PNC 2002 Annual Conference and Joint Meetings held in Osaka City University from September 20~23 have successfully finished. More than three hundred participants from over 14 countries came together to share their researches and knowledge in the field of Internet, GIS, Metadata, Digital Archive, e-Learning, e-Resource, Digital Museum and other technical problems.

The program with Keynote Speech, six Plenary Sessions and twenty-nine Parallel Sessions generated an enormous momentum that carried over into the four-day Annual Conference and Joint meetings. The most impressive part of this conference was the diverse topics related to digitization of cultural resources, the collection, new integrated architecture, change of working process, sharing and dissemination data had paved paradigm of collaboration, which exactly reflect the main theme of this conference "Collaboration in the Digital Age".

An electronic Proceedings, which contains the presentation materials and full papers, will be made on a CD-ROM and sent to all participants by the end of December. The additional information on the conference, including photos of speakers and various events, could be found at http://www.pnclink.org. Any comments about the CD-ROM Proceedings, please contact Ms. Emma Liao at emma@ccweb.sinica.edu.tw or call 886-2-2789-9380.