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eCulture Workshop 20th APAN Meetings

Room F 11:00-17:30 24 August 2005

Taipei, Taiwan 　

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Session 1 - Technology oriented 　–Chair: Takaharu Kameoka ( Mie University)

1. The Technologies for Digital Content that Activate Local CommunityOno, Hiroshi (Contents, Inc., JAPAN)Sato, Yoshinori (Mie University, JAPAN)

2. E-Museum Development Progress in Thailand: - Case Study of Wat Makutkasattriyaram – Chularat Tanprasert, Rachabodin Suwannacunti, Piyawut SrichaikulComputing Research and Development Division (RDC)National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC)National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), THAILAND

3. Near Infrared Digital Images of Historical Resources of the Nara RegionKatsuya Watari & Saori Donkai (The Nara Women's University Library, Nara Women's University, JAPAN)

4. A Polymorphic Data Visualization for Spatiotemporal DatabaseMakoto Hanashima (Institute for Areal Studies, Foundation, JAPAN)

5. Communication in eCultureShih-Chieh Li (Executive Secretary of National Digital Archives Program, Taiwan, Program Office, TAIWAN)

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Session 2 - Social Science/ Humanity oriented 　–Chair: Prof. Y. Sato ( Mie University)

1. Research on Digital Heritage Exchange (DHX)Yong-Moo Kwon, Heedong Ko, Jinwook Kim (Imaging Media Research Center, Korea Institute of Science & Technology,Seoul, Korea)

2. Loess Plateau Project in China (Remote Presentation from The University of Tokyo)Ayumu Yasutomi (Tokyo University, JAPAN)Yoko Fukao (Osaka University of Foreign Studies, JAPAN)Juncai Ma, Shoji Hatano (Chinese Academy of Sciences , CHINA)Kazunari Yokoyama (Hokkaido Agriculture Research Center, JAPAN)

3. Indian Traditional Dance: A Virtual PrototpeFaridah Noor Mohd Noor & Selvanathan Narainasamy (University of Malaya)Suhaimi Napis (University Putra Malaysia)

4. With the Aim of Forming the Education Network for Children in the World using Squeak and FieldserverHaruhiko Okumura, T. Shimomura, M. Matsuoka & T. Kameoka (Mie Univrsity, JAPAN)H. Shimamura (Elab-experience, Ltd., JAPAN)

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BoF meeting: Extra discussion- For Research Collaboration -

Chair: Takaharu Kameoka ( Mie University)

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, JAPAN)

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eCulture in APAN

Takaharu KameokaExecutive Vice-President

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Why eCulture in APAN ?

• APAN is a network infrastructure• APAN has powerful groups in e-Science and Natur

al resource • APAN is powerful in agricultural collaboration

eCulture BOF Meeting in Cairns, Australia　　　　　　　　　 July 2-7, 2004

Reviewing eCulture Activity in EU

eEurope

• http://europa.eu.int/information-society/eeurope/index_en.htm

IST(Information Society Technologies)in the Framework Programme

• http://www.cordis.lu/ist/fp6/fp6.htm

Cultural Heritage in IST (eCulture Newsletter)

• http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ka3/digicult

• Culture in the EU

• http://europa.eu.int/culture/index_en.htm

• DigiCULT

• http://www.digicult.info/pages/info.php

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DigiCULT (http://www.digicult.info/pages/info.php)

• Mission– Benefiting the Cultural Heritage sector, through monitoring and assessing existing and e

merging technologies that provide opportunities to optimise the development, access to, and preservation of Europe's rich cultural and scientific heritage, within the emerging digital cultural economy.

• Description– Digital Culture (DigiCULT) is an IST Support Measure (IST-2001-34898) to establish a reg

ular technology watch for cultural and scientific heritage over the period of 30 months (03/2002-08/2004).

– This study covers several areas of interest, (national policies & initiatives, organisational change, exploitation, and ICT) and formulates a series of recommendations. In particular, it provides a roadmap of how cultural heritage technologies will or could develop in the near future (until 2006)

– Building on the knowledge and expertise of over 50 cultural heritage experts, DigiCULT will discuss and analyse current and future trends in several technology domains, that have been identified as key areas during the DigiCULT study. DigiCULT will also function as a stimulus for future R&D in/for the cultural heritage sector.

