AsianDOC Electronic Newsletter 1:1(March 1998)









PACIFIC NEIGHBOURHOOD CONSORTIUM MEETING 1998 

 Date: 12 to 14, May, 1988
 Venue:
     Centre of Academic Activities, 
     Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
Program arrangements:  Prof. Lewis Lancaster.

Other issues: Dr. Simon C. Lin, Director of Computing Centre,  Academia Sinica 



PROGRAM

Registration: Activity Hall, Lobby, Academia Sinica The registration and information desk will be open: May 15-10:00-18:00 May 16- 8:00- 16:00 May 17- 8:00-16:00 May 18- 8:00-14:00 May 15 14:00-15:30 Steering Committee, Room 2 15:30-16:00 Break 16:00-17:30 Steering Committee, Room 2 18:00-20:00 Opening Ceremony and Reception May 16 9:00-10:30 a.m. Keynote Addresses Room 1 10:30 a.m. Photo Session Room 1 10:30-10:50 Break DISTANCE LEARNING SESSION Conference Room 1 -- 10:50-12:20 "Current Status and Future Perspective of Distance Learning in Taiwan" Liu Shen Chen Ministry of Education, Taiwan . "Mexico and Electronic Communication in Education" Alejandro Pisanty, National University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico "The Interactive University Project for K-12: A Model for Cooperation between Campus and Schools" David Greenbaum University of California, Berkeley, USA 12:20-13:30 Luncheon WEB TECHNOLOGY SESSION I Conference Room 1 13:30-15:00 . "Markup on the Web-From TEI to XML" John Lehman University of Alaska, USA . "From SGML to XML" Shi-ming Ju National Institute of Technology-Kaohsiung, Taiwan "Asian Studies and the WWW" Matthew Ciolek, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia CARTOGRAPHY SESSION I Conference Room 2 13:30-15:00 "Applications of GIS for Humanities and Social Sciences" I-chun Fan Academia Sinica, Taiwan "Internet GIS and Decision Support Systems: Conceptual Design" Royon Chitrabon Bangkok, Thailand "The Advantages of Small Scale Area Standardised GIS Base Maps for Organizing and Accessing Electronic Resources" Lawrence Crissman, Griffith Univeristy, Brisbane, Australia 15:00 Break WEB TECHNOLOGY SESSION 2 Conference Room 1 15:20-16:50 "Ekanji Database: Creation of Fonts" Tetsuya Katsumura, Kyoto University, Japan "Searching the Web: Challenges, Problems and Partial Solutions" Richardo Baeza-Yates University of Chile, Santiago, Chile Panel Discussion: John Lehman, University of Alaska, USA Shi-ming Ju, National Institute of Technology-Kaohsiung, Taiwan Matthew Ciolek, The Australian National University, Australia Tetsuya Katsumura, Kyoto University, Japan Richardo Baeze-Yates, University of Chile, Chile RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT SESSION I Conference Room 2 15:20-16:50 "Development of Humanities Computing at Academia Sinica" Kuan-chung Huang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan "Christianity in China Database" Mark Mir, University of San Francisco, USA "OCR Software for Tibetan Block Print Editions" M. Kojima, Tohoku Institute of Technology, Japan ______________________________________________________________________________ May 17 NETWORKING SESSION I Conference Room 1 9:00-10:30 " On the IT Strategic Development for Pacific Neighborhood Countries" Simon Lin, Academia Sinica, Taiwan 10:30 Break NETWORKING SESSION II Conference Room 1 10:50-12:20 Panel Discussion CARTOGRAPHY SESSION II Conference Room 2 10:50-12:20 "The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative: Format and Structure" Richard Henderson Lewis Lancaster University of California, Berkeley USA Panel Discussion: Royan Chitrabon, Bangkok, Thailand Lawrence Crissman, Griffith University, Australia Richard Henderson, University of California, Berkeley, USA Lewis Lancaster, University of California, Berkeley, USA Luncheon 12:20-13:30 LIBRARY SESSION I Conference Room 1 13:30-15:00 . "Asian Library Cooperation" Thomas Hahn University of Heidelberg/University of Wisconsin, Germany "Chinese Information Access and Retrieval: Issues Facing Libraries" Ki-tat Lam University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong "South Asian Resources Database: A New Library Tool for the Study of SouthAsia Ian Dawes Curtin