e-Culture Workshop 24th APAN Meetings

11:00-17:30 30th August 2007

Xi’an, China　

Today’s presentationsSession 1: Digital SilkRoads and the Angkor Road

(30 August 2007 11:00-12:30) Chair: Yoshinori Sato, Professor, Tohoku-Gakuin University, Japan

Sub Session -Digital Silk Roads- Title: Digital SilkRoads Project: Current Status and Future Perspectives

Speaker: Kinjo Ono Professor Emeritus, Professor(Special Appointment for Digital Silk Roads) of NII(National Institute of Informatics) Visiting Professor of Waseda University

Title: Development of Chinese Access and Search System for the Digital Silkroad ProjectSpeaker: Tao Zhang Associate Professor, Dept.of Automation, Tsinghua University

Title: Enhancing Applications of the Digital Archive for Silk Road StudiesSpeaker: Makiko Onishi Project Researcher(PostDoctorial Researcher) NII(National Institute of Informatics)

Title: Living Angkor Road Speaker: Surat Lertlum, Ph.d. Program Head, Computer Science Program Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy, Thailand

Demonstration:

10:35 11: 00 Session Break

Today’s presentationsSession 2 Toward a New Perspective of e-Culture

(30 August 2007 14:00-15:30) Chair: Takaharu Kameoka, Professor, Mie University, Japan

1. Dancing across the Oceans: DancingQ (Remote Speaker from Korea)Speaker: Dae Young KIM, ANF/CNU

2 Korean Internet History Cyber Museum Speaker: Joohee Suh & Myungkoo KANG, Department of Communication College of Social Sciences, Seoul National University, South Korea

3. Participatory Media and e-Culture - How the Present Information is Aggregated and Archived in "Digital Typhoon" Website? - Speaker: KITAMOTO, Asanobu, Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division, Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS) , National Institute of Informatics (NII)

4. WebGIS and High-resolution Images (Demonstration) Speaker: Hiroshi Ono, CONTENTS Co., Ltd, Japan

15:30 16: 00 Session Break

Today’s presentationsJoint meeting of e-Culture WG & Agriculture WG (30 August 2007 16:00-17:30)

Chairs: Takaharu Kameoka, e-Culture WG Masayuki Hirafuji, Agriculture WG

Theme1:Distance learning by School of Internet (SOI) Asia 1. Introductory Presentation

Sayaka Fukuda SOI Asia Project Asia SEED, Bangkok, Thailand

2. Related Presentation (Remote speaker from New York) Buenafe Abdon, PhD Student Advanced Agricultural Technology & Sciences Graduate School of Life & Environmental Sciences University of Tsukuba, Japan

Theme2: Food Cultural Database

Takaharu KameokaMie University

JAPAN

e-Culture and Xi’an

Keyword is “Silk Road”

• The Silk Road, or Silk Route, is an interconnected series of ancient trade routes through various regions of the Asian continent mainly connecting Chang'an (today's Xi'an) in China.

• Digital Silk Roads Project:– In cooperation with UNESCO– International joint research project at NII

(National Institute of Informatics)– From April 2001

• Project leader: – Kinjo Ono Professor

Professor Emeritus (Special Appointment for Digital Silk Roads) of NIIVisiting Professor of Waseda University

Silk Road Sub session