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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.
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