Session Title |
e-Culture Workshop |
Chair |
Kameoka/Mie
Uni. and TBA |
Objective |
e-Culture is
an interdisciplinary research which covers contemporary p
olitics, economics, social issues and culture. Of course, eCulture sho
uld be connected to other APAN contents. ECulture workshop brings toge
ther participants from academia, industry and government to learn and
to discuss about eCulture activities in the APAN countries. The worksh
op is organized by 2 sessions. Because the meeting is held in Xi'An Ch
ina, one session is organaized as a special session of "Digital Silk R
oad".
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Target
Audience |
e-Learning,
Museum, Digital archive, Educator, Librarian, Anthropolog
ist, Historian |
Expected No.
of Participants |
30 |
Agenda of
Session |
Session 1: Digital SilkRoads and the Angkor Road
(30 August 2007 11:00-12:30)
Chair: Yoshinori Sato, Professor, Tohoku-Gakuin University, Japan
1. Sub Session -Digital
Silk Roads-
1.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
Abstract: The Digital Silk Roads Project is an international joint
research project conducted at NII from 2001. The project aims to create
a digital archive of cultural heritage in the Silk Road region, and
establish a new style of Silk Road study in the 21st centuries. Major
Achievements of the DSR Project are
1) Digital archiving of rare books of Toyo Bunko Digital archiving of
various historical documents including rare books in the possession of
the Toyo Bunko, a leading library in the field of Asian studies in the
world, was carried out. The main content is called Image and Manuscript
Database of Silk Road documents.
2) 3D-VR restoration of the Citadel of Bam In order to keep the
Memories of monument of Bam destroyed by the earthquake in December
26th 2004 , NII in cooperation with ICHTO(Iranian Cultural Heritage and
Tuarism Organization) started the 3D reconstruction of Citadel of Bam.
3D models of the important 11 sites of Citadel of Bam were created in
cooperation with Waseda University , University of Tehran and EVCAU in
France.
3) ASPCO Portal The Advanced Scientific Portal for International
Cooperation for Digital Silk Roads (ASPICO-DSR) was developed. This
portal allows participants to store and create metadata through their
personal workspaces. In addition, it provides a cooperation environment
to discuss resources before releasing them onto public arenas and to
build multilingual textual contents. Thus, researchers can access high
quality information without physical or social constraints.
5) DSR Imaginary Museum This Web portal provides digital Library,
Museum, Cinema and Panorama of Silk Roads and is incorporated in
Cultural Online System of Culture Agency of MEXT which is a prototype
information system that provides an easy and effective access to the
digital repository on cultural heritage in Japan.
6) The prototype Bamiyan Virtual Museum Afghanistan Bamiyan Buddhist
ruins have been virtually restored to what they used to be before the
destruction. The prototype was created by digitally archiving the
photos taken some 30 years ago in and around the Bamiyan ruins. The
presentation will give the achievements and future perspectives.
2.Title:
Development of Chinese Access and Search System for the Digital
Silkroad Project
Speaker: Tao Zhang Associate Professor, Dept.of Automation, Tsinghua
University
Abstract: This paper introduces the development of Chinese access and
search system for the Digital Silk Road (DSR) project. In order to
assist Chinese people who have interests in the history of Silk Road or
carry out the research on Silk Road, to obtain the information about
Silk Road, a Chinese access and search system have been developed by
the collaboration between Tsinghua University and National Institute of
Informatics (NII) of Japan. This system provides three approaches for
users to locate the expected information from the Digital Silk Road
system developed by NII. One is that user can directly access the
Chinese version of the Digital Silk Road system which we have
translated. Another is that we have developed a Chinese system by which
user can easily link to the expected information in the Digital Silk
Road system. This system is installed in the Tsinghua University.
Additionally, a search tool has developed for this system so that
Chinese people can easily locate the information by using Chinese
words. After further improvement, this system will provide actual
service for Chinese people and introduce the information given in the
Digital Silk Road system.
3.Title: Enhancing Applications
of the Digital Archive for Silk Road Studies
Speaker: Makiko Onishi Project Researcher(PostDoctorial Researcher)
NII(National Institute of Informatics)
Abstract:Our study aims at efficient applications of the Digital
Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books (http://dsr.nii.ac.jp/toyobunko/) for
academic research and education on Silk Roads. Firstly we describe the
application of digitized maps of Central Asia drawn by English
archaeologist, M. A. Stein. Mapping them on Google Earth facilitates
the reference to many sheets of big maps, enables to compare old maps
with current satellite images and helps to search ancient sites on
them. Map is famous for its elaboration and accuracy of locations of
ancient sites. Even today it is still useful for archaeological survey
and excavation. Secondly we show our reproduction of the Buddhist cave
no.9 in Bezeklik with a simple 3-D model. Cave no.9 was preserved best
in Bezeklik, and almost all the murals were detached from the original
place by European expeditors. Unfortunately, the original murals were
lost during World War II. Only plates of them in a catalogue are barely
left. However it is hard to imagine their original location in the cave
or the total plan as a religious space. Reproduction of the cave helps
to comprehend its meaning and function and can promote the study on it.
Finally we address further promising utilizations of digital archives.
