PNC 2006 Annual Conference in Conjunction with PRDLA and ECAI, held in Seoul National University from August 16~18, has come to the end of three days of intensive and fruitful sessions on a variety of topics concerning digital libraries, digital collections and GIS related issues. PNC would like to take this opportunity to extend our heartfelt appreciation to all speakers for their hard work and to all participations for their enthusiastic participation since the first day of the meeting. With all speakers’ contribution, all participants gained great insights and shared valuable experiences with one another.

PNC would like to especially thank the local host, Seoul National University, for making the conference possible and complete PNC "Pacific" circle. This is what makes us a “neighborhood”: our shared pursuit of the possible. Our neighborhood is defined less by the spatial contiguity than by our belief in a symbiotic relationship between the academic and technical research communities.

This year PNC had one keynote speech delivered by Prof. Ching-chun Hsieh, Chair Professor, Ming Chuan University, Taiwan, and 16 sessions in total. The session formats consisted of oral presentations and poster demonstrations covering various domains such as: Digital Archives and Collections (scientific and cultural), Digital Museums, Digital Preservation, Digitalization Projects, Cultural Atlases, e-Publishing, e-Culture, e-Science Application, Humanity e-Science and Grid Technology, Geospatial Information System (GIS), Humanity GIS and Korean Culture. There are over 200 participants from 12 different countries to join this annual conference.

We would like to keep the great experiences this year and wish to make much progress every year for bringing PNC members the updated information about technologies applied to humanities and information exchanges.

At the end, PNC sincerely invite your participation to PNC 2007 in UC Berkeley on October 18-20. All conference-related information and photos will be posted on PNC web http://www.PNCLink.org. We are looking forward to seeing you next year!