From zita at ISI.EDU Sun Aug 1 00:56:52 2004 From: zita at ISI.EDU (Zita Wenzel) Date: Sun Aug 1 01:07:40 2004 Subject: [APRU-DLI] APRUNet Newsletter (v.3, n.7) Message-ID: <410CA244.9000300@isi.edu> ====================================================== APRUNET NEWSLETTER JULY 2004 (V.3, n.7) This is the networking activities newsletter of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) . It is designed as a tool to assist in the development of advanced Internet capabilities among APRU universities and APEC economies. The key goal is to develop teaching and research applications that utilize advanced Internet technologies, e.g., distance learning, virtual conferences, telemedicine, etc. by sharing, networking, partnerships, and collaborations. This newsletter may be used to give or receive information on a project or to look for partners or collaborators. Comments or suggestions are encouraged and welcomed. For online current and past copies of the APRUNet Newsletter, see . Please send your news to . If you do not wish to be subscribed, or wish to add your name to the mailing list, please see . Zita Wenzel APRUNet Coordinator ====================================================== TABLE OF CONTENTS NEW! APRUNET ONLINE DISTANCE LEARNING DISCUSSION LIST 1. DLI 2004 CALL FOR PAPERS/DEMONSTRATIONS DEADLINE IS 31 JULY 2004 2. APRUNet Distance Learning and the Internet Conferences 3. APRUNet Meetings 4. Fifth APRU Doctoral Students Conference 5. APRU Infectious Diseases and the Society Conference 6. APRUNet Projects and Partnerships - Marine and Ocean Biology Project - Global Infectious Diseases Project - East Asian Studies Videoconferencing Project 7. APRUNet Distance Education Portal 8. News from APNIC 9. Internet2 Commons Subscription 10. Formation of APEET (Asia Pacific ENUM Engineering Team) 11. APAN Call for Papers 12. The Australasian Workshop on Grid Computing and e-Research (AusGrid 2005) 13. . ECAI/Digital Libraries and Digital Collections Call for Papers 14. Related Meetings 15. Comments and Suggestions APRUNet Online Distance Learning Discussion List Register now at 1. DLI 2004 CALL FOR PAPERS/DEMONSTRATIONS DEADLINE IS 31 JULY 2004 "The Fifth Annual "Distance Learning and the Internet" Conference will be hosted by Tsinghua University, Beijing, China from 11-13 October 2004. More information is available on the conference web site at . The call for papers is now open. Papers relating to the conference themes are welcome. All papers are to be submitted to Tsinghua University at by 31 July 2004. Demonstrations are particularly invited and are strongly recommended. We would also like to invite students to attend and share their views; some travel awards may be available. 2. DISTANCE LEARNING AND THE INTERNET CONFERENCES To subscribe to the APRUNet Newsletter, see "The Fifth Annual "Distance Learning and the Internet" Conference will be hosted by Tsinghua University, Beijing, China from 11-13 October 2004. More information is available on the APRU web site at and the conference web site at . THE CALL FOR PAPERS/DEMONSTRATIONS DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO AUGUST 15. The Fourth Annual "Distance Learning and the Internet" Conference was held at the National University of Singapore from 30 November to 2 December 2003. The theme for that conference was "Global Knowledge Enterprise -- Learning without Walls" with three sub-themes: 1. Distance Learning and Economic Development 2. Infrastructure and Technology Trends in Distance Learning 3. Learning Strategies for Distance Programs Abstracts of presentations are available at . 3. APRUNET MEETINGS The next meeting will take place in conjunction with the next "Distance Learning and the Internet" conference taking place 11-13 October 2004 at Tsinghua University in Beijingm China. Details will be sent under separate cover to all APRUNet representatives. If you are an APRUNet representative for your institution and have not received information, please write to . APRUNet Representatives Mark Your Calendars! The second APRUNet meeting was of 2004 was held in Cairns, Australia on Tuesday, 06 July from 16:00-18:00 in Room E in conjunction with the Asia Pacific Advanced Networking Consortium (APAN) meetings . The first APRUNet meeting of 2004 was held on 27 January 2004 in Honolulu, Hawaii in conjunction with the Internet2 Joint Techs/Asia Pacific Advanced Networking Consortium (APAN) meetings. For more information, see and . The last APRUNet Meeting of 2003 was held in Singapore on 03 December in conjunction with the 4th APRU Distance Learning and the Internet conference. The slides of the meeting are posted on the APRUNet web page . 