4.Title: Living Angkor Road 
Speaker: Surat Lertlum, Ph.d. Program Head, Computer Science Program
Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy, Thailand
Abstract: Please refer "Surat.doc"
(3 MB)
Session 2 Toward a New
Perspective of e-Culture (30 August 2007 14:00-15:30)
Chair: Takaharu Kameoka, Professor, Mie University, Japan
1.Title:
Dancing across the Oceans: DancingQ 
Speaker: Dae Young KIM, ANF/CNU
Abstract: A Korean team led by ANF and Nulhui Dance Company has conducted a series
of cyber-performance over a few years. Named as DancingQ, meaning
Dancing Queen, the first such peformance took place in 2003 with
musicans and dancers separated in two remote places yet connected by
DVTS, a now standard DTV transmission technique over IP. Since then, the
team has executed two more performances, one with NYU and the other with
i2CAT in Barcelnona.
This year, DancingQ 2007 will be peformed in Busan, Korea and Den Haag,
Netherlands, also connected by uncompressed HDTV, a cutting edge IP
video techonolgy of the time. Experiences and lessons gathered through
this series of peformances will be presented as well as future visions
and plans.
2 Title: Korean Cyber Internet History Museum
Myungkoo KANG and Joohee SUH [Professor and PhD. Candidate, Department of
Communication College of Social Sciences, Seoul National University,
South Korea]
Abstract: This paper presents a brief introduction of Korean Cyber
Internet History Museum, discussions about the issues and tasks, and a
proposal for collaboration to construct Asia Internet History Museum.
Cyber Internet History Museum in Korea was constructed in 2007 to
collect and preserve the historical documents and materials. Though it
is the first cyber museum on Korean Internet history, the Museum has
many tasks waiting for actions, such as little space to participate by
computer specialists or engineers, poor interactivity, and poor
participation by ordinary Internet users. The four actors - engineers,
IT industry, policy makers, and Internet users - were pointed out as
major contributors to Korean Internet history, but there is still no
agreement on who took the most important part. Moreover, it is needed to
find out more elaborate methods to collect and preserve the original
documents. Finally, the characteristics of Korean Internet users and
Internet culture can be explained based on historical data preserved in
the Museum. Regarding the Asian collaboration for Internet History
Museum, the local cooperation for Asian Internet History Museum is
needed, and the Asian Internet History Museum would function as the
reference point for local Internet history of each country. Also, the
Asian Internet Archive like China's Web Archive would be the basis for
instructing Internet History Museum in the long-term.
3.Title: Participatory Media and e-Culture - How the
Present Information is Aggregated and Archived in "Digital Typhoon"
Website? KITAMOTO, Asanobu, Dr. Associate Professor
Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division Research
Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS) / National Institute of
Informatics (NII)
Abstract: "Digital Typhoon" Website (http://www.digital-typhoon.org) is
a portal site on typhoon information that integrates large-scale
scientific databases with participatory media on the general public.
Scientific databases archive satellite images and weather sensor data
(precipitation, wind, etc.) for several tens of years, while other
databases include mass-media news text collected automatically and
personal-media blog entries aggregated in a participatory manner. The
talk will focus on the last part, participatory media in particular, to
demonstrate that user participation may lead to the acquisition of
micro-scale and present information that raises sympathy from other
people. We discuss systems and results of the participatory media for
typhoon information, namely "Typhoon Front" (http://front.eye.tc/), and
possible applications of participatory media for e-culture, in which
user participation also plays a key role for collecting micro-scale
present information. -----------------------------------
4. Title: WebGIS and High-resolution Images (Demonstration) 
Hiroshi Ono [CONTENTS Co., Ltd, Japan]
Joint 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
Theme1: SOI Asia: SOI ASIA Project utilizes satellite based Internet to provide
Internet environments in a less expensive, easy to deploy, and more
feasible way for the universities located in the regions where Internet
environments are insufficiently developed; conducts research and
development of the necessary technology for IT human resource
development in Asia while using the environments; and proposes, through
field experiments, a new educational methodology for universities in
Japan as well as educational institutions abroad.
(In detail: http://www.soi.wide.ad.jp/soi-asia/)
Plan: ICT Application on Agriculture is a very important topic in Asia.
Especially, the lecture on this theme should be necessary in the
universities in Asia not only for Agricultural students but also for ICT
students. Mie university and Asia SEED (Asia Science and Education for
Economic Development, http://www.asiaseed.org/HP%20English/index.html)
are proposing a special symposium to start this new program for distance
learning by SOI Asia. This symposium is composed of 4 presentaions. So
far, Kameoka, Ninomiya, Hirafuji and Honda will make lectures on ICT in
agricultural application at Keio University and AIT in this Autumn. This
symposium will be delivered to the univeristies in Southeast Asia via
Internet.
Discussing point: Since we would like to make this program to be
presented by APAN agricultural WG, future posibility and direction not
only
in Agriculture but also in e-Culture should be discussed.
Fukuda from Asia SEED will explain her rough idea for this discussion.
Theme2: Discussion with consideration not only of e-Culture but also of
agriculture.
Agriculture WG Report 
e-Culture WG Report 
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Remarks (e.g.
special arrangement) |
Room setup
style: Classroom type
VC needed |
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