1. e-Culture Workshop 23rd APAN Meetings PL-3 09:00-12:30 24 th January 2007 Manila, Philippine

2. Today’s presentations Session 1: Chair Prof. Takaharu Kameoka 9:00 9:05 What is eCulture? By: Takaharu KAMEOKA, Mie Univ. JAPAN 9:05 9:35 Launching Historical Road GIS By: Yoshinori SATO, Mie Univ., JAPAN 9:35 10:05 eCulture Activities in Taiwan By: Illya Eric Lee, NATIONAL DIGITAL ARCHIVE PROGRAM, TAIWAN 10:05 10:35 Tasting robot, Optical-tongue Robot By: Takaharu KAMEOKA, Mie Univ. JAPAN 10:35 11: 00 Session Break

3. Takaharu Kameoka Mie University JAPAN What is e-Culture ？

4. Why e-Culture in APAN ? APAN is a network infrastructure APAN has e-Science and Natural resource APAN is powerful in agricultural collaboration APAN has a Digital Asia Project Now we have to think about the contents on human dimensions So let’s open the doors of APAN to humanities, social science and arts etc., so called e-Culture Real time monitoring of cultural or sub-cultural change is another important role of eCulture.

5. Ubiquitous: Connects everyone and everything Universal: People friendly-contacts from heart to heart User-oriented: Integration of user viewpoints Unique: Generation of individual vitality More user-centric Network Background

6. Ubiquitous Network ( 総務省、情報通信白書 2004 年版 ) Ubiquitous Network Broad Band Mobile Phone PDA Digital Broadcasting Anything Anytime and Anywhere TV is a gateway in IT Society

7. Key Characteristics of Ubiquitous Network Visionary Holistic Pragmatic Paradigm shift in thinking

8. Extraction of Culture Related Concept and its Development Natural Resources Area Agriculture WG Earth System WG Earth Observation WG Creation of eCulture WG 21 st APAN Tokyo, JAPAN Complex of Humanities & Social Sciences and ICT ICT oriented Humanities & Social Sciences oriented eCulture Workshop 23rd APAN Meetings 24th January 2007 Manila, Philippine 18th APAN 2004.7.2-7 Cairns, Australia History of APAN e-Culture

9. Situation of APAN eCulture Meeting Local, TransNational, Transdisciplinary Since APAN Cairns Meeting in Australia (July 2-7, 2004) Reflection of Features based on Local Network eCulture or eSubculture generated on the Internet General contents on Digital Archive Collaboration with Natural Resources Importance of eCulture WG Meeting –For Common Platform Design

10. 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

11. e-Culture in GIS (Spatial Layer) GIService GIScience GISystem e-Science Natural Resource Earth Monitoring Information Science Bioinformatics etc e-Culture Economics Politics Education Humanities Art etc

12. Mie University e-Culture should be connected to natural science Connected each other interdisciplinary research

13. Culture +Diversity +Maturity +Spirituality +Harmonization e-Culture +Application of internet technology +Symbiosis +Accessibility +Individualization +Respectability Climate Language Nation Race Religion Internet Food Concept of eCulture

15. Today’s presentations Session 1: Chair Prof. Takaharu Kameoka 9:00 9:05 What is eCulture? By: Takaharu KAMEOKA, Mie Univ. JAPAN 9:05 9:35 Launching Historical Road GIS By: Yoshinori SATO, Mie Univ., JAPAN 9:35 10:05 eCulture Activities in Taiwan By: Illya Eric Lee, NATIONAL DIGITAL ARCHIVE PROGRAM, TAIWAN 10:05 10:35 Tasting robot, Optical-tongue Robot By: Takaharu KAMEOKA, Mie Univ. JAPAN 10:35 11: 00 Session Break

16. Today’s presentations Session 2: Chair Prof. Yoshinori SATO 11:00 11:30 PROGRESS OF WAT MAKUT E_MUSEUM PROJECT AND THE NEW CHALLENGE By: Piyawut Srichaikul, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Thailand 11:30 12:00 DIGITAL ANKORWAT PROJECT By: JINHO PARK,, KAIST, Korea 12:00 12:30 Information, Environmental and Cultural Education for Children using Picton, Squeak and Field Server By: Takaharu KAMEOKA, Mie Univ., Japan

18. Today’s presentations Session 1: Chair Prof. Takaharu Kameoka 9:00 9:05 What is eCulture? By: Takaharu KAMEOKA, Mie Univ. JAPAN 9:05 9:35 Launching Historical Road GIS By: Yoshinori SATO, Mie Univ., JAPAN 9:35 10:05 VIETNAM ECULTURE ACTIVITIES By: NGUYEN HAI NINH, Ministry of Culture and Information of Vietnam (MOCI), Department of National Cultural Heritage, 51- 53 Ngo Quyen str., Hoan Kiem dist., Ha Noi Viet Nam 10:05 10:35 eCulture Activities in Taiwan By: Illya Eric Lee, NATIONAL DIGITAL ARCHIVE PROGRAM, TAIWAN 10:35 11: 00 Session Break