---------------------------------------------------- Internet Guide for China Studies Newsletter http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ignew.htm ---------------------------------------------------- 19.10.1998 New in IGCS - Geography: The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) Ed./Corp.: coordinated at University of California, Berkeley, USA URL: http://www.ciolek.com/ECAI/ecai-home.html Language: English. Description: Self description: "ECAI is an international research project aimed at the creation of spatially referenced, GIS-style cultural databases which can be accessed seamlessly across the Internet from a common front-end software. The interlinked and metadata tagged ECAI databases will seamlessly combine: (1) mapping [physical, political, administrative, topographic etc]; (2) physical features [climate, animals, soils, vegetation]; (3) demographical features [populations, births, deaths, genders, classes, cohorts, categories, occupations]; (4) historical features [contacts, interchanges, treaties, wars, conquests, journeys of discovery, colonisations, diasporas]; (5) cultural features [people, ideologies, languages, beliefs, behaviors, artifacts, styles]; (6) visual materials [art, photographs, drawings, plans]; (7) virtual reality reconstructions [objects, places, landscapes]; (8) animated simulations, interpolations and what-if-experiments; (9) numeric/statistical information [tables, correlations, online calculations and charts]; (10) timelines, concordances, and timemaps [e.g. spread of civilisations, languages, technologies]; (11) hypertext links to related non-ECAI online resources [web sites, vrml environments, ftp archives, databases, library catalogs]; (12) texts - I [studies, documents and bibliographies]; (13) texts - II [gazetteers, thesauri and dictionaries]." _______________________________________________________ With kind regards, Hanno Lecher INTERNET GUIDE FOR CHINA STUDIES -- editor http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ _______________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to: [log in to unmask] containing the following message: SIGNOFF IGCS-L