4. FIFTH APRU DOCTORAL STUDENTS CONFERENCE The 5th APRU Doctoral Students Conference will be hosted by University of Sydney from 09-13 August 2004. The theme for this year's conference is entitled "Research at Pacific Rim Universities: Economic, Scientific and Cultural Perspectives -- The Way Forward." Designed as an interdisciplinary gathering, the conference offers an excellent opportunity for doctoral students to present their research and exchange ideas with fellow students from APRU universities in the various fields in science, technology, business, economics, social sciences and the humanities. A new feature of this year's conference is a series of conference workshop sessions conducted by faculty members of APRU universities. The workshops organized along the theme of "Preparing Future Faculty Members for Academic Leadership in the 21 Century" seek to inform doctoral students on what they need to know to enter the professorate at universities. APRU member universities are encouraged to select and fund the travel of at least one doctoral student to this conference. Participation by two or more doctoral students is most welcome. More information on financial assistance, lodging and other conference information will progressively be available at the conference website at >. The conference organizer at University of Sydney is Mr. Matt Hall. He may be contacted for any queries on conference arrangements at >. 5. APRU INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND SOCIETY CONFERENCE There was an APRU Conference on "Infectious Diseases and the Society" hosted by Fudan University in Shanghai from 7-9 July 2004. This conference looked at the development of infectious diseases research as well as the impact and implications of infectious diseases on social and public health. It aimed to bring together public health experts, social scientists and others involved in community health, as well as biomedical researchers and the medical/scientific community, to share information and explore possible collaborations. Infectious diseases and its impact on society have increasingly become a pertinent issue that needs to be addressed in a global society, as evidenced by the continuing spread of existing infectious diseases as well as the onset of new ones. Many APRU universities are at the forefront of research and public health initiatives in this field, and it would undoubtedly be useful for these experts from APRU universities to meet and exchange experiences and information. For results of this conference, see . 6. APRUNET PROJECTS AND PARTNERSHIPS Send offers or requests for partnerships to Here are three APRUNet projects that are moving forward. If you are interested in participating, please contact > or subscribe directly to the mailing lists as detailed below. - Marine and Ocean Biology Project mail to: This area was initiated at the APRUNet meeting in Busan, Korea in August. This is a major area in the Pacific Rim community, and collaboration and advanced technologies may allow and encourage the exploration and comparison of different marine and coastal ecosystems that would otherwise not be available. There are a number of topics that could be examined in this project. Internet2 has a number of undersea projects in its K20 initiatives <%3chttp:/k20.internet2.edu/%3e>. Some are and . Please subscribe to the mailing list (above) if your university would like to join, or if you would like more information. - Global Infectious Diseases Training Program Project mail to: The APRUNet project on Global Infectious Diseases is beginning to coalesce around online education and training in tuberculosis and SARS. A current proposal is to work on simulations with Pacific Rim partners. Please subscribe to the mailing list (above) if your university would like to join, or if you would like more information. - East Asian Studies Videoconferencing Project mail to: This series of multipoint video-conferences on East Asian Studies aims to reconstruct East Asian histories in perspectives growing from within its lived memories and experiences. The most current series was focusing on "Urban Youth Cultures in Asia Pacific". A set of multipoint videoconferences with Seoul National University, University of Tokyo, National University of Singapore, and University of Southern California will continue to be held in the coming semesters. Probably topics include Chinese Nationalism and Globalization: Urban Youth Cultures in East Asia. Please subscribe to the mailing list (above) if your university would like to join, or if you would like more information. 