Dynamics of Interface Societies in Maritime Southeast Asia: An Approach from Area Infomatics

该项目旨在通过区域信息学的方法研究界面社会的动态，以便在目前尝试的基础上，在不久的将来建立东南亚海事信息学。在该项目中，成员1）系统地收集和整合了印度尼西亚、马来西亚和菲律宾等海洋民族的人口普查或地理信息等数据，（2）编制了有关海事界人士组成的界面社会的数据库和案例研究;（3）为东南亚海事信息学的方法论途径奠定了基础;（4）利用信息学数据展示民族志产品。

The project aimed at examining dynamics of interface societies through an approach from Area Infomatics in order to establish, based on the present attempt, Southeast Asian Maritime Infomatics in near future. It focused on the Sama-Bajau as maritime folks and their population flow, resource exploitation and inter-ethnic relations.In the project, members 1) systematically collected and integrated data such as demographic censuses or geographic information of the maritime folks in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, 2) compiled database and case studies on the interface societies formed by the maritime folks 3) made a foundation of methodological approaches of Southeast Asian Maritime Infomatics, and 4) showed the ethnographic products using the data of the informatics.