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e-Arts and HumanitiesScoping an e-Science Agenda
Sheila Anderson
Arts and Humanities Data Service
King’s College London
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e-Arts and Humanities• e-Science is about an enabling infrastructure –
tools , technologies, computing power etc. – supporting research
• We have defined it as: the development and deployment of a networked infrastructure and culture through which resources – be they processing power, data, expertise, or person power – can be shared in a secure environment, and in which new forms of collaboration can emerge, and new and advanced methodologies explored
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Aims and Objectives• Raise awareness and understanding of e-
science, and how e-science might relate to and support the different disciplines within the arts and humanities
• Enable scholars engaging with ICT in their research practice to find about and take advantage of the outputs and tools arising from the e-science and e-social science programmes
• Assist the AHRC in the development of an arts and humanities e-Science research agenda
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The Scoping Survey• Scoping survey methodology
– Identify, collate and analyse information on e-science technologies, projects and outputs
– Match these against methods and challenges for research practice in the arts and humanities – this done through a series of expert seminars
– Dissemination to a wider community for comment and to raise awareness
– Create an on-line information base for consultation by arts and humanities scholars
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Expert Seminars key to this process
• Exchange ideas and knowledge• Identify use of ICT in research practice and ‘grand
challenges and opportunities’• Identify e-Science potential• Identify priority areas for research and practice• Recommendations for future action
– Priorities for research
– Priorities for tools development
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Based around subject domain
• Library and Information Studies – Melissa Terras• Archaeology – William Kilbride• Literary and Textual Studies – Peter Robinson• History – Mark Greengrass• Visual Arts – Sue Gollifer• Performing Arts – Angela Picini • Linguistics and Languages – Paul Rayson
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Format of the Seminars
• Driven from research needs and research practice• Identify ICT use• Identify ‘Grand Challenges’• Identify where e-Science might help address the
grand challenges• Identify needs, priorities, and recommendations• Wish list – tools and projects
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Outputs
• Report from each seminar – circulated more widely for comment and suggestions
• Final report drawing out common themes and priorities and unique requirements
• On-line information resource as part of AHeSSC – maintained and updated
• Draft report end July• Final report mid-August
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Early thoughts
• Must come from, and be embedded in, research practice and research needs
• Be innovative and push barriers• BUT, be sensitive to those less engaged• Re-imagine the concept of ‘e-Science’ (and
even the name); challenge existing e-Science technologies
• International, scalable, sustainable
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Early thoughts
• Content:– Highly dispersed content joined up through the grid and
appropriate tools – ontology connectors– Deep mining (inc. image and sound) using different
methods – deep log analysis for connecting; folksonomies; data and text mining
– Large scale images, moving images, sound, etc. managed and accessed through the grid
– Capturing the creative process– Annotation, collation, visualisation, simulation– Content from across disciplines
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Early thoughts
• Collaboration:– Strong possibilities– New forms of critical editions– New forms of curation– Democratisation– Dynamic, interactive BUT secure and trusted -
provenance– Push the access grid further for collaborative research
and teaching– Across disciplines
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