AsianDOC Electronic Newsletter 1:3 (October 1998)

Announcements:

• November 24, 1998
  Issues in Cross Cultural Communication
  "TOWARDS CULTURALLY SITUATED AGENTS"
  Singapore
  http://www.nttmsc.com.my/kido/pricai98cfp.html

• January 18-21, 1999
  Joint meeting of:
  Electronic Buddhist Text Initiative
  Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
  Scholars Engaged in Electronic Resources
  Pacific Neighborhood Consortium
  Taipei, Taiwan
  http://www.sinica.edu.tw/info/event/pnc/calendar.html

• March 11-14, 1999
  Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting
  Boston, Massachusetts
  http://www.aasianst.org

• April 6-7. 1999
  IEEE Meta-Data'99
  The Third IEEE Meta-Data Conference
  NIH Campus, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
  Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society - Mass Storage Systemss and Technology Technical Committee and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
  http://www.llnl.gov/liv_comp/metadata/md99/md99.html

• April 19 - 21, 1999
  The Fourth International Conference and Exhibition on
  The Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Technology
  Commonwealth Insititue and Events Centre, London, UK
  http://www.demon.co.uk/ar/PAAM99/

• May 12-14, 1999
  ICCC/IFIP Third Conference on Electronic Publishing 1999
  University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, Sweden
  Theme:Redefining the Information Chain - New Ways and Voices
  http://www5.hk-r.se/elpub99.nsf

• May 19-21, 1999
  IEEE ADL'99
  Advances in Digital Libraries Conference
  Baltimore, MD, USA
  Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, Library of Congress, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, CESDIS, Rutgers University CIMIC, National Library of Medicine
  http://cimic.rutgers.edu/adl99/

• May 24-26.
  Pasadena, California, Pasadena Hilton Hotel.
  EVALUATING AND USING NETWORKED INFORMATION RESOURCES AND SERVICES.
  ASIS (American Society for Information Science) 1999 Mid-Year Conference.
  http://www.asis.org/Conferences/my99call.html.

• June 19-21, 1999
  The International Conference on Geoinformatics and Socioinformatics
  at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.
  http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/chinadata/geoim99
  

  The conference is sponsored by the Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Systems Abroad (CPGIS), the China Data Center (CDC) at the University of Michigan, the Center for Environmental Information Technology and Analysis (CEITA) at Eastern Michigan University, and the Joint Laboratory for GeoInformation Science (JLGIS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

  The conference will focus on (1) the integration of geographical, environmental and socioeconomic information, (2) new and emerging developments in GIS technology and models in the social and natural sciences, and (3) applications of GIS in China and other regions of the world.