The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) is a

digital humanities Digital humanities (DH) is an area of scholarly activity at the intersection of computing or Information technology, digital technologies and the disciplines of the humanities. It includes the systematic use of digital resources in the humanitie ...

initiative involving numerous academic professors and institutions around the world with the stated goal of creating a networked digital

atlas An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a bundle of maps of Earth or of a region of Earth. Atlases have traditionally been bound into book form, but today many atlases are in multimedia formats. In addition to presenting geograp ...

by creating tools and setting standards for dynamic, digital maps. ECAI was established in 1997 by Emeritus Prof.

Lewis Lancaster Lewis R. Lancaster (born 27 October 1932) is Emeritus Professor of the Department of East Asian Languages at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and has served as President, Adjunct Professor, and Chair of the dissertation committee at Un ...

of the University of California, Berkeley, and has held two meetings per year most years from 1998 - 2009 (ongoing), one of which is often in conjunction with the Pacific Neighbourhood Consortium. The initiative is based at UC Berkeley. The ECAI 'clearinghouse' of distributed digital datasets was developed from 1998 by the Archaeological Computing Laboratory at the University of Sydney, and uses the ACL's TimeMap software.

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*http://www.ecai.org/
Historical Geographic Information Systems Online Forum on Google
Cartography organizations Geographic information systems organizations Digital humanities Historical geographic information systems University of California, Berkeley Research institutes in the San Francisco Bay Area Digital humanities projects 1997 establishments in California {{edu-org-stub

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