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e-culture at UC Berkeley: Networked cultural and environmental data Caverlee Cary Staff Research Associate Geographic Information Science Center University of California, Berkeley Asia-Pacific Advanced Networking Conference Digital Resources for e-Culture and Historical Mapping Bangkok, Thailand January 26, 2005
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e-culture at UC Berkeley: Networked cultural and environmental

data

Caverlee CaryStaff Research AssociateGeographic Information Science CenterUniversity of California, Berkeley

Asia-Pacific Advanced Networking ConferenceDigital Resources for e-Culture and Historical Mapping Bangkok, ThailandJanuary 26, 2005

Issues for consideration

Art, artifacts, and the digital image From image to e-culture E-culture networking initiatives at UCB

Berkeley GIS and networked e-culture: mediating art

and the world in the “Mapping Ayutthaya” project

Art, artifacts, and the digital image

Authenticity and “aura” Digital technology: a change in the

relationship between society and art objects

Greater accuracy… greater truth?

From image to e-culture

E-culture as the sum of digital product visualizing or expressing aspects of culture

Relationship between culture and simulation of culture

Interoperable e-culture

Networking initiatives at UC Berkeley

The University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The Museum Informatics Project (MIP) The Berkeley Natural History Museums

consortium The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI)

The University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive:Pioneer in interoperable collections

One of the first museums to explore networked visual arts collections

Collections: modern art and Asian art

Early efforts to integrate collections with libraries and archives through MOAC

bampfa.berkeley.edu

Berkeley Art Museum collection query interface

The Museum Informatics Project:Multi-collection network portal

Coordinates the application of information technology in museums and other organized, non-book collections of UC Berkeley

– data models– system architectures– demonstration systems

mip.berkeley.edu

Museum Informatics Project portal to collections websites

The Berkeley Natural History Museums:network for queries across collections

Common interface for collection search

Unites biological diversity, from molecular evolution to human prehistory

Cultural data: the Hearst Museum of Anthropology

Uses the Darwin Core version 1 standard

DiGIR (Distributed Generic Information Retrieval)

Database management at the GIS Center

http://bnhm.berkeley.museum/

Interface for queries across collections

Moving toward geographic search

Current: capacity to browse all collections by country, province, or state

Future: Grant funding development of an online automated georeferencing tool, “BioGeoMancer,” to assign coordinates to data with location information but without coordinates

The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative:e-culture networking at the data level

Portal to cultural data Data contributors largely

beyond the University of California

GIS for the humanities Requires contributor

registration of datasets (individual as well as institutional participation level)

URL: ecai.org

The dataset search interface: ECAI Metadata Clearinghouse

Dataset discovery, retrieval, and visualization using Timemap tools

ECAI Southeast Asia:A case study for regional e-culture

Based at the UC Berkeley GIS Center

Invites participation by all with cultural data pertaining to Southeast Asia region

Sponsors workshops in ECAI technology

http://www.gisc.berkeley.edu/seadca/coverpage.html

Art and the world: the “Mapping Ayutthaya” project

Informational supplement to “Kingdom of Siam” exhibition (Asian Art Museum, San Francisco)

Data from exhibition, integrated with other information

AAM: a mechanism for education about Ayutthaya

GISC: a mechanism for introducing GIS

Using GIS to visualize Ayutthaya as a trading entrepot

Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to visualize, not analyze

GIS well suited to spatially distributed information

GIS well suited to integrating discrete kinds of information

Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to visualize, not analyze

Three fixed map-space scales for users:– Global– Siam– Ayutthaya

Using Timemap software, a customized, time-enabled GIS viewer, not analysis tool

GIS well suited to spatially distributed information

Selected points of contact Image links specific to the exhibition “Global” and “Siam” layers combine

exhibition images and datasets from the Southeast Asia Digital Cultural Atlas project

GIS well suited to integrating discrete kinds of geo-referenced cultural data

Additional datasets integrated with the exhibition images

Datasets culled from the Southeast Asia digital cultural atlas trade routes project

Trade ceramics mapping dataset(data courtesy Dr. Roxanna Brown, Director, Southeast Asia Ceramics Museum, Bangkok University)

Exhibition objects suggestive of Ayutthaya’s international contact(images courtesy Dr. Forrest McGill, Head Curator, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco)

GIS well suited to integrating discrete kinds of spatial imaging

Ayutthaya layer includes a range of display options for mapping Ayutthaya

User options for interface selection:– historical maps– political maps– topographic maps– satellite images– aerial images

(data courtesy Dr. Surat Lertlum, Fulbright Visiting Scholar, GIS Center, and Professor, Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy)

1687 Map of Ayutthaya: original (left), geo-referenced (right)

Contemporary topographic map (left) and ADEOS satellite image (right)

Fine Arts Department map of archaeological sites in Ayutthaya (left); map with GIS layers (right)

Geo-referenced historical map with GIS data layers

Conclusion

“Mapping Ayutthaya” is an exemplar of a project that both draws from and contributes to the sum of networked e-culture

“Mapping Ayutthaya” is intended to teach not only about Ayutthaya in the narrow context of the “Kingdom of Siam” exhibition, but about Thai history, the dynamics of global cultural connections, and the potential of GIS for the humanities

“Mapping Ayutthaya” can continue to grow with fresh contribution and manipulation of its data, or may “morph” into other projects with new internet lives