EBTI Conference Trip
My trip to Taiwan was hosted by the Electronic Buddhist Text Initiative (EBTI), a group dealing with issues of input, preservation, organization and access of digital research data for use in the humanities fields, especially in the area of Buddhist studies.
The fifth meeting of the EBTI was held as a joint conference with the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC), Scholars Engaged in Electronic Resources (SEER) and the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI). The theme of the presentations was the use of computer and Internet technology in many different areas of Asian culture, science, and history. Topics included XML, GIS, scanning, Unicode and font extensions. The conference was held at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, January 18-21, 1999. There were quite a few corporate sponsors, and one of the keynotes was by Roy Weber, one of the inventors of 800 number service, now with AT&T Research Labs.
There were many EBTI presentations, relating to texts, archives and dictionaries. My presentation "Tibetan For Windows - Software Development and Future Speculations" (slides and paper) was about my Tibetan word processing package. For me, the conference was an amazing chance to actually meet most of the (very few) people working in the area of Tibetan computing.
Following the conference, I visited some interesting places in Taipei. The following links have a few of my photos: