ECAI Confirms Interest

The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative represents a consortium of architects, archaeologist, and librarians whose collective mission is to capture in rich 3-D form, the visualized creation of past events in space and time (ecaiweb@uclink.berkeley.edu and www.ecai.org). ECAI uses time and space to enhance understanding of past human cultures. With ECAI firmly set at UC Berkeley coincident with the ISDE5 venue setting, we can expect to benefit significantly from the experiences over the past few years. ECAI has been addressing technology infrastructure, creation of online projects and publications, developing standards and best practices, and a litany of collaboration issues that will provide excellent road maps for the Digital Earth community. We can easily envision an new and exciting Digital Earth with the augmentation of expertly created, rich visualization experiences for discovering more about our historic human cultural legacies.