HUNAGI among the Affiliates of ECAI

Globe in the Library of the Archabbey of Pannonhalma. Image: HUNAGI Visuals resource, 2007

From our daily mail: Co-Chair Prof.Dr.Michael Buckland welcomed representative of HUNAGI among the affiliates of the distinghuised community of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI):
http://ecai.org/members/memberprofile.asp?AffiliateID=1275
The URLs say "members" but that is a misleading term, and we now say "affiliate" which makes it clearer that there is some shared interestbut no obligation or commitment involved - wrote Professor Buckland in his letter today. HUNAGI will arrange the set up of a HistoryGIS Task Force with link to ECAI inviting experts, researchers and PhD students of acknowledged Hungarian workshops such as the ELTE Chair of Cartographic Science and Geoinformatics, Institute of Historical Science of the Hungarian Academy of Science, Faculty of Geoinformatics, West Hungary University.

" My colleague Professor Ray Larson, who handles the information retrieval aspects of our work and has published research on the ranking of geo-spatial data in retrieval systems, will be in Budapest in mid-September for the European Conference on Digital Libraries (Sept 16-21) http://www.ecdl2007.org/index.php and the Cross Language [Information Retrieval] Evaluation Forum, 19-21 September, where he is one of the organizers of the Cross-Language Geographical Information Retrieval (GeoCLEF) track " Professor Buckland wrote. This will give the opportunity to meet and share views and submit information on the achieved Hungarian results, ongoing activities and/or planned actions.