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Page 1: ICT in Arts and Humanities Research e-Science Institute Public Lecture A Potential for All: e-Science for the Arts and Humanities 30 April 2007

ICT in Arts and Humanities Research ICT in Arts and Humanities Research

e-Science Institute Public Lecture

A Potential for All: e-Science for the Arts and Humanities

30 April 2007

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ICT in Arts and Humanities Research

What is e-Science in the Arts and humanities

• Agenda rather than a methodology, still less a subject

• An Oxymoron? • e-Science vs e-Research

• National agenda developed in the natural sciences and technology

• Infrastructure of advanced technologies for secure collaboration and resource-sharing across the Internet

• all Research Councils committed in their Delivery Plans

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ICT in Arts and Humanities Research

Grid technologies

• Computational grid

• Data grid

• Communications grid (Access Grid)

Associated technologies (service grid)

• Visualization

• Data mining

• Security

But looser definition

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ICT in Arts and Humanities Research

First phase of the Programme: 2000-

• £98m spread across Research Councils• Core e-Science Programme managed by EPSRC on behalf of

all the Research Councils• AHRB misses out• Tony Hey Director of the e-Science Core Programme

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ICT in Arts and Humanities Research

Third phase of the Programme: 2006-• No earmarked money: AHRC misses out again• Core e-Science Programme managed by EPSRC on behalf of

all the Research Councils• Malcolm Atkinson e-Science Envoy

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ICT in Arts and Humanities Research

e-Science

• Why is it important for the humanities?

– Money

• tools and generic resource development

– Injection of new technologies

• collaborations between computer scientists and arts and humanities researchers

– Dispersed and heterogenous nature of typical humanities data resource

• the typical AHRC-funded resource

– Not an instant solution

• Combination of top-down and bottom-up developments to integrate resources

– But not just the data grid

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ICT in Arts and Humanities Research

Existing provision • AHRC Research Panels

– Up to 2003, about 50% of £100m of research projects have some kind of digital output and/or input

– What kind of projects?• Support services funded by AHRC and JISC

– Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS)• creation, curation, preservation, and on-line

dissemination of digitised research materials– Resource Discovery Network (RDN: now Intute)

• gateways for the discovery of online resources

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ICT in Arts and Humanities Research

ICT in Arts and Humanities Research Programme• includes the creative and performing arts

– practice-led research • £3.8m for 5 years from October 2003• Part of a uniquely centralized system of public support for ICT

in the arts and humanities– but...

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ICT in Arts and Humanities Research

ICT Programme’s aims:• to build capacity nation-wide in the use of ICT for arts and

humanities research– complementing existing provision

• to advise on the AHRC's ICT strategy– later...

• strong infrastructure in place on which to build up e-Science activities– despite arriving at the table very late

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ICT in Arts and Humanities Research

Main activities:• ICT Methods Network: £1m for 3 years from April 2005

– use of advanced ICT methods• Projects and methods database (with support from JISC)

– methods taxonomy– will be part of a unified on-line resource: ICTGuides (AHDS)

• including training materials at all levels• register of experts• list of centres

• ICT Strategy Projects (£1m)– knowledge-gathering: needs, uses, scoping surveys– resource-development

• Problems of funding tools development

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ICT in Arts and Humanities Research

AHRC-EPSRC-JISC Arts and Humanties e-Science Initiative

– Scoping survey

– JISC A&H e-Science Support Centre (King’s: 2006-8)

• based in AHDS and Methods Network

– AHRC A&H e-Science Research Workshops

– EPSRC e-Science demonstrators

– six 4-year AHRC e-Science postgraduate studentships.

– AHRC-JISC e-Science research projects (£1.2m + EPSRC?)

• varying emphasis on tools development and research findings

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ICT in Arts and Humanities Research ICT in Arts and Humanities Research

Workshops in e-Science for the Arts and Humanities

• Alan Bowman User Requirements Gathering for the Humanities

• Paul Ell Geographical Information System e-Science: developing a roadmap

• Angela Piccini Performativity/Place/Space: Locating Grid Technologies

• David Shepherd The Access Grid in Collaborative Arts and Humanities Research

• Gregory Sporton Building the Wireframe: E-Science for the Arts Infrastructure

• Melissa Terras ReACH: Researching e-Science Analysis of Census Holdings

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ICT in Arts and Humanities Research

– cross dataset searching (across complex and fuzzy data) and developing a configurable tool to undertake record matching

• not merely limited to historians and census material• physicists and astrophysicists working on the

Astrogrid – to track and trace different entities in space

across massive datasets

Workshops in e-Science for the Arts and Humanities

• Melissa Terras ReACH: Researching e-Science Analysis of Census Holdings

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ICT in Arts and Humanities Research ICT in Arts and Humanities Research

e-Science Demonstrators (EPSRC)

• Peter Ainsworth Virtual Vellum: Online Viewing Envionment for the Grid and Live Audiences

• Charles Crowther

A Virtual Workspace for the Study of Ancient Documents

• Sarah-Jane Norman

Motion Capture Data Services for Multiple User Categories

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ICT in Arts and Humanities Research

Research Grants and Studentships Scheme

Aims:• to advance research in the A&H through the use and

development of e-Science technologies– build up the infrastructure of tools and resources for ICT-

based research in the A&H, – and to demonstrate the value of such tools and resources

through the achievement of significant A&H research findings.

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ICT in Arts and Humanities Research

Balance between development and research findings may vary from one project to another

• the development of e-Science tools or resources specifically for research in the arts and/or humanities– must present a significant research or development

challenge in terms of the technology• and/or the achievement of significant research findings in an

arts or humanities subject using e-Science technologies. – must achieve significant research findings

• panel expects to fund a selection of both types of project

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ICT in Arts and Humanities Research

The Panel sought to fund a broad range of activities, • covering a number of different technologies and subject areas,• including practice-led research in the creative and performing

arts.

Projects of varying size, which may last for a period of from six months up to a maximum of four years

• maximum FEC of £400,000 (plus any studentships)

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ICT in Arts and Humanities Research

Projects must involve an appropriate level of collaboration between ICT specialists and arts or humanities scholars

• expressed in terms of time commitment• and demonstrate that their participants possess collectively the

appropriate level of expertise in both areas.

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ICT in Arts and Humanities Research

Archaeology 4

Art 5

Dance & Drama 8

Generic 4

History Politics 2

Language & Linguistics 4

Literary Studies 5

Media Studies & Photography 2

Museums 3

Music 4

Creative Writing 1

TOTAL 42

A&H PI 25

CS PI 17

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ICT in Arts and Humanities Research

Malcolm Atkinson, national e-Science Envoy

e-Science is the systematic development of methods using advanced ICT to enable better research (20th March 2007)