• Steering Committee Philippe Avenier, Ministère de la culture et de la communication, France Paolo Buonora, Archivio di Stato di Roma, Italy Costis Dallas, Critical Publics SA, Greece Bert Degenhart-Drenth, ADLIB Information Systems BV, The Netherlands Paul Fiander, BBC Information & Archives, United Kingdom Peter Holm Lindgaard, Library Manager for the Library & Archives Department of TV2, Denmark Erich J. Neuhold, Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany Bruce Royan, Concurrent Computing, United Kingdom

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Reviewing the study scope (key concepts)

in DigiCULT

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Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo)

Multidimensional Culture

Cultural Complexity

Comparative Literature Comparative Culture

Intercultural Communication

Crosscultural Exchange

Cultural Dynamics

Cultural Anthropology

Cultural Structure

Media and Technology

Cultural Symbol

Global Culture

Comparative Ethnic Journal

Image Set

Nation and Society

Interdisciplinary Research on Creation of Culture with Dynamics and Complexity

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What are eCulture Components ?

• From the global point of view– Common Understanding on Environmental Issue

• Definition of Culture– Learned behavior of people, which includes their belief

systems and languages, their social relationships, their institutions and organizations, and their material goods - food, clothing, buildings, tools, and machines.

• As a Mirror ｗ hich Reflects Cultural Dynamics– Food Culture, Cooking

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Importance of Chronology

(Timeline)

• Arrangement ｏｆ　 Politics, Economics, Social issues, Culture and International Events　

• Construction of Each Chronology for Bird’s-eye View of Each Period

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GIS in eCulture(Spatial Layer)

• GIService

• GIScience

• GISystem

e-Science Natural Resource Earth Monitoring Information Science Bioinformatics etce-Culture Economics Politics Education Humanities Art etc

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Food in eCulture

As a Mirror which Reflects Cultural Dynamics

Food Culture

Food Material

Cooking

Database for Food Material

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Proposal of Optical Tongue

Bernhard Lendl

Institute of Analytical ChemistryVienna University of Technology, Austria

Name:Health and Food Advisor RobotFeature: The world’s first partner robot with a sense of tasteHeight: 40 cmWeight: 6 kg

Tasting robot, Optical-tongue robot(EXPO 2005, Aichi, Japan)

Prototype Robot Exhibition by New Energy and IndustrialDevelopment Organization (NEDO), and Rep

ort by Various Media (EXPO 2005, Aichi, Japan)

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　 Demonstration

　“ This is surprisingly 　 (for me, anyway) accurate “

6/18-6/23 Newspaper ： 5, Magazine ： 2, Web （ Local ）： 16, Web （ World ）： 14

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eCulture should

• be Connected to Natural Science

• be Connected Each Other

• be an Interdisciplinary Research

• have its DBMS

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Review of eCulture in BangkokSummary:• Two sessions of presentations in:

– Virtual museums (Buddha/Historical sites) – Maps (Thailand, Japan) – Aborigines/Indigenous groups (Australia)– Language in advanced network

• Very diverse topics (technology and culture): – Still need to focus on what exactly is meant by e-

culture– Agreed to continue discussion prior to APAN

(TW)

• Discussion time not enough– Request for more discussion in next APAN

meeting

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Discussion on eCulture

• Application Technologies Area Committee Meeting will be held on 25th's 17:00-18:00.

• Should eCulture be a working group?

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Discussion on eCulture

Chair of eCulture WG

• Takaharu KameokaVice PresidentMie Univeristy, JAPAN

• Piyawut SrichaikulComputing Research and Development Division (RDC)National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC)National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), THAILAND

• Prof. Dae Young KIM InfoCom Eng. Dept. Chungnam Nat'l Univ. South KOREA

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Discussion on eCulture WG• What is the mission ?

• What is covered by eCulture ?

• What is the relationship between eScience and eCulture ?

• How to steer eCulture WG?

• Plan in Next APAN Meeting