More About PNC

Goal

• Promote public availability of information resources. Facilitate coordination of international scholarly activities of PNC members.

• Stimulate, design, coordinate, and participate in international interdisciplinary programs.

• Communicate information about academic progress and its impact on society.

• Involve active scholars.

Establishment

• Collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley, on a digital gazetteer project enabling extraction of spatial information from textual materials

• Collaboration with Academic Sinica, ROC, on a major metadata development project

• Consultation and collaboration with Pacific Rim countries on network infrastructure development

• Support research projects utilizing advanced GIS, metadata standards development, and networking technology at Academia Sinica, ROC.

• Organize workshops addressing technology training needs.

• Organize an Annual Conference and seminars addressing current research agendas.

Alliance

• Electronic Buddhist Text Initiative (EBTI)
• Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI)
• Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance (PRDLA)