This document summarizes the speaker's past work on cultural portals and outlines challenges and future directions. It discusses two threads of development: (1) a series of Asia-Pacific Education and Research Network Culture and Media Project (APAN ECWG) events and (2) Culturemondo portals launched in various cities. It raises challenges around evaluating, implementing, representing, and facilitating dialogue. Project ideas proposed include raising awareness across Asia-Pacific institutions, hands-on collaboration projects, designing discourse, and creating common grounds. Specific initiatives discussed are a food culture wiki and exploring museums' online presences.

1. e-Culture Status-up +
Past/Future for #CMAP
Shih-Chieh Ilya Li
TELDAP/ Academia Sinica
@ilya, ilya.myid.tw
2010.1.22 at Taipei
Asia-Pacific Cultural Portals Summit

3. “Challenges”
• How to evaluate “dialogue”?
• How to implement “dialogue”?
• How to represent “dialogue”?
• How to facilitate “dialogue”?

4. Two Threads of
Development.
... & Personal Graphical Memories
If I have chance would dev. into Comics

5. Thread 1.
APAN ECWG

6. APAN.sg ECWG 2006

7. APAN.ph ECWG 2007

8. APAN.cn ECWG 2007

9. ALFAE.jp, Nagoya 2008

10. Thread 2.
Culturemondo

11. CM.jp WorldExpo 2005

12. CM.hr Dubrovnik 2006

13. CM.cu Havana 2007

14. CM.tw Taipei 2008

15. CM.nz Wellington 2009

16. What has been here...
• ...Is the accumulation of the countless
streams of dialogue.
• not even mention the dialogue on
twitter ...
• and belongs to anyone who’s participated

17. “Challenges” (again)
• How to evaluate “dialogue”?
• How to implement “dialogue”?
• How to represent “dialogue”?
• How to facilitate “dialogue”?

18. Projecting The Future
• Raising awareness in-between projects /
institutions of Asia-Pacific area
• Developing hands-on projects &
collaboration
• Archives / culture / identity / collab.
• Designing discourse & debate
• Weaving common grounds

19. Food Culture Wiki
• Why food?
• Study into Wikipedia
• Understand how food & culture are
represented, collaboratively created
• Outside of Wikipedia
• Starting from the joint

20. “Museum’ Second Lives”
• “Seeing Thru The Silos: Exploring Museums’
Second Lives” in Asian Digital Culture 2, 2009
• Using theories and 3DI to rediscover the
“archive-user” duplet
• Explaining the “museum-like” behavior
• Reintegrate online digital archive as part of
the digital culture experience
• Connect to Shankar’s talk: “web should be
(an) art (work)”

21. Thank YOU so much.