1. e-Culture Workshop 24th APAN Meetings 11:00-17:30 30 th August 2007 Xi’an, China

2. Today’s presentations Session 1: Digital SilkRoads and the Angkor Road (30 August 2007 11:00-12:30) Chair: Yoshinori Sato, Professor, Tohoku-Gakuin University, Japan Sub Session -Digital Silk Roads- Title: Digital SilkRoads Project: Current Status and Future Perspectives Speaker: Kinjo Ono Professor Emeritus, Professor(Special Appointment for Digital Silk Roads) of NII(National Institute of Informatics) Visiting Professor of Waseda University Title: Development of Chinese Access and Search System for the Digital Silkroad Project Speaker: Tao Zhang Associate Professor, Dept.of Automation, Tsinghua University Title: Enhancing Applications of the Digital Archive for Silk Road Studies Speaker: Makiko Onishi Project Researcher(PostDoctorial Researcher) NII(National Institute of Informatics) Title: Living Angkor Road Speaker: Surat Lertlum, Ph.d. Program Head, Computer Science Program Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy, Thailand Demonstration: 10:35 11: 00 Session Break

3. Today’s presentations Session 2 Toward a New Perspective of e-Culture (30 August 2007 14:00-15:30) Chair: Takaharu Kameoka, Professor, Mie University, Japan 1. Dancing across the Oceans: DancingQ (Remote Speaker from Korea) Speaker: Dae Young KIM, ANF/CNU 2 Korean Internet History Cyber Museum Speaker: Joohee Suh & Myungkoo KANG, Department of Communication College of Social Sciences, Seoul National University, South Korea 3. Participatory Media and e-Culture - How the Present Information is Aggregated and Archived in "Digital Typhoon" Website? - Speaker: KITAMOTO, Asanobu, Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division, Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS), National Institute of Informatics (NII) 4. WebGIS and High-resolution Images (Demonstration) Speaker: Hiroshi Ono, CONTENTS Co., Ltd, Japan 15:30 16: 00 Session Break

4. Today’s presentations Joint meeting of e-Culture WG & Agriculture WG (30 August 2007 16:00-17:30) Chairs: Takaharu Kameoka, e-Culture WG Masayuki Hirafuji, Agriculture WG Theme1:Distance learning by School of Internet (SOI) Asia 1. Introductory Presentation Sayaka Fukuda SOI Asia Project Asia SEED, Bangkok, Thailand 2. Related Presentation (Remote speaker from New York) Buenafe Abdon, PhD Student Advanced Agricultural Technology & Sciences Graduate School of Life & Environmental Sciences University of Tsukuba, Japan Theme2: Food Cultural Database

5. Takaharu Kameoka Mie University JAPAN e-Culture and Xi’an

6. Keyword is “Silk Road” The Silk Road, or Silk Route, is an interconnected series of ancient trade routes through various regions of the Asian continent mainly connecting Chang'an (today's Xi'an) in China.

7. Digital Silk Roads Project: –In cooperation with UNESCO –International joint research project at NII (National Institute of Informatics) –From April 2001 Project leader: –Kinjo Ono Professor Professor Emeritus (Special Appointment for Digital Silk Roads) of NII Visiting Professor of Waseda University Silk Road Sub session