7. APRUNET DISTANCE EDUCATION PORTAL Please send your distance education URLs to University of Sydney VEIN It was launched at the beginning of May, 2001. VEIN is an information service for veterinary and animal scientists, and allied animal health professionals, with a focus on access to high quality information and lifelong learning in the 21st Century knowledge economy. Services are provided on and off the Web. VEIN is of particular relevance to professionals based in Australasia and is an initiative of the University of Sydney Library , Faculty of Veterinary Science , Post Graduate Foundation in Veterinary Science and Veterinary Science Foundati Centre for Flexible and Distance Learning The University of Auckland Far Eastern National University > University of Oregon UCLA Less Commonly Taught Languages' distance learning project Under the Language Resource at the UCLA International Institute's site Stanford University Stanford Center for Professional Development Institute for International Studies - Initiative on Distance Learning Education Program for Gifted Youth AllLearn: Alliance for Distance Learning University of Southern California Center for Scholarly Technology University of Washington 8. NEWS FROM APNIC APNIC Training team recently had a collaborative joint training session with the University of Malaya in KL, Malaysia. I thought the following short report would be newsworthy material for APRUNET Newsletter. APNIC Training team was invited by University of Malaya in KL, Malaysia to conduct a session of Internet Resource Management Essentials training on the 20th July, 2004 to a group of students mainly from the University's Master graduate programme. The Dean of the Computer Science and Information Technology Faculty Professor Dr. Ir. Selvanathan Narainasamy and the Senior Lecturer Mr. Ling Tech Chaw were very glad that APNIC Internet Resource Management Essentials course was able to provide that enrichment to all the Master graduate students in IT who are either already starting work or are on the verge of getting into the work force. The training most certainly helped to put a lot of theory into perspective in real life especially in the world of business and IT. Professor Dr. Selvanathan and Mr. Ling are looking forward to a continuing collaborative effort next year and they were talking about possibly expanding the programme to a technical workshop session. 9. INTERNET2 COMMONS SUBSCRIPTION Subscribe now to the Internet2 Commons multipoint videoconferencing service, and you'll receive unlimited use through the end of September. Three months of unlimited use will give you plenty of time to configure your endpoints and try out the many display, bit rate, streaming, and archiving options available. It's a great way to get comfortable with the advantages of multipoint videoconferencing. This offer is limited to applications received during the month of July. The mission of the Internet2 Commons is to promote and facilitate remote collaboration throughout the Internet2 research and education community. Apply today to start the subscription process. 10. FORMATION OF APEET (ASIA PACIFIC ENUM ENGINEERING TEAM) Singapore, July 19, 2004 - CNNIC (China Network Information Center), JPRS (Japan Registry Service), KRNIC (Korea Network Information Center), SGNIC (Singapore Network Information Center) and TWNIC (Taiwan Network Information Center) today announced the formation of Asia Pacific ENUM Engineering Team (APEET), an informal technical project team formed to coordinate and synergize ENUM activities in the Asia Pacific region. ENUM allows IP devices to be assigned a telephone number which is globally interoperable. Before the formation of APEET, each member organization has been conducting its own ENUM trials, most of which are isolated trials conducted within each member organization's country/region. With the formation of APEET, member organizations will be able to implement technical solutions that facilitate ENUM trials across Asia Pacific. 