Digital cities III : information technologies for social capital : cross-cultural perspectives : third International Digital Cities Workshop, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, September 18-19, 2003 : revised selected papers

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. Local Information And Communication Infrastructures : An Introduction / P. Van Den Bessellar -- The Seattle Community Network : Anomaly Or Replicable Model? / D. Schuler -- The Blaksburg Electronic Village : A Study In Community Computing / J.m. Carroll -- The Life And Death Of The Great Amsterdam Digital City / P. Van Den Besselaar And D. Beckers -- Urban Cyberspace As A Social Construction : Non-technological Factors In The Shaping Of Digital Bristol / A. Aurigi -- Virtual Helsinki : Enabling The Citizen -- Linking The Physical And Virtual / R. Linturi And T. Simula -- Digital City Shanghai : Concepts, Foundations, And Current State / P. Ding, D.h. Lin And H.y. Sheng -- Activities And Technologies In Digital City Kyoto / T. Ishida -- World Digital Cities : Beyond Heterogeneity / T. Ishida, A. Aurigi And M. Yasuoka -- Virtual Cities For Real-world Crisis Management / H. Nakanishi, S. Koizumi And T. Ishida --^ Virtuose, A Virtual Community Open Source Engine For Integrating Civic Networks And Digital Cities / M. Benini, F. De Cindio And L. Sonnante -- Talking Digital Cities : Connecting Heterogeneous Digital Cities Via The Universal Mobile Interface / T. Koda, S. Nakawaza And T. Ishida -- Town Digitizing : Omnidirectional Image-based Virtual Space / S. Koizumi And H. Ishiguro -- Articulating The Digital Environment Via Community-generated Ontologies / R. Srinivasan -- Map-based Range Query Processing For Geographic Web Search Systems / R. Lee, H. Shiina, T. Tezuka, Y. Yokota, H. Takakura, Y.j. Kwon And Y. Kambayashi -- Recognizing Buildings Using A Mobile System And A Reference City Model / W. Mai, C. Tweed And G. Dodds -- Querying Multiple Video Streams And Hypermedia Objects Of A Video-based Virtual Space System / Y. Yokota, S. He And Y. Kambayashi -- Cultural User Experience Issues In E-government : Designing For A Multi-cultural Society / N. Van Dam, V. Evers And F.a. Arts --^ Visualizing Social Patterns In Virtual Environments On A Local And Global Scale / K. Borner, S. Penumarthy, B.j. Devarco And C. Kerney -- Participation In Community Systems : Indications For Design / A.j. Reeves And P.g.t. Healey -- Intention And Motive In Information-system Design : Toward A Theory And Method For Assessing Users' Needs / J.p. Zappen And T.m. Harrison -- The Perfections Of Sustainability And Imperfections In The Digital Community : Paradoxes Of Connection And Disconnection / G. Gumpert And S. Drucker -- The Promises And Perils Of Integrated Community Learning Environments / S. Welling And A. Breiter -- Effects Of Ict On Social Cohesion : The Cyburg Case / D. Beckers, W. Van Gent, J. Iedema And J. De Haan -- Citizenship And Digital Media Management / M.r. Balboni And G. Schwartz -- Digital Cities And The Opportunities For Mobilizing The Information Society : Case Studies From Portugal / J.l. Moutinho And M. Heitor. Peter Van Den Besselaar, Satoshi Koizumi (eds.). Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Also Issued Online. Front Matter....Pages - Local Information and Communication Infrastructures: An Introduction....Pages 1-16 The Seattle Community Network: Anomaly or Replicable Model?....Pages 17-42 The Blacksburg Electronic Village: A Study in Community Computing....Pages 43-65 The Life and Death of the Great Amsterdam Digital City....Pages 66-96 Urban Cyberspace as a Social Construction: Non-technological Factors in the Shaping of Digital Bristol....Pages 97-112 Virtual Helsinki: Enabling the Citizen, Linking the Physical and Virtual....Pages 113-140 Digital City Shanghai: Concepts, Foundations, and Current State....Pages 141-165 Activities and Technologies in Digital City Kyoto....Pages 166-187 World Digital Cities: Beyond Heterogeneity....Pages 188-203 Virtual Cities for Real-World Crisis Management....Pages 204-216 Virtuose, a VIRTual CommUnity Open Source Engine for Integrating Civic Networks and Digital Cities....Pages 217-232 Talking Digital Cities: Connecting Heterogeneous Digital Cities Via the Universal Mobile Interface....Pages 233-246 Town Digitizing: Omnidirectional Image-Based Virtual Space....Pages 247-258 Articulating the Digital Environment Via Community-Generated Ontologies....Pages 259-273 Map-Based Range Query Processing for Geographic Web Search Systems....Pages 274-283 Recognizing Buildings Using a Mobile System and a Reference City Model....Pages 284-298 Querying Multiple Video Streams and Hypermedia Objects of a Video-Based Virtual Space System....Pages 299-309 Cultural User Experience Issues in E-government: Designing for a Multi-cultural Society....Pages 310-324 Visualizing Social Patterns in Virtual Environments on a Local and Global Scale....Pages 325-340 Participation in Community Systems: Indications for Design....Pages 341-353 Intention and Motive in Information-System Design: Toward a Theory and Method for Assessing Users’ Needs....Pages 354-368 The Perfections of Sustainability and Imperfections in the Digital Community: Paradoxes of Connection and Disconnection....Pages 369-379 The Promises and Perils of Integrated Community Learning Environments....Pages 380-390 Effects of ICT on Social Cohesion: The Cyburg Case....Pages 391-406 Citizenship and Digital Media Management....Pages 407-416 Digital Cities and the Opportunities for Mobilizing the Information Society: Case Studies from Portugal....Pages 417-436 Back Matter....Pages - Annotation This book presents revised full papers contributed to the Third International Digital Cities Workshop held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in September 2003. The 25 papers presented together with an introductory overview went through two rounds of reviewing and improvement. They are organized in topical sections on digital cities around the world: case studies; virtual community platforms; knowledge and data modeling for digital cities; participation, design, and monitoring; information and communications technology and social capital The chapters in this book describe and analyze a large variety of digital city experiments that have been carried out during the last decade.