HUNAGI aktív részvétele a GSDI idei tisztújításában

Prof. David Coleman GSDI elnök tegnapi felkérésére a HUNAGI főtitkára tagja lesz a GSDI szervezet  5 fős jelölőbizottságának. A bizottság összetétele:
Prof. David Coleman a GSDI elnöke, University of New Brunswick, Kanada
Prof. Abbas Rajabifard a GSDI volt elnöke, University of Melbourne, Ausztrália
Martin Salzmann, Kadaster, Hollandia
Silburn Clarke, Spatialvision, Jamaica 
Gabor Remetey-Fulopp a GSDI volt titkára, HUNAGI, Magyarország
A jelölő munka a GSDI 14 világkonferenciáig zárul le (Addis Ababa, 2013 november).
Kiegészítés október 10-én.
Prof. David Coleman GSDI elnök, a jelölőbizöttsági munka lezárását követően a következő levélben tájékoztatta a GSDI szervezet tagjait (köztük a HUNAGI-t) a jelölőlistáról:

"Dear GSDI Council Members,

A GSDI nominating committee was recently constituted in accordance with the GSDI Bylaws.  The members of that committee have selected a slate of candidates for potential election to fill opening positions on the Board of Directors.  The nominations are as follows:

Nominations for GSDI Board of Directors (as of 10/10/2013)

Government  (one person to be elected)

   - Li Weisen, NASG China         

Non-Profit  (one person to be elected)

    - Andre Nonguierma, UN Economic Commission for Africa                                   

Region - Africa (one person to be elected)                                 

   -  Hussein Farah, Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development                     

Region - North America   (one person to be elected)              

   - Ivan de Loatch, U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee             

Region - South America    (one person to be elected)             

   -  Eric van Praag, CAF - Latin America Development Bank

International Geographic Organization (one person to be elected)      

   - Josef Strobl, UNIGIS International Association

  

International Industry Organization    (one person to be elected)       

    - Mark Reichardt, Open Geospatial Consortium  

Region - Asia/Pacific  (one person to be elected)

    - Dan Paull, PSMA Australia

Links to biographies for each of the candidates are available in the "GI Community Registry" section of the the Association's GIKNet website (http://www.giknet.org/login.php).  The ratification of this slate will take place at the Council Meeting onSunday 3 November 2013 in Addis Ababa. See http://www.gsdi.org/gsdiconf/gsdi14/meetings.html."

HUNAGI tisztségviselő előadásmeghívása a londoni GDI 2014 konferenciára

A Geospatial Defense Intelligence konferenciára 2014 januárjában kerül sor Londonban. A konferencia  egyik szakmai szervezőjének meghívására a HUNAGI főtitkára előadást tart Hogan, Patrick, Brovelli, Maria és De Amicis, Raffaele szerzőtársakkal a NASA World Wind első európai, diákok és kisvállalkozások számára kiírt versenyéről. 

Az Elektronikus Kultúrális Atlasz Kezdeményezés (ECAI) igazgatójának beszámolója

HUNAGI 2006-tól az ECAI megfigyelő tagja. Az Elektronikus Kulturális Atlasz Kezdeményezés térségi, kulturális és történelmi összefüggéseket elemez információs és informatikai infrastruktúra felhasználásával. A Berkeley Egyetemről ma érkezett meg Jeanette L. Zerneke ECAI igazgató beszámolója:
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ECAI Director's Report

August 2013

Future Meetings

 PNC 2013 Annual Conference and Joint Meetings, 2013.

 ECAI is pleased to announce our collaboration with PNC this year and encourage your participation in the following events:

2013 PNC Annual Conference and Joint Meetings

Hosts: Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University (CIAS), Information Processing Society of Japan-Special Interest Group of Computers and the Humanities (IPSJ SIG-CH), PNC, and co-hosted by National Institutes for Humanities (NIHU), Japan.

            Conference Dates:  

     December 9th ANGIS and ECAI Cultural Atlas Consortium Meeting

     December 10th -11th PNC Annual Conference

     December 12th PNC Annual Conference and NIHU Meeting

     December 13th -14th IPSJ SIG-CH Meeting

Main Theme: New Paradigms on Humanities Computing – Linking Knowledge of Human Activities

ECAI will be hosting two workshops: a general meeting of the Cultural Atlas Consortium co-hosted by Academia Sinica and a team meeting of the Maritime Buddhism Project.   See more: http://ecai.org/Activities/2013-PNC-Kyoto-ECAI_Workshop.html

ECAI members are encouraged to present papers on their current research as part of the main PNC conference.Session proposals, paper, or poster submissions must be entered through the PNC website. Please also send an Email to ECAI program contact, Jeanette Zerneke, to indicate your intention to present. ECAI papers will be reviewed by the Conference Program Review Committee. Those recommended for acceptance by ECAI will be approved.   

Submission Deadline:  SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Submit your application to PNC Secretariats through PNC online submission system. More information is available at PNC 2013 Website at http://www.pnclink.org/pnc2013/english/index.html. S

General Contact: Jernaette Zerneke,  ECAI@berkeley.edu Berkeley

ECAI Maritime Buddhism Workshop, August 27-29th, 2013

Hosted by Hal Thwait at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Nan Tien Institute, Wollongong, is providing the Secretariat, through an agreement with ECAI. Details at http://ecai.org/Activities/2013-Malaysia-ECAI_Workshop.html

Adan Archive Project

The organizational planning group met at Sogang University campus in Seoul to set the goals and strategies for digitizing 25,000 volumes of rare books held in the Adan

Professor Wayne de Fremery is leading the project and will host an ECAI/Adan workshop December 5-7 in Korea

Atlas of Korean Literature

In the planning phase, the Atlas of Korean Literature will provide geo-registration as one approach to the data relating to authors, publishers, and editors of literary works.  The effort is being led by Professor Kwon Yong-min of Seoul National University and Professor Wayne de Fremery of  Sogang University.

Past Meetings  

ECAI Workshop: Cultural Atlas Consortium, In conjunction with TELDAP, March 15, 2013, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. Details at http://ecai.org/Activities/2013Teldap/Teldap2013-ECAI_Workshop.html  The next meeting of the Consortium will be at the Kyoto meeting in December

ECAI Workshop: Technical Aspects of Cultural Heritage & Seminar: Atlas of Maritime Buddhism, March 25, 2013. Held at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Nalanda Sriwijaya Centre, Singapore. Details at http://ecai.org/Activities/2013Singapore/Singapore_ECAI_Maritime_Buddhism_Workshop2013.html. The follow-up will be held at the workshopAugust 27-29 at University of Malaya

ECAI Collaboration Agreement

An agreement has been signed between the School of Information at U.C. Berkeley and   Nan Tien Institute in Australia to provide support for the ECAI Atlas of Maritime Buddhism. Louisa Lam is representing Nan Tien, is serving as the coordinator for the workshops, travel, and planning of the Atlas.

Publications

Papers describing progress with ECAI’s project ‘Editorial Practices and the Web’ can be found athttp://metadata.berkeley.edu/mellon2010publ.htm

People
Dr Shoichiro HARA, Vice-Director, Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University: Information Infrastructures for Area Studies, and Prof. Tatsuki SEKINO, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan, visited ECAI on June 10. They presented their research on ‘Information Infrastructures for Area Studies’ and on ‘Time information system and basic temporal information’ respectively.
 Prof. Peng Zuo, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, is currently a visiting scholar working on a database of Tang dynasty poetry.

Past ECAI Directors’ Reports 
Past ECAI Directors’ Reports are available at http://ecai.org/about/directorsRpts.html"