11. APAN CALL FOR PAPERS Call for Proposals - Workshops/Sessions/Papers Asia Pacific Advanced Network Conference 19th APAN Meetings Bangkok, Thailand 24-28 January 2005 12. AUSTALASIA WORKSHOP ON GRID COMPUTING AND E-RESEARCH (AUSGRID 2005) CALL FOR PAPERS To be held in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week Newcastle, Australia, 30 January - 04 February 2005 >. The Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing and its state partners are supporting e-Research by deploying a national grid infrastructure and working to grid-enable applications in areas such as physics, astronomy, chemistry, geoscience, earth sciences and life sciences. The Australian Research Council is also planning to implement an initiative to support e-Research in Australia. Topics of interest for the workshop include: * Grid applications and e-Research. * Grid computing middleware and tools. * Data Grids - applications, middleware, infrastructure, data and metadata management and integration. * Grid infrastructure - experiences with building, managing and using grids. * Grid portals and problem-solving environments. * Grid economy. * Web services and Grid services. * Semantic Web and Semantic Grid. * Collaboration using the Grid and Access Grids. * Performance evaluation and modelling. * Next generation grids. 13. ECAI/DIGITAL LIBRARIES AND DIGITAL COLLECTIONS CALL FOR PAPERS As in past years, ECAI has been invited to host sessions at the annual conference of the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium. This year's conference will be held from 17-22 October 2004 in Taipei, Taiwan at the Academia Sinica. The conference is co-sponsored by PNC and by the Pacific Rim Digital Libraries Association (PRDLA). The theme is Digital Libraries and Digital Collections in the Global Community. More information about the conference may be found at . ECAI invites proposals of papers, poster/demos, and sessions on the following topics: Cultural Atlas Showcase/ECAI Plenary Cultural Atlases in the Classroom Virtual Reality for Cultural Atlases Digital Gazetteers Cultural Atlas Development 14. RELATED MEETINGS - The International Conference on Education and Information Systems: Technologies and Applications EISTA 2004 The Inter-American Organization of Higher Education IOHE Orlando, Florida 21-25 July 2004 - Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA ) 7thWorkshop San Diego, California, USA September 2004 15. COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS Please email Copyright (c) 2004 Association of Pacific Rim Universities. ====================================================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/apru-dli/attachments/20040731/4c76cd8e/attachment-0001.html From zita at ISI.EDU Sat Aug 21 13:34:23 2004 From: zita at ISI.EDU (Zita Wenzel) Date: Sat Aug 21 13:49:50 2004 Subject: [APRU-DLI] APRUnet Newsletter (v.3, n.7) Message-ID: <4127B1CF.5020606@isi.edu> ====================================================== APRUNET NEWSLETTER AUGUST 2004 (V.3, n.7) This is the networking activities newsletter of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) . It is designed as a tool to assist in the development of advanced Internet capabilities among APRU universities and APEC economies. The key goal is to develop teaching and research applications that utilize advanced Internet technologies, e.g., distance learning, virtual conferences, telemedicine, etc. by sharing, networking, partnerships, and collaborations. This newsletter may be used to give or receive information on a project or to look for partners or collaborators. Comments or suggestions are encouraged and welcomed. For online current and past copies of the APRUNet Newsletter, see . Please send your news to . If you do not wish to be subscribed, or wish to add your name to the mailing list, please see . Zita Wenzel APRUNet Coordinator ====================================================== TABLE OF CONTENTS NEW! APRUNET ONLINE DISTANCE LEARNING DISCUSSION LIST 1. DLI 2004 CALL FOR PAPERS/DEMONSTRATIONS EXTENDED! 2. APRUNet Distance Learning and the Internet Conferences 3. APRUNet Meetings 4. Acacia Pressures Academia for Patent Payments 5. Fifth APRU Doctoral Students Conference 6. APRUNet Projects and Partnerships - Marine and Ocean Biology Project - Global Infectious Diseases Project - East Asian Studies Videoconferencing Project 7. APRUNet Distance Education Portal 8. News from APNIC 9. Internet2 Commons (Videoconferencing) Workshop 10. Universiti Malaya Convocation 11. APAN Call for Papers 12. The Australasian Workshop on Grid Computing and e-Research (AusGrid 2005) 13. . ECAI/Digital Libraries and Digital Collections Call for Papers 14. Related Meetings 15. Comments and Suggestions APRUNet Online Distance Learning Discussion List Register now at 1. DLI 2004 CALL FOR PAPERS/DEMONSTRATIONS DEADLINE EXTENDED! "The Fifth Annual "Distance Learning and the Internet" Conference will be hosted by Tsinghua University, Beijing, China from 11-13 October 2004. More information is available on the conference web site at . The call for papers is now open. Papers relating to the conference themes are welcome. All papers are to be submitted to Tsinghua University at by 31 August 2004. Demonstrations are particularly invited and are strongly recommended. We would also like to invite students to attend and share their views; some travel awards may be available. 