Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
http://www.ecai.org/

Based at the University of California, Berkeley, the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) is a “global consortium of people who share the vision of creating a distributed virtual library of cultural information with a time and place interface.” While visitors can elect to read about the technical aspects of working on such ambitious efforts, many will want to look at the “Cultural Atlas Portal” to get a start on things. Visitors will find that the Portal contains an interactive map of the world which can be used to look for materials from Australia to North America. These cultural atlases include projects like “The Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project” and “Mapping St. Petersburg”. After looking over a few of these projects, visitors may wish to click on the “Community” area. Here they can learn how to contribute their own projects to ECAI or how to work with partner institutions to create a new piece of work, visitors can also find out about ongoing projects around the globe. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout 1994-2008. http://scout.wisc.edu/]