GIS-IDEAS April 2004

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[Gisideas] GIS-IDEAS 2004 Abstracts due
by Venkatesh Raghavan 05 May '04

05 May '04

Dear All, With a little over a month left for the deadline for submission of abstracts (30 April, 2004) for GIS-IDEAS 2004, I take this oppurtunity to remind the subscribers of this list to kindly submit their abstracts through the symposium web-page (http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/gisideas04/). The conference is scheduled to be held at Hanoi University of Science, Vietnam from 16-18 September 2004. Details are available on the conference web-site. Looking forward to seeing many Geoinformatics researcher and practitioners at the Symposium and hoping that the meeting would be a big success. Would also like to request you all to pass on the info about the GIS-IDEAS 2004 through appropriate means that may available to you. Kind regards Raghavan ------------- Dr. Venkatesh Raghavan GIS-IDEAS 2004 Co-cordinator

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[Gisideas] EXPERT MEETING AT UN AIMS TO ENCOURAGE MORE ACCURATE USE OF PLACE NAMES
by Vern Weitzel 22 Apr '04

22 Apr '04

EXPERT MEETING AT UN AIMS TO ENCOURAGE MORE ACCURATE USE OF PLACE NAMES New York, Apr 21 2004 8:57AM Some 150 experts, representing 22 linguistic or geographical divisions around the world, gathered today at United Nations Headquarters in New York to encourage the development of more consistency and accuracy in the use of place names, especially on maps and in gazetteers. The <"http://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/ungegn.htm">UN Group of Experts on Geographical Names will meet for 10 days, during which they are expected to discuss and propose steps to standardize written forms of geographical names. This will include measures on how to Romanize place names being converted from languages that use non-Roman script. William De Vries, Officer-in-Charge of the UN Statistics Division, said the last conference of experts on the issue, held in 2002 in Berlin, agreed to a set of recommendations that stressed that standardized place names form ï¿½part of a nationï¿½s cultural and historical heritage.ï¿½ Mr. De Vries said consistent geographical names, especially when disseminated widely, helped the development of cartography, urban and regional planning, peacekeeping, tourism and commerce. They also strengthened the preservation of cultural heritage. In a statement, the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) said consistent and accurate place names promote more effective communication worldwide. 2004-04-20 00:00:00.000 ________________ For more details go to UN News Centre at http://www.un.org/news

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[Gisideas] CFP: VR and Cultural Landscapes
by Vern Weitzel 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

