREF="http://www.ecai.org/"><SPAN LANG="en-au"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">http://www.ecai.org/</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN>
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