2. DISTANCE LEARNING AND THE INTERNET CONFERENCES To subscribe to the APRUNet Newsletter, see "The Fifth Annual "Distance Learning and the Internet" Conference will be hosted by Tsinghua University, Beijing, China from 11-13 October 2004. More information is available on the APRU web site at and the conference web site at . THE CALL FOR PAPERS/DEMONSTRATIONS DEADLINE IS NOW. The Fourth Annual "Distance Learning and the Internet" Conference was held at the National University of Singapore from 30 November to 2 December 2003. The theme for that conference was "Global Knowledge Enterprise -- Learning without Walls" with three sub-themes: 1. Distance Learning and Economic Development 2. Infrastructure and Technology Trends in Distance Learning 3. Learning Strategies for Distance Programs Abstracts of presentations are available at . 3. APRUNET MEETINGS The next meeting will take place in conjunction with the next "Distance Learning and the Internet" conference taking place 11-13 October 2004 at Tsinghua University in Beijingm China. Details will be sent under separate cover to all APRUNet representatives. If you are an APRUNet representative for your institution and have not received information, please write to . APRUNet Representatives Mark Your Calendars! The second APRUNet meeting was of 2004 was held in Cairns, Australia on Tuesday, 06 July from 16:00-18:00 in Room E in conjunction with the Asia Pacific Advanced Networking Consortium (APAN) meetings . The first APRUNet meeting of 2004 was held on 27 January 2004 in Honolulu, Hawaii in conjunction with the Internet2 Joint Techs/Asia Pacific Advanced Networking Consortium (APAN) meetings. For more information, see and . The last APRUNet Meeting of 2003 was held in Singapore on 03 December in conjunction with the 4th APRU Distance Learning and the Internet conference. The slides of the meeting are posted on the APRUNet web page . 4. ACACIA PRESSURES ACADEMIA FOR PATENT PAYMENTS Acacia Media Technologies, which last month suffered a setback in its efforts to force adult entertainment sites to make licensing payments for using its patented streaming video technology, has now turned its attention to higher education, whipping off dozens of letters to colleges claiming the schools' use of streaming video for purposes such as distance learning violates its patents. Acacia's digital media patents were acquired from Greenwich Information Technologies in 2001 and since then Acacia has secured dozens of licensing deals with companies, including Walt Disney. And while a handful of colleges and universities have agreed to pay up, most have resisted. The American Council on Education and the Electronic Frontier Foundation both are advising colleges not to pay, citing last month's legal ruling that several terms in Acacia's patents were indefinite -- a verdict that could knock a hole in Acacia's case for demanding payments from other sectors. "Honestly, I think it's a sign of desperation," says EFF staff attorney Jason Schultz. "Acacia knows the hammer is coming down on its patents, and it's going to extract as much as it can before the apocalypse," adding that the company's tactics were "a threat to the future of education? I think that's despicable. Universities are under enough pressure in their budgets right now to try to pay for everything. The last thing they need to do is give a pound of flesh to some tech company that doesn't even make a product." (AP 9 Aug 2004) 5. FIFTH APRU DOCTORAL STUDENTS CONFERENCE The 5th APRU Doctoral Students Conference was hosted by University of Sydney from 09-13 August 2004. The theme for this year's conference was entitled "Research at Pacific Rim Universities: Economic, Scientific and Cultural Perspectives -- The Way Forward." Designed as an interdisciplinary gathering, the conference offered an excellent opportunity for doctoral students to present their research and exchange ideas with fellow students from APRU universities in the various fields in science, technology, business, economics, social sciences and the humanities. A new feature of this year's conference was a series of conference workshop sessions conducted by faculty members of APRU universities. The workshops organized along the theme of "Preparing Future Faculty Members for Academic Leadership in the 21 Century" seeked to inform doctoral students on what they need to know to enter the professorate at universities. APRU member universities are encouraged to continue to select and fund the travel of at least one doctoral student to these conferences. Participation by two or more doctoral students is most welcome. 6. APRUNET PROJECTS AND PARTNERSHIPS Send offers or requests for partnerships to Here are three APRUNet projects that are moving forward. If you are interested in participating, please contact > or subscribe directly to the mailing lists as detailed below. - Marine and Ocean Biology Project mail to: This area was initiated at the APRUNet meeting in Busan, Korea in August. This is a major area in the Pacific Rim community, and collaboration and advanced technologies may allow and encourage the exploration and comparison of different marine and coastal ecosystems that would otherwise not be available. There are a number of topics that could be examined in this project. Internet2 has a number of undersea projects in its K20 initiatives <%3chttp:/k20.internet2.edu/%3e>. Some are and . Please subscribe to the mailing list (above) if your university would like to join, or if you would like more information. - Global Infectious Diseases Training Program Project mail to: The APRUNet project on Global Infectious Diseases is beginning to coalesce around online education and training in tuberculosis and SARS. A current proposal is to work on simulations with Pacific Rim partners. Please subscribe to the mailing list (above) if your university would like to join, or if you would like more information. - East Asian Studies Videoconferencing Project mail to: This series of multipoint video-conferences on East Asian Studies aims to reconstruct East Asian histories in perspectives growing from within its lived memories and experiences. The most current series was focusing on "Urban Youth Cultures in Asia Pacific". A set of multipoint videoconferences with Seoul National University, University of Tokyo, National University of Singapore, and University of Southern California will continue to be held in the coming semesters. Probably topics include Chinese Nationalism and Globalization: Urban Youth Cultures in East Asia. Please subscribe to the mailing list (above) if your university would like to join, or if you would like more information. 7. APRUNET DISTANCE EDUCATION PORTAL Please send your distance education URLs to University of Sydney VEIN It was launched at the beginning of May, 2001. VEIN is an information service for veterinary and animal scientists, and allied animal health professionals, with a focus on access to high quality information and lifelong learning in the 21st Century knowledge economy. Services are provided on and off the Web. VEIN is of particular relevance to professionals based in Australasia and is an initiative of the University of Sydney Library , Faculty of Veterinary Science , Post Graduate Foundation in Veterinary Science and Veterinary Science Foundati Centre for Flexible and Distance Learning The University of Auckland Far Eastern National University > University of Oregon UCLA Less Commonly Taught Languages' distance learning project Under the Language Resource at the UCLA International Institute's site Stanford University Stanford Center for Professional Development Institute for International Studies - Initiative on Distance Learning Education Program for Gifted Youth AllLearn: Alliance for Distance Learning University of Southern California Center for Scholarly Technology University of Washington 8. NEWS FROM APNIC APNIC Training team recently had a collaborative joint training session with the University of Malaya in KL, Malaysia. I thought the following short report would be newsworthy material for APRUNET Newsletter. APNIC Training team was invited by University of Malaya in KL, Malaysia to conduct a session of Internet Resource Management Essentials training on the 20th July, 2004 to a group of students mainly from the University's Master graduate programme. The Dean of the Computer Science and Information Technology Faculty Professor Dr. Ir. Selvanathan Narainasamy and the Senior Lecturer Mr. Ling Tech Chaw were very glad that APNIC Internet Resource Management Essentials course was able to provide that enrichment to all the Master graduate students in IT who are either already starting work or are on the verge of getting into the work force. The training most certainly helped to put a lot of theory into perspective in real life especially in the world of business and IT. Professor Dr. Selvanathan and Mr. Ling are looking forward to a continuing collaborative effort next year and they were talking about possibly expanding the programme to a technical workshop session. 