esi 752008
Post on 11-Nov-2014
1.340 Views
Preview:
DESCRIPTION
TRANSCRIPT
Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
A&H E-SCIENCE
Stuart Dunn
AHeSSC
Centre for e-Research, King’s College London
E-Science Institute, 7th May 2008
Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
‘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, in which new forms of collaboration can emerge, and new and advanced methodologies explored'
Arts and Humanities e-Science in the UK
- AHDS e-Science Scoping Study, 2006
Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
Arts and Humanities e-Science in the UK
2005: AHRC-JISC e-Science Initiative begins
2006: - AHeSSC begins
- EPSRC joins initiative
- 3 small scale demonstrator projects funded by EPSRC
- 6 research workshops funded by AHRC
2007: 7 research projects and 4 PhD studentships announced
Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
Arts and Humanities e-Science in the UK - 2006
Workshop projects (AHRC)
• User Requirements Gathering for the Humanities (Professor Alan Bowman, University of Oxford) • Geographical Information System e-Science: developing a roadmap (Dr Paul Ell, Queen’s University Belfast) • Performativity/Place/Space: Locating Grid Technologies (Dr Angela Piccini, University of Bristol )• The Access Grid in Collaborative Arts and Humanities Research (Professor David Shepherd, University of Sheffield) • Building the Wireframe: E-Science for the Arts Infrastructure (Dr Gregory Sporton, University of Central England)• ReACH: Researching e-Science Analysis of Census Holdings (Dr Melissa Terras, University College London)
Demonstrator Projects (EPSRC)
• Virtual Vellum: Online Viewing Environment for the Grid and Live Audiences (Professor PF Ainsworth, University of Sheffield)• A Virtual Workspace for the Study of Ancient Documents (Dr CV Crowther, University of Oxford) • Motion Capture Data Services for Multiple User Categories (Dr SJ Norman, University of Newcastle)
http://www.ahessc.ac.uk/projects
Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
Example 1: Virtual Vellum
Prototype manuscript viewer by Colin Dunn, Scriptura Ltd. Images © Stonyhurst College, Lancashire and Scriptura Ltd
The Froissart Chronicles. From ‘Incipit’ portal, Peter Ainsworth, Leverhulme Research Fellow and Director of the Froissart Chronicles Project. © Besançon Public Library (ms 865, f. 133v)
Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
http://www.shef.ac.uk/hri/projects/projectpages/virtualvellum.htmlhttp:/ahessc.ac.uk/virtual-vellum
Example 1: Virtual Vellum
Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
Example 1: Virtual Vellum
• Supports networks of very high resolution images
• Utilization of image tiling technologies and JPEG2000
• Scalable
• Collaborative - integration with Access Grid
• Extensible - can be applied to any area of research involving large or
hi-res images
• Project report http://www.ahessc.ac.uk/files/active/0/VV-report.pdf
Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
Example 2: Associated Motion Capture User Categories
“a prototype data retrieval tool, allowing movement features or sequences to be called up from a motion capture database”
Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
Example 2: Associated Motion Capture User Categories
• Ultra-sensitive method of capturing dance movement
• Involved a huge range of collaborators
• The project was built around a dialogue between CS experts and performance researchers
• Information retrieval
• Project report: http://www.ahessc.ac.uk/files/active/0/VWSAD-report.pdf
Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
Co-directors
Research Associates
Lorna Hughes Sheila Anderson
Tobias Blanke Stuart Dunn
Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
Support, co-ordinate and promote e-Science in all arts and humanities disciplines, and to liaise with the e-Science and e-Social Science communities, computing, and information sciences.
AHeSSC:
Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
Practical assistance and liaison
• Helpdesk function
- support@ahessc.ac.uk
• Other national support services
• Access Grid Support Centre
• National Grid Service
• National Centre for e-Social Science
• National e-Science Centre
AHRC/EPSRC funded activities
Other projects/centres of activity
• Information on funding opportunities:
Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
http://www.arts-humanities.net
Torsten Reimer, Methods Network
Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/ictguides
Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
Scoping survey
Expert seminars:
-Library and information studies (Melisssa Terras)
- Archaeology (William Kilbride)
-Literary and textual studies (Peter Robinson)
-History (Mark Greengrass)
-Visual arts (Sue Gollifer)
-Performing arts (Angela Piccini)
-Language and linguistics (Paul Rayson)
Reports on e-science tools and projects
Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
Scoping survey
I. Guiding principles
- Agenda must be by and for arts and humanities
- Must be inclusive - i.e. not just for the tech savvy
- e-science is about empowerment and democratization
- innovation
- new forms of collaboration across domains and sectors
- redefining the concept of e-science
- international collaboration
- scalable and sustainable - evidence of value
Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
II. Grand challenges: Content
- Data deluge - information inaccessible in analogue form
- Access to commercial data
- Need for deep mining technologies
- Curation of complex digital content
Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
II. Grand challenges: Collaboration
- Access grid
- VREs - ‘share and contest ideas and theories, share source materials and other data collaborate to create to create new forms of online editions…’
- Cultural shift
- Institutional issues
Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
II. Grand challenges: Needs for new methods and tools- Tools to aid search, retrieval, annotation and visualization
- Tools for data management and standards
- ‘Reservoir’ of user data
- A&H are interprative - ‘cycle of interpretation and debate’
www.ahessc.ac.uk/scoping-survey
top related