Toward a successful relationship between PNC and APAN-eCulture

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Toward a successful relationship between PNC and
APAN-eCulture

• PNC 2005 Annual Conference in Conjunction with
  PRDLA, ECAIOctober 31, 2005 November 3,
  2005University of Hawaii at Manoa

Yoshinori SATO, Takaharu KAMEOKA Mie University
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What is APAN-eCulture?

• What is APAN (Asia Pacific Advanced Network)?
• A non-profit international consortium established
  in June 1997
• Providing an advanced networking environment for
  the research and education communities in the
  Asia-Pacific region
• Promoting global collaboration
• ?http//www.apan.net/

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The objectives of APAN

• (a) to coordinate and promote network technology
  developments and to advance network-based
  applications and services
• (b) to coordinate the development of an advanced
  networking environment for research and education
  communities in the Asia-Pacific region and
• (c) to encourage and promote global cooperation
  to achieve the above.

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The Context of APAN-eCulture

• The development of ICT (Information and
  Communication Technology)
• ? Impossible to discuss anything without
  mentioning and/or using ICT
• ? ICT is not for professionals, but for everyone

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The Context of APAN-eCulture (Continued)

• APAN is a network infrastructure
• Powerful groups in e-Science and Natural
  Resources
• Strong agricultural collaboration
• Common concerns
• too much emphasis on technology?
• Revalidating cultural issues

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Agriculture
Digital Asia
Disaster Prevention
Natural Resources Workshop
Extraction of Factors related to Culture
eCulture
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The Mission of eCulture

• To make the research and education more active in
  Asia-Pacific region through applying ICT to all
  disciplines including Humanities and Social
  Sciences, and to provide the fruitful outcome to
  the societies at large

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The Goals of the APAN-eCulture

• To pursue various issues on culture taking full
  advantage of ICT through active partnership
• Information-Sharing
• information on the practical methods, published
  in academic conferences etc.
• best practices and/or lessons learned among
  members
• Discussions to
• aggregate e-resources scattered among member
  countries
• Provision of the place
• for collaboration in research or project

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Objectives (1)

• Technological Issues
• Sharing information about new technologies to
  visualize a cultural phenomenon spatially and/or
  chronologically, e.g. GIS applications
• Sharing Experiences providing case studies which
  use the above-mentioned technologies
• Communication with other members about
  e-resources (systems) scattered among member
  countries, and about aggregation methods
  including interoperability and meta-data, etc.

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Objectives (2)

• Cultural Issues
• Encouraging academics in Humanities and Social
  Sciences to make proposals for taking full
  advantage of ICT
• Information Sharing about the social changes in
  member countries along with the development of
  network infrastructure e.g. Sub-Culture peculiar
  on the Net
• Discussions on the impact of globalization and
  localization.
• Exploring the possibility of cultural database in
  Asia-Pacific region

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Past Meetings

• eCulture BOF in 18th APAN meeting
• 1100 - 1230, 5 July, 2004 in Cairns, Australia
• eCulture Workshop in 19th APAN meeting
• 1400 - 1730, 26 January, 2005 in Bangkok,
  Thailand
• eCulture Workshop in 20th APAN meeting
• 1100 - 1730, 24 August, 2005 in Taipei, Taiwan

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Presentations in Cairns Meeting

• Introduction of Mie University, Takaharu
  Kameoka.
• The new Center for International Exchange at Mie
  University, Makiko Hanami.
• Two Features of Library, Mie University, JAPAN,
  Osamu Inoue.
• The challenges of the Information Management in
  Farm Businesses, Tomohiro Uchiyama.
• Encountering of Cultures, Masao Ishii.
• Strategy against Environmental Problems in East
  Asia for Promoting e-Culture -Viewpoint of Human
  Dimensions, Hye-Sook Park.
• Economy and Society in Southeast Asia, Shigeo
  Arai.
• VR model for Historical Site Study - What
  Mahatat, Ayudhara, THAILAND, Piyawut Srichaikul.
• DancingQ and Korea on the Net, Dae Young KIM.

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Presentations in Bangkok Meeting

• Session 1. - Viewpoint of Human Dimensions
• Short presentation Introduction of eCulture in
  APAN, Takaharu Kameoka.
• Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC)
  representative presentation, John A. Lehman,
  University of Alaska Fairbanks.
• Digital Archives and Historical GIS in Vietnam
  and Japan, Mamoru Shibayama, Center for
  Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University.
• A brainstorm on developmentally oriented
  cultural, historical, and eco- e-tourism, David
  Hastings, UN-ESCAP.
• E-culture webserver implementation for
  historical research in Southeast Asia, Surat
  Lertlum, AIT and CCRMA.
• The Isan travels of Etienne Aymonier Developing
  a web-accessible database on life and culture in
  Northeast Thailand, Leedom Lefferts, Professor
  Emeritus of Anthropology, Drew University.
• An e-culture approach for museums Defining the
  spatial dimension in networked cultural and
  environmental data, Caverlee Cary, GIS Center,
  UC Berkeley.

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Presentations in Bangkok Meeting

• Session 2. - Culture and ICT
• The Information Continuum and the Making of
  E-Culture, Don Schauder, Monash University.
• Digital Archive of Cultural Heritages, Atsushi
  Nakazawa (Osaka University), Katsushi Ikeuchi,
  Kiminori Hasegawa, Jun Takamatsu, Takeshi Oishi
  (University of Tokyo).
• The Role of Advanced Network in Intercultural
  Communication Issues and Challenges, Faridah
  Noor Mohd. Noor, University of Malaya.
• Reki-Show Authoring Tools an approach to
  visualization of temporal-spatial database,
  Makoto Hanashima (Institute for Areal Studies),
  Ken-ichi Tomobe, Chun-Lin Kuo (Keio University).
• E-culture activities in Korea, Sanggyun Kim
  (ANF Secretariat), Dae Young Kim (Chungnam Univ.)
• The Field Server (the Sensor Net) Application to
  Information, Environmental Education and
  International Communication with eCulture
  Scheme, Wataru Yaguchi, (Elab-Experience Ltd.),
  et al.

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Presentations in Taipei Meeting

• Session 1 - Technology oriented
• The Technologies for Digital Content that
  Enliven Local Community,Hiroshi Ono (Contents,
  Inc.), Yoshinori Sato (Mie University)
• E-Museum Development Progress in Thailand Case
  Study of Wat Makutkasattriyaram, Chularat
  Tanprasert, Rachabodin Suwannacunti, Piyawut
  Srichaikul, (Computing Research and Development
  Division (RDC), National Electronics and Computer
  Technology Center (NECTEC), National Science and
  Technology Development Agency (NSTDA).
• Near Infrared Digital Images of Historical
  Resources of the Nara Region, Katsuya Watari
  Saori Donkai (The Nara Women's University)
• A Polymorphic Data Visualization for
  Spatiotemporal Database,Makoto Hanashima
  (Institute for Area Studies)
• Communication in eCulture, Shih-Chieh Li
  (National Digital Archives Program)

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Presentations in Taipei Meeting

• Session 2 - Social Science/ Humanities oriented
• Research on Digital Heritage Exchange (DHX),
  Yong-Moo Kwon, Heedong Ko, Jinwook Kim (Korea
  Institute of Science Technology)
• Loess Plateau Project in China. Remote
  Presentation Ayumu Yasutomi (Tokyo University),
  Yoko Fukao (Osaka University of Foreign Studies),
  Juncai Ma, Shoji Hatano (Chinese Academy of
  Sciences), Kazunari Yokoyama (Hokkaido
  Agriculture Research Center)
• Indian Traditional Dance A Virtual Prototpe.
  Remote PresentationFaridah Noor Mohd Noor
  Selvanathan Narainasamy (University of Malaya),
  Suhaimi Napis (University Putra Malaysia).
• With the Aim of Forming the Education Network for
  Children in the World using Squeak and
  Fieldserver. Haruhiko Okumura, T. Shimomura, M.
  Matsuoka T. Kameoka (Mie Univrsity, JAPAN), H.
  Shimamura (Elab-experience Ltd.).

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Presentations in Taipei Meeting

• BoF meeting Extra discussion - For Research
  Collaboration
• Presentation for the Discussion
• Prospects of e-culture from a Standpoint of
  Human Science
• A case of Disaster Relief and
  Prevention,NAGATA, Motohiko (Faculty of
  Humanities and Social Sciences, Mie University)

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Current Chairing Persons

• Takaharu KameokaVice President, Mie Univeristy,
  JAPAN
• Piyawut SrichaikulComputing Research and
  Development Division (RDC)National Electronics
  and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC)National
  Science and Technology Development Agency
  (NSTDA), THAILAND
• Dae Young KIM InfoCom Eng. Dept. Chungnam Nat'l
  Univ., South KOREA

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Future Plans

• To be established as a Formal Workshop
• In the next Tokyo Meeting
• To Deal with Untouched Realm (?)
• Cultural issues
• Subculture issues, e.g. O-TA-KU, Comics on the
  Net
• Food Culture
• Technology
• Assembling and dissemination of data, e.g.
  Meta-data Harvesting (OAI-PMH)

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Future Plans

• Common Area Session A New Initiative in APAN
• The Proposal From Natural Resources Workshop
• On a Trial Basis
• Discussion on the fields of common interest,
  e.g. Civil Engineering
• Collaboration between Natural Resources and
  eCulutre Workshops

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Toward a Collaborative relationship with PNC

• Much to learn for the realization of
• Successful cooperative management
• Information sharing
• Need to avoid redundancy in similar initiatives
• ? Need for close communication and collaboration
• with similar groups or consortia
• especially with PNC.

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Thank you!
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Future APAN Meetings

• 21st APAN meeting in Tokyo - 2006.1.22-26
• 22nd APAN meeting in Singapore (proposal )-
  2006.7.17-21
• 23nd APAN meeting in Manila proposal -
  2007.1.22-26
• 24th APAN meeting in Xi'An proposal - 2007.7/8
• 25th APAN meeting in Hawaii proposal -
  2008.1.20-25
• http//www.apan.net/