title: Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
text: The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) is a digital humanities initiative involving numerous academic professors and institutions around the world with the stated goal of creating a networked digital atlas by creating tools and setting standards for dynamic, digital maps.
  
  ECAI was established in 1997 by Emeritus Prof. Lewis Lancaster of the University of California, Berkeley, and has held two meetings per year most years from 1998 - 2009 (ongoing), one of which is often in conjunction with the Pacific Neighbourhood Consortium. The initiative is based at UC Berkeley.
  
  The ECAI 'clearinghouse' of distributed digital datasets was developed from 1998 by the Archaeological Computing Laboratory at the University of Sydney, and uses the ACL's TimeMap software.
  
  See also
  GIS
  Wikimaps
  
  External links
  http://www.ecai.org/
   Historical Geographic Information Systems Online Forum on Google
  
  Cartography organizations
  Geographic information systems organizations
  Digital humanities
  Historical geographic information systems
  University of California, Berkeley
  Research institutes in the San Francisco Bay Area
  Digital humanities projects
  1997 establishments in California