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!