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| − | {{Wiki|Professor}} Lancaster is the founder and Director of the Electronic {{Wiki|Cultural}} Atlas Initiative (ECAI). ECAI (www.ecai.org) is promoting worldwide electronic access to quality research {{Wiki|data}}. ECAI is a partnership of technical specialists and the [[scholarly]] community dedicated to the support of {{Wiki|scholarship}} through technology. ECAI is building an infrastructure for retrieval of {{Wiki|data}} over the Internet from servers located anywhere in the [[world]]. Guided by the {{Wiki|paradigm}} of the historical atlas, research {{Wiki|data}} is indexed by [[time]] and place using temporally-enabled Geographic [[Information]] Systems {{Wiki|software}}. User queries retrieve and display {{Wiki|data}} in GIS layers on a map-based interface, allowing comparisons across [[discipline]], region, and [[time]]. | + | |
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| + | [[Lewis Lancaster]], is a {{Wiki|professor}} {{Wiki|emeritus}} in the Department of {{Wiki|East Asian}} [[Languages]] at the {{Wiki|University of California at Berkeley}} and has been an adjunct {{Wiki|professor}} at UWest since 1992, a specialist in the canons of [[Buddhist texts]]. | ||
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| + | He was the first [[student]] to complete the {{Wiki|Ph.D.}} in [[Buddhist Studies]] at the {{Wiki|University}} of Wisconsin. | ||
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| + | He [[taught]] at the {{Wiki|University of California}}, {{Wiki|Berkeley}}, for 33 years, with five years as Chair. | ||
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| + | By means of a grant from the [[National Geographic]] {{Wiki|Society}}, he and a group of students and [[faculty]] inventoried texts in [[monasteries]] among the {{Wiki|Sherpa}} [[people]] in the [[Himalayas]]. | ||
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| + | He then began to research the problems of converting [[Buddhist texts]] from [[Pali]] and {{Wiki|Chinese}} into {{Wiki|computer}} format, which resulted in major CD ROM databases. | ||
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| + | That {{Wiki|computer}} [[experience]] then led him to [[form]] an association of [[scholars]] called the Electronic {{Wiki|Cultural}} Atlas Initiative, which is housed on the {{Wiki|Berkeley}} campus and has a thousand affiliates worldwide. | ||
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| + | He is now [[President]] at Hsilai {{Wiki|University}} in Rosemead. [[Dr. Lancaster]] has published over 55 articles and reviews and has edited or authored numerous [[books]] including [[Prajnaparamita]] and Related Systems, | ||
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| + | The [[Korean]] [[Buddhist Canon]], [[Buddhist Scriptures]], Early [[Ch'an]] in [[China]] and [[Tibet]], and Assimilation of [[Buddhism]] in [[Korea]]. | ||
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| + | {{Wiki|Professor}} Lancaster is the founder and Director of the Electronic {{Wiki|Cultural}} Atlas Initiative (ECAI). ECAI (www.ecai.org) is promoting worldwide electronic access to [[quality]] research {{Wiki|data}}. | ||
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| + | ECAI is a partnership of technical specialists and the [[scholarly]] {{Wiki|community}} dedicated to the support of {{Wiki|scholarship}} through technology. | ||
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| + | ECAI is building an infrastructure for retrieval of {{Wiki|data}} over the Internet from servers located anywhere in the [[world]]. | ||
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| + | Guided by the {{Wiki|paradigm}} of the historical atlas, research {{Wiki|data}} is indexed by [[time]] and place using temporally-enabled Geographic [[Information]] Systems {{Wiki|software}}. | ||
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| + | User queries retrieve and display {{Wiki|data}} in GIS layers on a map-based interface, allowing comparisons across [[discipline]], region, and [[time]]. | ||
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Revision as of 17:14, 17 November 2015
Lewis Lancaster, is a professor emeritus in the Department of East Asian Languages at the University of California at Berkeley and has been an adjunct professor at UWest since 1992, a specialist in the canons of Buddhist texts.
He was the first student to complete the Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies at the University of Wisconsin.
He taught at the University of California, Berkeley, for 33 years, with five years as Chair.
By means of a grant from the National Geographic Society, he and a group of students and faculty inventoried texts in monasteries among the Sherpa people in the Himalayas.
He then began to research the problems of converting Buddhist texts from Pali and Chinese into computer format, which resulted in major CD ROM databases.
That computer experience then led him to form an association of scholars called the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, which is housed on the Berkeley campus and has a thousand affiliates worldwide.
He is now President at Hsilai University in Rosemead. Dr. Lancaster has published over 55 articles and reviews and has edited or authored numerous books including Prajnaparamita and Related Systems,
The Korean Buddhist Canon, Buddhist Scriptures, Early Ch'an in China and Tibet, and Assimilation of Buddhism in Korea.
Professor Lancaster is the founder and Director of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI). ECAI (www.ecai.org) is promoting worldwide electronic access to quality research data.
ECAI is a partnership of technical specialists and the scholarly community dedicated to the support of scholarship through technology.
ECAI is building an infrastructure for retrieval of data over the Internet from servers located anywhere in the world.
Guided by the paradigm of the historical atlas, research data is indexed by time and place using temporally-enabled Geographic Information Systems software.
User queries retrieve and display data in GIS layers on a map-based interface, allowing comparisons across discipline, region, and time.
