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Methods Network Presentation ResourceMethods Network Presentation Resource
○ Introduction to Methods Network
○ Partnerships & Collaborations
○ Methods Network Activities
○ Methods Network Publications
○ Contact Details
○ E-Science
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AHRC Funded
The Methods Network
The AHRC ICT programme was launched in October 2003 and now has funding of £3.8 million
The Methods Network is one of many resources designed to support the implementation of this programme
Methods Network to operate from April 2005 – March 2008
Remit to cover the UK Arts and Humanities Research community
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Panel 1: Classics, Ancient History & Archaeology
Panel 2: Visual Arts & Media: practice, history & theory
Panel 3: English Language & Literature
Panel 4: Medieval and Modern History
Panel 5: Modern Languages & linguistics
Panel 6: Librarianship, Information & Museum Studies
Panel 7: Music & Performing Arts
Panel 8: Philosophy, Law and Religious Studies
AHRC Panels
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What is our role?
To promote the use of advanced ICT methods in Arts and Humanities research
By providing a national forum for the exchange and dissemination of expertise
How is this achieved?
By monitoring and fostering new research opportunities and new modes of collaboration across all Arts and Humanities disciplines
By raising the public profile of ICT in the Arts and Humanities
By working with other agencies and projects that are committed to investigating and developing the use of ICT methods
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Exchange and Dissemination○ Methods Network website
○ Expert Seminars
○ Workgroups
○ Workshops
○ Seminars/conferences
○ Visits
○ RSS feed
○ Mailing list
○ Wiki
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New Research Opportunities○ Encouraging cross-disciplinary collaboration
○ Operating with a pan-institutional remit
○ Using a pro-active approach to establish initiatives
○ Investigating new methods and their application
○ Advising and supporting grant-holders & funding applicants
○ Engaging with postgraduate level researchers
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ICT Public Profile○ Publishing authoritative ‘state of the art’ information
○ Promotion of ‘Arts & Humanities Computing’ as a discipline
○ Supporting the evaluation of ICT driven research output
○ Focusing on sustainable resource creation
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Other Agencies and Projects○ Associate directors and related organisations
○ AHDS
○ AHRC
○ AHRC funded projects
○ Arts & Humanities Research Centres
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Staff
Network Activities Centre (NAC)
Range of backgrounds and experience
History, Art History, Archaeology, IT, Musicology, Digitisation, Meta-data, Publishing, Research, Funding …
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Where are we?
Temple, Holborn or Charing X
www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk
0207 848 2689
Kay House
7 Arundel Street
London WC2R 3DX
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Network & Associate Directors
Mark Greengrass
Humanities Research Institute, Sheffield University
Sandra Kemp
Royal College of Art
Andrew Wathey
Royal Holloway, University of London
Harold Short & Marilyn Deegan
CCH, King’s College London
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Related projects
AHRC ICT strategy projects Scoping E-Science and E-Social Science Developments and their Value to the Arts & Humanities
Peer Review and Evaluation of Digital Resources
User Requirements Analysis for Portals in the Arts and Humanities
Gathering Evidence: Current ICT use and Future needs for Arts & Humanities Research
ICT Tools for Searching, Annotation and Analysis of Audio-Visual Media
The Hunt for Submarines in Classical Art; Mappings between Science and Art
Log Analysis of Internet Resources in the Arts & Humanities
Making Space: Tracking and Documenting the Cognitive Process in 3D visualisation research
Information Mining in Distributive Research Datasets in the Arts & Humanities
Linking E-Archives & E-Publications
Lexical Searches for Arts & Humanities. The Historical Thesaurus of English
Flexibly Searchable Streaming Media Archive of Contemporary and Modern Art Theory/Practice
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Useful resourcesGathering Evidence: Current ICT Use and Future Needs for Arts and
Humanities Researchers Principal Investigator: Dr Lesly Huxley, University of Bristol
Report expected: July 2006
A Taxonomy of Computational Methods Reto Speck, AHDS
Publicly accessible: February 2006 onwards
Scoping E-Science and E-Social Science to the Arts & Humanities Sheila Anderson, AHDS
Report expected: October 2006
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Activities
Expert Seminars
○ Five Expert Seminars per year (budget £5400 per seminar)
○ To examine specific advanced ICT methods in and across disciplines
○ To identify future and current needs
○ To Identify issues which may be addressed in follow-up activities
Seminar proceedings will be published online and selected papers will be peer reviewed for print publication
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Activities
1. Linguistics - Word Frequency and Keyword Extraction
Hosted and organised by Tony McEnery, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, held at the Lancaster House Hotel, on 8 September 2005.
Expert Seminars
3. Music - Modern Methods for Musicology: Prospects, Proposals and Realities
Hosted and organised by Andrew Wathey and Tim Crawford, held at Royal Holloway, University of London, on 3 March 2006.
2. 3D Visualisation – Making 3D Visual Research Outcomes Transparent
Hosted and organised by Richard Beecham and Hugh Denard, King’s Visualisation Lab, held at CCH on 25 February 2006. In conjunction with an EPOCH funded symposium event at the British Academy 23-24 February 2006
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5. History and Archaeology - The Past and the Virtual Representation of Texts, Objects and Time
Hosted and organised by Mark Greengrass, held at the Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, on 19-21 April 2006.
ActivitiesExpert Seminars (cont.)
4. Literature - Text Editing in a Digital Environment
Hosted and organised by Marilyn Deegan and Harold Short, held at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College, London on 24 March 2006.
6. Visual Arts – From Pigments to Pixels
Hosted and organised by Mike Pringle, AHDS Visual Arts, held at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, London on 27 April 2006.
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Activities
Workshops
○ Four Advanced workshops each year (£5K per activity)
○ Open call for proposals to the community
○ Intended as sessions to “train the trainers”
○ To address immediate and narrowly defined training needs
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Activities
Workgroups
○ To explore specific issues
○ To report on key issues
○ To make specific or strategic recommendations
○ Limited or long term remit
○ Report within 6 or 12 months
○ No more than 10 members
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Activities
Seminars / Conferences
○ Five seminars or conferences per year (£2K per event)
○ Community led
○ Published outcomes where appropriate
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Publications
Expert Seminars
Discussions are currently under way with a publisher to produce a series of publications based on these events
Other publications
Online publication will complement print publishing to disseminate the outcomes of Methods Network activities as widely as possible
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E-Science○ The development of case studies illustrating the use of grid technologies in the arts and
humanities
○ Identifying research questions and/or problems in the Arts and Humanities that might be addressed by grid technologies
○ Understanding the ways in which new collaborative projects might be developed and supported
○ Helping to identify and initiate partnerships
○ Addressing the questions of peer review and assessment of such work, and its implications for the RAE
○ Identifying, documenting and disseminating new ICT research methods that may result from such work.