University of Technology, Perth Australia 15:00 Break LIBRARY SESSION II Conference Room 1 15:20-16:50 "A Project for Library Interchange of Archival Material" Tsymjit Vanchikova Academy of Science, Ulan Ude, Buryiatia "Audiovisual Management and Preservation of Library and Archive Materials" Helen Jarvis, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Discussants: Thomas Hahn, University of Heidelberg/University of Wisconsin Ki-tat Lam, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Ian Dawes, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia Tsymjit Vanchikova, Academy of Science, Ulan Ude, Buryatia Helen Jarvis, University of New South Wales, Australia RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT SESSION II Conference Room 2 15:20-17:20 "Electronic Resources Development and SEER (Scholars Engaged in Electronic Resources) Jost Gippert, University of Frankfurt, Germany "Russian Resources in Oriental Studies and Their Electronic Presentation" Eugene Golovanov Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow, Russia "China Data Center and Related Initiatives" Karl Longstreth University of Michigan, USA "Image Database for Cultural Sites of Asia John Huntington Susan Huntington Janice Glowski Ohio State University, USA Banquet 18:30-20:00 ______________________________________________________________________________ May 18 MEDICAL, BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES, ECOLOGY Conference Room I, 9:00-10:30 . "Establishing an Integrated Molecular Biology Database for Functional Genomics" Lan-yang Ch'ang Academia Sinica, Taiwan "Hematology Diagnosis: a CD ROM model" Martin Cline University of California, Los Angeles, USA . "Computerizing Tibetan Pulse Diagnostics: Approaches, Implementation, Perspectives" Rinchinov Oleg Academy of Science, Ulan Ude, Buryiatia 10:30 Break MEDICAL, BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES, ECOLOGY SESSION II Conference Room 1 10:50-12:20 "Tools and Infrastructure for Scientific Collaboratories: The Collaboratory Interoperability Framework (CIF) Deb Agarwal Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA Panel Discussion: Lan-Yang Ch'ang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Martin Cline, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Rinchinov Oleg, Academy of Science, Ulan Ude, Buryatia Deb Agarwal, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA LEXICAL SESSION Conference Room 2 10:50-12:20 "Toward a Sharable and Resuable Lexical List: The Construction of a Standard Reference Lexicon for Chinese NLP" Chu-ren Huang Keh-jiann Chen Zhao-ming Gao Academia Sinica, Taiwan "The Chinese, Korean, Japanese Dictionary Project" Charles Muller, Toyo Gakuen, Chiba, Japan Panel Discussion: Chu-ren Huang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Charles Muller, Toyo Gakuen, Japan Keh-jiann Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Zhao-ming Gao, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Luncheon 12:20-13:30 STANDARDS AND COPYRIGHTS SESSION I Conference Room 1 13:30-15:00 "Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Fair Use Policy" Paul Liu National Chengchi University, Taiwan . "The Missing Character Problem: A Progress Report" C.C. Hsieh, Academia Sinica, Taiwan . "The Issue of Rare Characters: Codings and Input" Christian Wittern University of Goettingen, Germany 15:00 Break STANDARDS AND COPYRIGHTS SESSION II Conference Room 1 15:20-16:50 "Hanziku: Implementation of 54,000 Chinese Characters on Mainstream Operating Platforms" Huiray Shih, Department of Research and Development, Fo Kuang Shan, Taiwan "Response to the Chinese Coding Issues: The Role of PNC" Howie Lan University of California, Berkeley, USA Panel Discussion Paul Liu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan C.C. Hsieh, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Christian Wittern, University of Goettingen, Germany Huiray Shih, Department of Research and Development, Fo Kuang Shen, Taiwan Howie Lan, University of California, Berkeley, USA Closing Session Room 1 15:30


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