You are welcome to the 4th Congress of Cultural Atlases hosted by the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) and Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia. The congress will be held on 22-24 April 2008 on Curtin University’s beautiful campus in the vibrant Western Australian city of Perth. What are cultural atlases? Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and global imaging resources such as Google Earth have made the use of digital mapping and finding familiar to many people. Less well known are the possibilities these technologies offer for finding, visualising and analysing cultural and historical information. The congress will explore how you can use GIS and other technologies to help people see historical and cultural evidence in new and enlightening ways. Diverse groups such as local and family historians, archaeologists, librarians, archivists and museum curatots, as well as academics from many disciplines are already producing wonderful work which they will present to inspire and excite the congress audience. The third day of the conference will consist of workshops on how to use rersources such as Google Earth as a basic resource on which to build visualisations of cultural data. These workshops will aim to get you started so bring your data and let us help you begin. Visit the ECAI web site to learn more about cultural atlases: |
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Maggie Exon |
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