I went to the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative conference at the
University of Sydney last week. For those who don’t know about ECAI, I have
enclosed a brief description.
www.ecai.org
The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative is a time and placed based
collaborative project led by UC Berkeley and to a lesser extent,
Archaeology at the university of Sydney. ECAI is a GIS based project that
plans to build a global atlas that will link projects from around the world
through time/place interfaces. At the core of ECAI’s innovations are the
ECAI Information Technology Architecture and its central unifying feature,
the ECAI Metadata Clearinghouse. The Metadata Clearing house will allow
data-sets to be re-purposed on other web-based projects on a global scale.
http://www.timemap.net/
The Time-map project is an initiative from Sydney Uni’s Archaeology
Computing Lab and is an attempt to map cultural data through a time-based
GIS interface. One of the time-map projects is the attempt to map the
historical growth of Sydney through digitising all the known historical
maps of the period and layering them with historical images.
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