Subject: CFP: VR and Cultural Landscapes Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 09:19:55 +0800 From: H-SEASIA Editor <h_seasia(a)NUS.EDU.SG> To: H-SEASIA(a)H-NET.MSU.EDU Call for Proposals: "Beyond GIS: Mindscapes, VR and Cultural Landscapes" Workshop and symposium May 9, 2004, 9 am - 5 pm Hearst Mining Building, University of California, Berkeley Chair: Maurizio Forte, CNR-ITABC e-mail: Maurizio.forte(a)itabc.cnr.it web: www.itabc.cnr.it/VHLab The landscape is a dynamic context of different transformations intelligible through the time: cultural, historic, political, social, geomorphologic, geographic, anthropological. The study and analysis of the archaeological and cultural landscape involve a multidisciplinary approach in order to reconstruct cultures, paleo-environments, mental maps (mindscapes), geomorphology, and settlements in diachronic way. Therefore the diachronic and dynamic reconstruction of the landscape needs to implement different methods and advanced digital technologies: GIS (Geographical Information Systrem), remote sensing, virtual reality, predictive modelling, and multimedia applications. The main goal of the workshop is to start a multidisciplinary discussion of the digital methods of analysis and 3D representation for the reconstruction of the cultural and archaeological landscapes, from both epistemological and technological perspectives. The complexity of these kinds of contexts tests the most advanced digital technologies in the effort to understand cultural identities, issues and differences through time. The integrated use of GIS, remote sensing, virtual reality and multimedia applications is a fundamental approach for understanding the past and the present and, in the case of this workshop, for interpreting cognitive models of the landscape. The interpretation or reconstruction of previous cognition is not a simple process. Knowledge is cognitively processed information, and is both represented and the basis of action. Cognitive archaeology, the study of past ways of thought as inferred from material remains, still presents so many challenges to the practitioner that it seems if not a novel, at any rate, an uncertain endeavour. One goal is to show that people had preferences independent of economic necessity. A second goal is to demonstrate how ideals may be altered or transformed by reality into an amalgam. Settlements and housing location are the results of a series of personal and cultural decisions. The ideal pattern of settlement, in the mind of the ancient people, may be tempered, adjusted and transformed by topographic reality. These ideal forms are grounded in such economic realities as trade and transport, or established upon such cultural realities as heritage, aesthetic norms, or social and religious rules. As archaeologists, one of our ultimate goals is to extract the cultural ideals from the complicated reality in the complex patterns of prehistoric material remains. The interpretation and the knowledge of archaeological landscape is the result of numerous compromises between ideal and real. Fundamental to archaeology is the interpretation of human behaviour over space and time. Increasingly, spatial aspects of past human activity have been discussed through the theories and methodologies that Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have brought to the subject. GIS is typically used to provide a series of hypothetical scenarios of, and alternative perspectives on, the spatial inter-relationships that exist between people and their environments. Archaeological research has therefore emphasised the need for an integration of anthropological, cultural and social values within ecological variables. Especially the agency debate has re-emphasised the importance of human volition within the creation of an archaeological landscape. Human action is influenced by how groups perceive their worlds and, indirectly and only in part, structured by the accommodation of affordances created by the dynamic interplay between humans and their animate and inanimate surroundings. But human landscapes are really generated through unique human action and interpretation, using both environmental characteristics and socio-cultural understandings. Human social and material interaction is fuelled by habitus and agency. Human agency, representing unique viewpoints based on material culture and landscape (structure) and unique history (narrative), is crucial for human choice and action. It is therefore argued that it is the effects of human agency that structure landscapes and reveal how dynamic surroundings are interrogated and interpreted. Topics: - Remote Sensed Archaeological data and 3D visualization; - 3D GIS in archaeology: tools and software; - Cybernetics and cultural landscapes - Virtual museums and territory - Digital Ecosystems - Artscapes, taskscapes, mindscapes - Virtual Reality Systems and Visual Geographic Information; - 3D databases in Archaeology; - VR devices for the advanced visualization of spatial data; - Virtual Reconstructions of Archaeological Landscapes; - Multilayered analyses of Spatial Data; - DGPS and archaeological surveys for monitoring and reconstructing - 3D archaeological landscapes; - 3D GIS and Geophysics; - 3D Web Interfaces for Visualizing GIS archaeological data; - 3D Virtual Libraries of Georeferenced Cultural Data; - Archaeological Spatial Analyses and 3D Visualization; - Open Gl Technologies in Archaeological VR GIS; - Epistemology of VR GIS in Archaeology; - VR GIS, Communication and Cultural Tourism. This workshop is a part of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative Congress, May 7-10, 2004.

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[Gisideas] Announcing H-ECAI: H-Net Network on the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
by Vern Weitzel 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

Subject: Announcing H-ECAI: H-Net Network on the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 09:10:25 +0800 From: H-SEASIA Editor <h_seasia(a)NUS.EDU.SG> To: H-SEASIA(a)H-NET.MSU.EDU ANNOUNCING H-ECAI: H-Net Network on the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative Sponsored by H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online and The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative ABOUT H-ECAI H-ECAI is a forum for exchanging news, announcements, and questions about ECAI and its technologies. We also welcome from anyone with an interest in cultural heritage computing, historical GIS, and the power of time and place for sharing and integrating information about culture and history. Like all H-Net lists, H-ECAI is moderated to edit out material that, in the editors' opinion, is not germane to the list, involves technical matters (such as subscription management requests), is inflammatory, or violates evolving, yet common, standards of Internet etiquette. H-Net's procedure for resolving disputes over list editorial practices is Article II, Section 2.20 of our bylaws, located at: http://www.h-net.org/about/by-laws.html Logs and more information can also be found at the H-Net Web Site, located at: http://www.h-net.org/~ecai/ To join H-ECAI, please send a message from the account where you wish to receive mail, to: listserv(a)h-net.msu.edu (with no signatures or styled text, word wrap off for long lines) and only this text: sub h-ECAI firstname lastname, institution Example: sub h-ECAI Leslie Jones, Pacific State U Alternatively, you may go to http://www.h-net.org/lists/subscribe.cgi to perform the same function as noted above. Follow the instructions you receive by return mail. If you have questions or experience difficulties in attempting to subscribe, please send a message to: help(a)mail.h-net.msu.edu H-Net is an international network of scholars in the humanities and social sciences that creates and coordinates electronic networks, using a variety of media, and with a common objective of advancing humanities and social science teaching and research. H-Net was created to provide a positive, supportive, equalitarian environment for the friendly exchange of ideas and scholarly resources, and is hosted by Michigan State University. For more information about H-Net, write to H-Net(a)H-net.msu.edu, or point your web browser to: http://www.h-net.org Caverlee Cary Geographic Information Science Center 412 Wurster Hall University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720 TEL: (510) 642-8737 FAX: (510) 643-3412 URL: gisc.berkeley.edu

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