Digital Cities III. Information Technologies for Social Capital: Cross-cultural Perspectives

1. Front Matter

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2. Local Information and Communication Infrastructures: An Introduction

   1. Local Information and Communication Infrastructures: An Introduction

      • Peter van den Besselaar

      Pages 1-16

3. Part I Digital Cities Around the World: Case Studies

   1. The Seattle Community Network: Anomaly or Replicable Model?

      • Douglas Schuler

      Pages 17-42

   2. The Blacksburg Electronic Village: A Study in Community Computing

      • John M. Carroll

      Pages 43-65

   3. The Life and Death of the Great Amsterdam Digital City

      • Peter van den Besselaar, Dennis Beckers

      Pages 66-96

   4. Urban Cyberspace as a Social Construction: Non-technological Factors in the Shaping of Digital Bristol

      • Alessandro Aurigi

      Pages 97-112

   5. Virtual Helsinki: Enabling the Citizen, Linking the Physical and Virtual

      • Risto Linturi, Timo Simula

      Pages 113-140

   6. Digital City Shanghai: Concepts, Foundations, and Current State

      • Peng Ding, DongHui Lin, HuanYe Sheng

      Pages 141-165

   7. Activities and Technologies in Digital City Kyoto

      • Toru Ishida

      Pages 166-187

   8. World Digital Cities: Beyond Heterogeneity

      • Toru Ishida, Alessandro Aurigi, Mika Yasuoka

      Pages 188-203

4. Part II Virtual Community Platforms

   1. Virtual Cities for Real-World Crisis Management

      • Hideyuki Nakanishi, Satoshi Koizumi, Toru Ishida

      Pages 204-216

   2. Virtuose, a VIRTual CommUnity Open Source Engine for Integrating Civic Networks and Digital Cities

      • Marco Benini, Fiorella De Cindio, Leonardo Sonnante

      Pages 217-232

   3. Talking Digital Cities: Connecting Heterogeneous Digital Cities Via the Universal Mobile Interface

      • Tomoko Koda, Satoshi Nakazawa, Toru Ishida

      Pages 233-246

   4. Town Digitizing: Omnidirectional Image-Based Virtual Space

      • Satoshi Koizumi, Hiroshi Ishiguro

      Pages 247-258

5. Part III Knowledge and Data Modeling for Digital Cities

   1. Articulating the Digital Environment Via Community-Generated Ontologies

      • Ramesh Srinivasan

      Pages 259-273

   2. Map-Based Range Query Processing for Geographic Web Search Systems

      • R. Lee, H. Shiina, T. Tezuka, Y. Yokota, H. Takakura, Y. J. Kwon et al.

      Pages 274-283

   3. Recognizing Buildings Using a Mobile System and a Reference City Model

      • Wanji Mai, Chris Tweed, Gordon Dodds

      Pages 284-298

   4. Querying Multiple Video Streams and Hypermedia Objects of a Video-Based Virtual Space System

      • Yusuke Yokota, Shumian He, Yahiko Kambayashi

      Pages 299-309

6. Part IV Participation, Design, Monitoring

   1. Cultural User Experience Issues in E-government: Designing for a Multi-cultural Society

      • Nik van Dam, Vanessa Evers, Florann A. Arts

      Pages 310-324

   2. Visualizing Social Patterns in Virtual Environments on a Local and Global Scale

      • Katy Börner, Shashikant Penumarthy, Bonnie Jean DeVarco, Carol Kerney

      Pages 325-340

Digital cities constitutes a multidisciplinary field of research and development, where researchers, designers and developers of communityware interact and collaborate with social scientists studying the use and effects of these kinds of infrastructures and systems in their local application context. The field is rather young. After the diffusion of ICT in the world of organizations and companies, ICT entered everyday life. And this also influenced ICT research and development. The 1998 Workshop on Communityware and Social Interaction in Kyoto was an early meeting in which this emerging field was discussed. After that, two subsequent Digital Cities workshops were organized in Kyoto, and a third one in Amsterdam. This book is the result of the 3rd Workshop on Digital Cities, which took place September 18–19, 2003 in Amsterdam, in conjunction with the 1st Communities and Technologies Conference. Most of the papers were presented at this workshop, and were revised thoroughly afterwards. Also the case studies of digital cities in Asia, the US, and Europe, included in Part I, were direct offsprings of the Digital Cities Workshops. Together the papers in this volume give an interesting state-of-the-art overview of the field. In total 54 authors from the Americas, from Asia, and from Europe were contributed to this volume. The authors come from Brazil (two), the USA (eleven), China (three), Japan (fourteen), Finland (two), Germany (two), Italy (three), Portugal (two), the Netherlands (eight), and the UK (seven), indicating the international nature of the research field.

• Community
• Cyberspace
• E-Government
• Open Source
• Web
• communication
• community networks
• communityware
• digital
• digital cities
• digital communities
• electronic village
• information society
• mobile systems
• social interaction

• Amsterdam School of Communication Research, ASCoR, University of Amsterdam & Department of Social Sciences, NIWI, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Peter Besselaar

• Digital City Research Center, JST CREST, Kawaramachi, Kyoto, Japan

  Satoshi Koizumi

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