2018 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference and Joint Meetings (PNC)最新文献

{"title":"Cyberspace, Heritage Conservation and Poets' Place in Taiwan","authors":"W. Cheang, Kuo-sheng Chang, Eileen Hung","doi":"10.23919/PNC.2018.8579463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PNC.2018.8579463","url":null,"abstract":"The advent of computers, digital data, Internet and cyberspace, which allows information to be accessed and diffused with ease, has posed a serious threat, as many people believe, to a traditional carrier of knowledge and an important constituent of cultural heritage—published books on paper. In Taiwan, the decline in bookstore sales and the closing down of more and more traditional bookstores in recent years have been greeted with alarm. Many people worry that this phenomenon signifies a drop in reading population, which means a weakening of cultural power. This paper reconsiders this seemingly alarming phenomenon by reviewing literature production and consumption in Taiwan's market. Theory-wise, it takes Greek philosopher's debate over the place of poets—Plato's denouncement of poets in The Republic, and Aristotle's defense of poets in Poetics, as a point of departure to scrutinize the role of poetic productions from ancient times to modern era. It analyzes how realistic considerations related to politics and business profits could seemingly marginalize poetic productions. Nevertheless, it proposes that cumbersome poetic works printed on paper will not be obsolete in the immediate future as long as people who have grown up reading books have not extinct. Moreover, it makes an analogy between the present phenomenon under discussion and the serious threat to traditional theaters posed by movies, which never wipe the former out. Case-wise, the paper discusses three contemporary Taiwanese authors, Giddens Ke, Chiou-yuan Lu and Lisa Liu, whose fame was established in the Internet before their books were published. The paper attempts to demonstrate that their popularity in cyberspace led to the publication of their books, which sold well in the market. It argues that cyberspace may not be a terminator of physical books when it comes to poetic productions. Readers and lovers of fictions are being drawn back to the book market where their favorite authors in cyberspace have published. Therefore, even though the medium may change from paper to digitalized formats or vice versa, poets still have a place in Taiwan. Poetic productions, as cultural items constituting a corpus of cultural heritage, may transform into digitalized formats, but their nature or essence would continue beyond the limitations of formats, just as poetic productions can transcend the limitation of reality to create fictive worlds that give pleasure to their readers.","PeriodicalId":409931,"journal":{"name":"2018 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference and Joint Meetings (PNC)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129724727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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{"title":"Towards a More Complete “National Memory”: Taiwan Memory and Taiwan Memory Online Exhibitions and Management System Project as Example","authors":"Shu-Fen Hung","doi":"10.23919/PNC.2018.8579458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PNC.2018.8579458","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the author firstly tried to define conceptually about a so-called ‘national memory’, and to discuss the ideology for the assertion. Then, taking the Taiwan Memory Online Exhibition and Management System Project as an example, the author introduced how the National Central Library (NCL hereafter) carried out the preliminary outcome of the project, the major concern in planning of the functionalities and the Website's presentations, and the mechanism utilized to ensure cost-effectiveness and correctness in realization of some valuable core theories of library science. The following topics regarding the initiation and the follow-up development of this project were covered and discussed in the paper: 1. Discussions on formation of a so-called ‘national memory’ 2. Purposes of the project 3. The long-term development plan of the project 4. Strategic plan for content development for topical articles 5. Core theories of library sciences and system goals 6. Considerations for the Website design for this project and the associated approach 7. Creative technical methodology for the enhancement of metadata records and its benefit In summary, it is planned that the Taiwan Memory Online Exhibitions will be series of topical presentations, accompanied with a friendly touch-screen browsing interface for thematic collection(s) from Taiwan Memory. It is possible to re-use anyone of the topical/thematic exhibitions in a physical site. Besides, as resources in this exhibitions and management system had been well indexed from different properties, it is also possible to filter out additional specific thematic collections for other exhibition needs. The creative technical methodology, i.e., automatic terms inputting method, was practically used in construction of layered subject fields and ethnic groups' names, and has been estimated to have saved three fourth of time and cost needed in constructing these columns. It is hoped that in the future, the Taiwan Memory Online Exhibition project could get more collaboration from researchers, scholars, and educators so that the utmost goal of the Taiwan Memory as a ‘national memory’ could be achieved.","PeriodicalId":409931,"journal":{"name":"2018 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference and Joint Meetings (PNC)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124880720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Management of Biodiversity Conservation Based on Genetic Diversity in Ecological and Agricultural Restoration","authors":"Y. Chiang, Y. Ko, Hsueh-Yu Lu, Xiao-Lei Jin, T. Hsu","doi":"10.23919/PNC.2018.8579457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PNC.2018.8579457","url":null,"abstract":"In the past decades, human activities and extreme climate change by global warming have caused severe declines in wild populations of endemic taxa in island habitats. For example, the common wild rice, Oryza rufipogon, is wild extinction in Taiwan Island. In the glacial and post glacial period, climate change and sea level change effect the distribution of plants and animals, the different species showed variant patterns of phytogeography in the postglacial East and South Asia. Taiwan Island located at the middle of West-Pacific archipelago which have more than 20% plants are endemic species. Moreover, the high ratio of endemic species in Taiwan are evaluated as threatened species or wild extinction in the past decades because of the extreme climate change by global warming which including Cycas taitungensis, Amentotaxus formosana, Keteleeria davidiana var. formosana, Oryza rufipogon, etc. In here, we used different case studies to discuss the phytogeographic patterns of different species affected by glacial and human activities. The loss of genetic diversity bring the risk of serious evolutionary consequences, both from recent adaptations on oceanic islands and from longer-term interactions with other organisms. In this study, we used the population genetics based on molecular markers to evaluate the genetic diversity, population differentiation and species divergence. The analysis of multilocus genome-wide markers was conducted with several specific goals: (1) to evaluate the population genetic variation of the remaining wild populations, (2) to evaluate the spatial grouping and genetic hotspots of the populations based on the assignment test, (3) to identify distinct genetic units for in situ and ex situ conservation management in ecological restoration.","PeriodicalId":409931,"journal":{"name":"2018 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference and Joint Meetings (PNC)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127592098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gyrolog — Towards VR Preservations of Gyro Instruments for Historical and Didactical Research","authors":"D. Fritsch, Jörg F. Wagner, S. Simon, Beate Ceranski, Maria Niklaus, Kun Zhan, Timo Schweizer, Zhe Wang","doi":"10.23919/PNC.2018.8579456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PNC.2018.8579456","url":null,"abstract":"Instruments for routing and navigation, such as gyroscopes of various designs, have been used to complement the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) for more than three decades. Nowadays, Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs), also called Inertial Navigation Systems (INSs) can be used standalone or be integrated with GNSS and other sensors. For example, nearly all smartphones are now equipped with MEMS gyroscopes. The University of Stuttgart maintains a huge collection of gyroscopes, representing all historical rotating mass principles. These objects form an integral part of our technological heritage. Thus, the Gyrolog project aims to preserve these devices by recreating them in Virtual Reality (VR). The features and objects under investigation have highly complex structures, which creates difficulties when attempting to recreate them as 3D models. Within the Gyrolog project, multiple methods such as photogrammetry, endoscopy and computed tomography are utilized for creating optimized 3D models. In addition, the integrated 3D models will be vectorized for VR/AR (virtual reality/augmented reality) environments. Finally, the 3D VR and AR preserved gyros are used for historical and didactical research purposes.","PeriodicalId":409931,"journal":{"name":"2018 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference and Joint Meetings (PNC)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129839550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Building an Ontology-Oriented Archaeological Knowledge-Base “ArcOnBase” in Mainland Southeast Asia","authors":"Mamoru Shibayama, S. Morimoto, Akiko Tashiro, Akihiro Kameda, Taizo Yamada, S. Hara","doi":"10.23919/PNC.2018.8579462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PNC.2018.8579462","url":null,"abstract":"Using archaeological site data for Mainland Southeast Asia, this study aims to develop a knowledge-base and systemize ontology-oriented knowledge for site/artifact data. The description of site/artifact data with metainformation in general is extremely difficult in terms of standardization, and neither effective nor integrated management is possible using relational databases during recording/management, surveying/verification, or publication/feedback. Therefore, using site data (approx. 