An important cultural and technological event, the “Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference,” attended by a large number of humanities, social studies and IT scholars from Taiwan and overseas, came to a successful conclusion on October 8. During the three day conference, scholars from different disciplines put forward numerous observations relating to digital archives, e-learning, GIS, Social Computing, e-Culture etc. Liu Chao-han President of Academia Sinica presented a speech during the opening and closing ceremonies and, during the conference, Academia Sinica President Liu Ts’ui-jung shared his views on the influence of digital archives and e-learning on humanities and social studies research and on society, receiving a very positive response from the attending scholars.