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Final report and other outputs
- The project has now concluded, and the final report may be downloaded from the right-hand side of this page
- Follow the Quick Links for more information about individual workshops
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e-Science and the Challenges of Collaboration
At present, although humanities computing projects may involve large teams of personnel, they generally reflect the research vision of one or two scholars, other team members being responsible for data elaboration and technical development. Projects collaborative in the sense of allowing a wider group of researchers jointly to formulate new research questions are rare. Such collaboration is at the heart of e-science, and exploration of its potential is one of the first ‘grand challenges’ that e-science presents to humanities researchers. Existing humanities computing projects offer a starting-point for exploring this potential on the basis of cross-comparison. An e-science technology that has already proved of considerable interest to humanities scholars is the Access Grid (AG). Use of the AG has hitherto to a large extent treated it as a high-end video-conference solution, with little attention paid to the potential of AG sessions for sharing and collaborative discussion of ICT-based research. To address this shortcoming, the present project held a series of four workshops exploring how the AG might allow arts and humanities researchers who have already made extensive use of ICT to share and discuss work in a wide variety of digital media, and thereby evaluate the potential of grid technologies to develop and enhance their work. While the workshops sought to foster new collaborative activities on the basis of interaction between first-phase humanities computing projects, invitees also included researchers from relevant subject areas with less technical expertise; it was anticipated that the workshops would thereby increase awareness of the potential application of e-science to arts and humanities research more generally. |
Aims and Objectives
- To explore the potential and issues associated with the use of the AG to share ICT-based research and to facilitate collaboration between arts and humanities researchers.
- To test various forms of use of, and access to, the AG.
- To produce a report on issues associated with the use of the AG to share ICT-based research.
- To produce a preliminary tutorial on the sharing of ICT-based research over the AG.
- To encourage awareness of the potential of the AG and other grid technologies to foster new forms of collaborative arts and humanities research.
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Workshop Themes and Leaders
- Digital Images (Professor Peter Ainsworth, Department of French), Wednesday 6 December 2006, 16.00-18.00 GMT.
- Sound and Moving Image (Professor Andrew Prescott, HRI), Wednesday 17 January 2007, 08.00-10.00 GMT.
- Electronic Texts and Databases (Professor David Shepherd, HRI), Wednesday 24 January 2007, 16.00-18.00 GMT.
- VR and Visualisation (Professor Mark Greengrass, Department of History), Wednesday 28 February 2007, 16.00-18.00 GMT.
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