14,000 data points) on Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia, this study is to attempt the structuring/systemization of knowledge through morphological or network analysis of description data, and is to build the knowledge-base ArcOnBase using this structured knowledge. This empirical study will build a knowledge-base, making it possible to search data family that are semantically related in terms, for example, of characteristics and similarities such as regional characteristics and historical investigations, religion, ethnicity, government, and trade, and also includes the capability of accumulating newly derived knowledge. The study will contribute to the formulation of principles for sharing of resources related to cultural asset and heritage information.","PeriodicalId":409931,"journal":{"name":"2018 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference and Joint Meetings (PNC)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130805977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Robot Indoor Navigation Using Visible Light Communication","authors":"Y. Hsueh, P. Su, Yi-Fong Lin, Hsin-Han Huang, Ting-Chun Liu","doi":"10.23919/PNC.2018.8579454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PNC.2018.8579454","url":null,"abstract":"This work developed a robot indoor navigation system using visible light communication (VLC) technique. The movement direction of the robot is followed by the movement control signal transmitted from each VLC LED Lamp. The route planning system calculates the path from the user's location and the destination and the selected points, and based on the user's setting is shortest distance or priority path. The system contains several VLC LED Lamps, a VLC robot, a smart phone with Robot control App, and a server.","PeriodicalId":409931,"journal":{"name":"2018 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference and Joint Meetings (PNC)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124213896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Conflict Between Privacy and Scientific Research in the GDPR","authors":"Jan Meszaros","doi":"10.23919/PNC.2018.8579471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PNC.2018.8579471","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most important goals of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is to protect the data subject's privacy in the online environment where there is a significant imbalance between the users and the data controllers. To achieve this goal, the GDPR requires stronger consent to protect the data subjects and introduced new rights, such as the right to be forgotten and data portability. The new and stronger rights in the earlier drafts of the GDPR would have significantly restricted the data processing activities not just for the online services (e.g., Google, Facebook, Twitter), but for all the other data controllers. Furthermore, the planned strict rules could have been a considerable burden, especially for the entities processing sensitive data, such as research institutes and pharmaceutical companies. It became clear at the later stages of the drafting period that the new rules aiming at the online environment could also hamper the scientific research and technological developments. The analysis of large datasets (big data) seemed also challenging by the earlier drafts of the GDPR. A compromise was necessary between the data subject's new and stronger rights and the researchers' interests if the EU did not want to fall back with the innovation, especially in the field of technological developments and biomedical research. These reasons led to the involvement of pseudonymisation, statistical and scientific research exemptions in the final version of the GDPR.","PeriodicalId":409931,"journal":{"name":"2018 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference and Joint Meetings (PNC)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123351085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Human Flesh Search and a Case of Sexual Assault in Taiwan: A Call for Interdisciplinary Collaborations","authors":"Pi-Chi Han","doi":"10.23919/PNC.2018.8579469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PNC.2018.8579469","url":null,"abstract":"The digital revolution facilitates a prominent feature of public engagement with the Internet. Human flesh search (HFS) is called \"cyber manhunt\" or \"cyber crowdsourcing\". It has autonomous and collective nature and action. Many scholars proclaimed that HFS is considered as a unique online phenomenon in the Greater China region. A promising female writer committed suicide due to her teacher's sexual assault when she was a teenager, which has provoked an intensive cyber debate and HFS in Taiwan. HFS worked like police-netizens, tracked down the perpetrator, and pushed the lawmakers to institute legal mechanism. The implications for interdisciplinary collaborations were reviewed.","PeriodicalId":409931,"journal":{"name":"2018 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference and Joint Meetings (PNC)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127252148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"GIS Derived Viewsheds of Mountaintop Tombs in Western Tibet: A Preliminary Survey","authors":"K. Ryavec","doi":"10.23919/PNC.2018.8579467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PNC.2018.8579467","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines 31 Cubic Mountaintop Tombs in Western Tibet with GIS-derived Viewsheds. The purpose of this preliminary survey is to determine if this unique type of tomb found only on this part of the Tibetan Plateau and believed to date from the Bronze to Iron Ages was constructed and designed to be seen by passers-by below or were they intended to be hidden from view. This preliminary survey represents the first such effort to utilize Digital Elevation Models (DEM) in constructing Viewsheds of archaeological sites on the Tibetan Plateau. Initial findings indicate one Mountaintop Tomb was constructed in a location visible to both passers-by below and the highest local mountain peak.","PeriodicalId":409931,"journal":{"name":"2018 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference and Joint Meetings (PNC)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132149157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}