The long term goal of ECAI is to improve the creation, access, preservation and use of digital resources pertaining to art, culture and history that will invigorate teaching, research and service in a way that transcends any single discipline or approach. The work of ECAI is directed toward the integration of information technology research with humanities teaching andscholarship;
providing expertise and training for faculty and graduate students in the humanities, while suggesting new research and development challenges for librarians, graduate students and faculty in information technology fields.
The ECAI strategies and technologies use the categories of time and space to discover, organize, integrate, visualize and use digital culturalresources.
Time and space are inclusive organizing principles that offer scholars, teachers, students and others the chance to work simultaneously with content from around the world regardless of differences in format, language and content. A focus on time and space also allows scholars and students in the humanities and information technology to take advantage of important emerging analytical approaches and develop new research questions.