Bamiyan Development Community Portal

About Afghanistan

• Afghanistan Cultural Heritage
• Afghanistan Information Management Service
• ALOV Map
• AsiaSource Interview with Nancy Hatch Dupree
• Book: Tony Kushner: Homebody/Kabul 2002

Community development links

• Jonas Jacobi's JSF, ADF Faces and ADF UIX blog
• Swing or Java Server Faces

Communities:

Digital Culture

• AIS Special Interest Group on e-Culture
• Archives & Museum Informatics
• CIDOC
• CIPA Heritage Documentation
• EPOCH
• ICHIM
• Institution of Historic Building Conservation UK (IHBC)
• mda
• English Heritage
• Heritage Alive
• Mobile Digital Commons Network
• minerva

Tourism

• EU Enterprise and Industry Tourism
• eReview of Tourism Research (eRTR)
• Open Tourism Consortium
• World Travel & Tourism Council
• eCommerce and Travel Research Lab
• Minerva
• Travel and Tourism Research Association

Spatial

• Center for Spatial Integrated Social Science
• Urban and Regional Information Systems Association

eCommerce

• A list of ec journal

Standards:

Metadata Standards for Cultural Heritage

• CATEGORIES FOR THE DESCRIPTION OF WORKS OF ART (CDWA)
• ICOMOS-CIDOC, CIDOC CRM
• CIMI(out-of-date)
• Dublin Core
• Encoded Archival Description
• MARC 21/USMARC
• mda SPECTRUM
• CHIN metadata standards for museum cataloguing
• MIDAS Heritage: the UK Historic Environment Data Standard
• Object ID and Core Data Index/Standard
• VRA Core Categories and Cataloguing Cultural Objects (CCO)

Summary of Standards

• Museum metadata standards
• Metadata standards crosswalks
• Multiple metadata crosswalks (Kent State University)

Literatures:

Jounals

• Annals of tourism research, Elsevier Ltd.
• Journal of Travel Research, Sage Publications Inc.
• Journal of Vacation Marketing, Sage Publication Inc.
• World Tourism Barometer, World Tourism Organization.
• Tourism Management, Elsevier Ltd.
• Information Technology and Tourism, Cognizant, USA

Conferences

• ECDL -Research and advanced technology for digital libraries. European conference
• Münsteraner GI-Tage (2005 ...)
• Int’l Conference Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism (ENTER 1999 - 2005), Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany.
• ACM GIS
• VAST: International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Intelligent Cultural Heritage
• Museum and the Web - the international coference for culture and heritage online

Books

• Buhalis, Dimitrios: Etourism, Pearson Higher Education, 2002.
• Werthner, H. and Klein, S.: Information Technology and Tourism – A Challenging Relationship, Springer Verlag, Wien, NY, 1999.
• Minerva Working Group5 (eds.):|Handbook for quality in cultural Web sites, Version 1.2, Nov. 2003.
• Andrienko, Natalia, Andrienko, Gennady: Exploratory Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Data - A Systematic Approach, Springer, 2006.

Projects and Systems

• Cultural Tourism/Conservation
• Eternal Egypt(by Cultnat and IBM)
• SBG system
• MEDINA
• The World Heritage Tour (WHTour)
• MIP@Berkeley
• Digital Locations
• Digital Thailand
• Community GIS in Mumbai proposal and Mumbai Free Map
• London FreeMap

Blogs (Personal Homepages)

• Geography:Dr. Sabine Timpf- Department of Geography University of Zurich
• Metadata:Adam Mathes- Computer Mediated Communication, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign