Session 1.Technological Issues (14:00-15:30, 7.19.2006 Wednesday);
Chair: Mr. Sanggyun KIM (KIST, Korea)

1. Title: OOPS, Did You Mean to Share That? Opensource, Opencourseware, and the Learning Objects of Tomorrow
Speakers: Curtis J. Bonk (Professor) Instructional Systems Technology Dept. School of Education, Indiana University, USA

Abstract: The learning world is being flattened by such technologies as Google, Skype, Wikipedia, podcasting, and blogs. There are web sites springing up aroundthe globe related to sharing courses, course materials, resources, and teaching ideas. MERLOT, for example, has more than 34,500 members and 15,000 shared learning objects as well as an annual international conference. CAREO is a similar project developed in Canada while the UK has just developed a learning object site called Jorum. And, of course, there is a the MIT OpenCourseWare initiative which is not only sharing MIT course content around the globe in English, but is now being translated into other languages such as Chinese, Spanish, and Portuguese. One of these projects is called the Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System (OOPS) and is led by Lucifer Chu in Taiwan. Interestingly, more than 50 universities around the globe are following the lead of MIT and placing their courses online including those in Vietnam, Japan, and India. Naturally, many questions surround such systems and sites. For example, who will continue to maintain or update such sites? For what purpose will people share? Will these "share" sites bridge the digital divide? Does sharing differ by culture? How will copyright issues be addressed? What happens when one did not mean to share his or her course contents or ideas, or, at least, not as widely? How will such learning objects of today be viewed in 100 or 200 years? Will online sharing become expected of all faculty members around the planet? If so, how will that change the face of higher education? In this humorous, informative, media-rich, and thought provoking session, Curt Bonk will highlight such themes and issues while pushing the audience to think of short- and long-range implications both for their institutions and organizations as well as for themselves.

2.Title: Bottomed-up e-Culture: NDAP's Community Participation Meta-Project Framework
Speakers: Ilya LEE (Project Manager)Program Office of National Digital Archives Program Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Abstract: As the current prevailing "Web 2.0" concept/practices becoming the "design patterns and business models for the next generation of software", it's the timely moment right now to re-examine NDAP --- National Digital Archives Program for preserving Taiwanese natural resources, environmental, cultural heritage and diversities --- and check its development paradigms in the past 5 years.
The earliest website construction focus, followed by building databases with large datasets across disciplines, now shift to the establishment of knowledge base(s). Content designers connecting databases with knowledge context, plan about the data interchange among stakeholders. The "rich" paradigm, or Rich Internet Application / Rich Client approach is about utilizing the abundant data, and is strategically useful in developing NDAP's community participation framework across projects. We thus plan about shaping communication with social software/network service design in building up the bottomed-up e-Culture.

3.Title: The "Living Geomedia Memory Monitoring" Project
Speakers: Frederic Andres (Associate Prof.) Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division NII (National Institute of Informatics), JAPAN

Abstract:In order to protect and to monitor cultural sites or specific landscape areas, living area, local authorities often make human patrols to view the conditions of those sites. The traditional way of patrolling is often limited and confined to the available roads. Also an other issue is the time overhead to take photos or video by humans. Mainly, problems are due to incomplete monitoring and data classification shortcomings. the presentation will introduce an open source platform to monitor geomedia information systems based on data acquisition using a Remote Control Helicopter. Also this platform can provide some solutions regarding risk-assessment or disaster-aid management regarding the building inventory management. Such a multi-disciplinary project rises issues and trade-offs related to the semantic management in order to reduce the costs and deployment time for the system to become operational.

4.Title: Introduction of Digital Culture Heritage Content Projects in Korea
Speakers: Gihun Kim (remote speaker)

Abstract:This talk would be introduction of Digital Culture Heritage Content Projects of KOCCA. Through this project, Korea's traditional tangible, intangible cultural heritages are turned into the digital contents. KOCCA assist the development of core technology that will grow the industry and create an environment which will allow the production and distribution of high-quality cultural contents. In this talk, we introduce how we do with this project and some progress in Korea.

Session 2. Data sharing (16:00-17:30, 7.19.2006 Wednesday);
Chair: Faridah Noor Mohd Noor (University of Malaya, Malaysia)

1.Title: Food liking: Consistency and Variation
Speakers: Hajime Nagai BRAND'S Centre for Health and Nutritional Sciences Cerebos Pacific Limited, Singapore

ABSTRACT: Food liking and Consumer behavior for taste and smell are very important points of view for food and beverage industries. Among Asia countries we have lots of variation for food cultures and histories. If we develop the new type of food product over several Asian countries, we need information of taste profiles which each country have in different way. For example, the optimum intensity of sweet taste for beverage is very different from country by county. I guess the physiological threshold of sweetness is also different between the people that live in different region. In addition to physiological property, the own culture for food makes more complex in its taste liking. That is a reason why we can not success by using the same product in Thailand, which made succeed in Japan. On the other hand, we have many problems for the description of the taste qualities in country by country. The language is main problems to keep the consistency on the sensory evaluation. But, for example, if we evaluate the gumamih taste in chicken soup, many consumer words regarding gumamih taste exist in also same language. Understanding the above mentioned complexities for food liking is required for Asian global strategy of food business. I hope the e-culture system for taste and smell sensation is a great help for challenging to understand food liking in the Asia countries.