9. INTERNET2 COMMONS (VIDEOCONFERENCING) WORKSHOP Here's an update on our next training opportunity. Please join us or pass this on to your colleagues. If you're new to H.323 videoconferencing technology or want to broaden your knowledge base, join us for this day-long, intensive workshop in Austin, Texas. You'll also meet others who are deploying and advancing H.323 technologies at member institutions. The training will be held in conjunction with the Fall 2004 Internet2 Member Meeting on September 27th, though attendance and registration are independent of one another. The cost is $200. Topics include H.323 basics, Multipoint Control Units, Session Initiation Protocol, Network Troubleshooting, and more. Successful completion will certify each participant as an Internet2 Commons Site Coordinator, a requirement for participating in the Internet2 Commons H.323 service. For more information, visit: http://commons.internet2.edu/train/200409/ 10. UNIVERSITY MALAYA CONVOCATION You can view the whole proceeding of USM's 33rd Convocation live on the follwing link http://special.time.net.my/usm/ proudly presented by NRG (Network Rearch Group) of the School of Computer Sciences, USM with the collaboration and support of TIMENet and Mlabs. The archive can be viewed at www.malaysia.tv 11. APAN CALL FOR PAPERS Call for Proposals - Workshops/Sessions/Papers Asia Pacific Advanced Network Conference 19th APAN Meetings Bangkok, Thailand 24-28 January 2005 12. AUSTALASIA WORKSHOP ON GRID COMPUTING AND E-RESEARCH (AUSGRID 2005) CALL FOR PAPERS To be held in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week Newcastle, Australia, 30 January - 04 February 2005 >. The Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing and its state partners are supporting e-Research by deploying a national grid infrastructure and working to grid-enable applications in areas such as physics, astronomy, chemistry, geoscience, earth sciences and life sciences. The Australian Research Council is also planning to implement an initiative to support e-Research in Australia. Topics of interest for the workshop include: * Grid applications and e-Research. * Grid computing middleware and tools. * Data Grids - applications, middleware, infrastructure, data and metadata management and integration. * Grid infrastructure - experiences with building, managing and using grids. * Grid portals and problem-solving environments. * Grid economy. * Web services and Grid services. * Semantic Web and Semantic Grid. * Collaboration using the Grid and Access Grids. * Performance evaluation and modelling. * Next generation grids. 13. ECAI/DIGITAL LIBRARIES AND DIGITAL COLLECTIONS CALL FOR PAPERS As in past years, ECAI has been invited to host sessions at the annual conference of the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium. This year's conference will be held from 17-22 October 2004 in Taipei, Taiwan at the Academia Sinica. The conference is co-sponsored by PNC and by the Pacific Rim Digital Libraries Association (PRDLA). The theme is Digital Libraries and Digital Collections in the Global Community. More information about the conference may be found at . ECAI invites proposals of papers, poster/demos, and sessions on the following topics: Cultural Atlas Showcase/ECAI Plenary Cultural Atlases in the Classroom Virtual Reality for Cultural Atlases Digital Gazetteers Cultural Atlas Development 14. RELATED MEETINGS - The International Conference on Education and Information Systems: Technologies and Applications EISTA 2004 The Inter-American Organization of Higher Education IOHE Orlando, Florida 21-25 July 2004 - Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA ) 7thWorkshop San Diego, California, USA September 2004 15. COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS Please email Copyright (c) 2004 Association of Pacific Rim Universities. ====================================================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/apru-dli/attachments/20040821/eaa6b822/attachment-0001.html