2 .Title: Rice Cultivating Culture - Data accumulation and its implications
Speaker: Masao ISHII (Professor) Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, Mie Univeristy, JAPAN

Abstract: The rice is one of the most important and the most widely cultivated crop in Asia and Pacific. It has long history since BC7000 or more and its cultivation is still expanding now. It is not only important as a staple food but also important in that the social system, the cosmic view and the ideology are based on the rice cultivation. Various disciplines are interested in the rice cultivation, such as botany, agronomy, nutrition science, food chemistry, economy, history, anthropology and so on. But the knowledges accumulated through long history of each discipline are not sufficiently put together to develop further study. Each research field concentrated its interest into a very narrow specific subject. For example, the dry rice cultivation based on the slash and burn agriculture is presumed to be old and primitive mode of the rice cultivation compared to the wet paddy cultivation. But is that really true? Why then is the dry rice still eagerly cultivated in the wide area of Asia and why is the variety harvested in the dry field highly appreciated and dealt in the markets more expensive than the paddy field rice. The rice cultivation is a total cultural phenomenon and to well understand its entire picture, we should collaborate to accumulate and organize our data on the rice cultivation.

3 .Title: The geo-informatics information for cultural studies in Southeast Asia withcase studies in Thailand and Cambodia
Speakers: Col. Surat Lertlum, Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy, Thailand
                   Panjai Tantatsanawong, Silpakorn University, Thailand

Abstract: Geo-informatics information have been utilized in the cultural heritage conservation, reservation, management, and research studies in various cases. For example, remote sensing and GIS data can be used for archaeological analysis together with conventional archaeological analysis methods. There are various cases around the world that geo-informatics information was used to assist archaeologists to pin point, help to identify and understand archaeological sites. In the similar way, we can adapt the similar applications to use in the area of Thailand and surrounding, especially, Cambodia, the country that have rich cultural resources.
In this presentation, the geo-informatics information that is available for cultural studies for the Southeast Asia region will be demonstrated. The proposal for digital archieve system development for this data will be presented, together with case studies. The first case study is to utilize the geo-information for the study of city planning of Ayutthaya, the former capital of Thailand. The second case study is to identify and pin point the Royal road from Angkor to Phimai that was constructed by the Jayavarman VII, the great king of Cambodia. From archaeological and historical studies, we had learnt that during his period, the Khmer empire was expanded to cover most of the area of the Southeast Asia. We would like present the study in detail of the royal road, its utilization, the people who lived and used the royal road, and the culture that had disappeared, and the one that has been continue to flourish along the royal road until today.

4 .Title: Excavating History and Culture through Digital Documentation: The Shwedagon Pagoda, Rangoon, Myanmar
Speakers: A. Razak, A.S (Lecturer), University of Malaya Sulaiman, K (Associate Prof.), University of Malaya Baharum, M.R (Lecturer), University of Malaya

Abstract:This research was initiated between the Faculty of the Built Environment, University of Malaya and Joint Secretary of e-National Task Force of Myanmar in 2004, to develop a technological enhancement process through digitization and virtual reconstruction of archaeological monuments, specifically the historical Shwedagon Pagoda located in Rangoon. The methodology applied is derived in three main phases; Collection, Documentation and Presentation. Various disciplines amongst researches provide framework and methods on earchivingf the building, from history and cultural point of view, materials and dilapidation survey to restoration process. Using CAD application as primary tool, a model based design was produced as means of managing and utilizing information in virtual environment. The outcome of this research aims to reconcile the historic narrative of the pagoda with the nationfs cultural identity using IT application as medium of presentation.
Keywords: cultural identity, architectural education, hybridization, managing information technology, cultural aesthetics, CAD application and model based design.

5 .Title: DIGITISATION OF MAK YONG: A MODEL FOR PRESERVING INTANGIBLE MALAY HERITAGE
Speakers: Faridah Noor Mohd Noor, University of Malaya
Suhaimi Napis, Dr. Harun Jantrik, University Putra Malaysia,
Hanafi, University of Malaya, MALAYSIA

Abstract: Mak Yong is a form of Malay traditional dance theatre that was recently acknowledged as a World Heritage by UNESCO in October 2005. This form of dance theatre originated from the old Malay Patani of southern Thailand via Kelantan, a north eastern state of West Malaysia. One of the unique features of this dance theatre is that the main characters are all women, and the males play the peripheral characters to add humour and side relief to its intricate web of multiple plots. In the old days, mak yong was performed at the royal palaces. The three main elements of the performance are the dance, music and dialogue. This presentation is to describe the work initiated to digitise mak yong as a step towards archiving this endangered Malay dance theatre. For the purpose of this research, a recording of a dancer performing the opening act of a mak yong performance called menghadap rebab was made in a recording studio at Universiti Putra Malaysiafs Institute of Multimedia and Software. The dance was also captured using 3-D Optical Motion Capture Equipment (Motion Analysis ?, USA). The intricate moves of the dancer were captured by a motion camera which registered the input (position and orientation) and integrated them with a computer generated 3-D environment. The image generated contains the vital information of position, orientation, acceleration and proximity integrated within a three-dimensional environment created by computer software. The three dimensional dance framework is first created by strategically placing sensors on parts of the dancerfs body, including her fingers as the finger movements form an intricate part of the mak yong dance movements. We present the first phase of the project where the basic dance movements of the mak yong dance were camtured. Further implementations on using the captured data for preservation and edutainment are under way. The same team has previously embarked on an ongoing virtual dance project of the traditional Indian dance. We believe this to be among the first collaborative research between the Arts and IT in Malaysia.