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1. Slide 1: Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre A new way of working: the UK Arts and Humanities e-Science Initiative Stuart Dunn AHeSSC Centre for e-Research, King’s College London Acume2 Meeting, Warsaw, 6 November 2007
2. Slide 2: Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre Arts and Humanities e-Science in the UK ‘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' - AHDS e-Science Scoping Study, 2006
3. Slide 3: 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
4. Slide 4: Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre Arts and Humanities e-Science in the UK - 2006 http://www.ahessc.ac.uk/projects 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) 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)
5. Slide 5: Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre Arts and Humanities e-Science in the UK - 2007 http://www.ahessc.ac.uk/research-projects •Helen Bailey: Relocating Choreographic Process: The impact of Grid technologies and collaborative memory on the documentation of practice-led research in dance •Alan Bowman: Image, Text, Interpretation: e-Science, Technology and Documents •Tim Crawford: Purcell Plus: Exploring an eScience Methodology for Musicologists •Vincent Gaffney: Medieval Warfare on the Grid: The Case of Manzikert •Sally MacDonald, E-Curator: 3D colour scans for remote object identification and assessment •Julian Richards, Archaeotools: Data mining, facetted classification and E-archaeology •monica schraefel, musicSpace: Using and Evaluating e-Science Design Methods and Technologies to Improve Access to Heterogeneous Music Resources for Musicology
6. Slide 6: Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre Example 1: Virtual Vellum The Froissart Chronicles. From ‘Incipit’ portal, Peter Ainsworth, Leverhulme Research Fellow and Director of the Froissart Chronicles Prototype manuscript viewer Project. by Colin Dunn, Scriptura Ltd. © Besançon Public Library (ms 865, Images © Stonyhurst College, f. 133v) Lancashire and Scriptura Ltd
7. Slide 7: Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre Example 1: Virtual Vellum http://www.shef.ac.uk/hri/projects/projectpages/virtualvellum.html http:/ahessc.ac.uk/virtual-vellum
8. Slide 8: 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 •
9. Slide 9: Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre Example 2: Medieval Warfare on the Grid: The Case of Manzikert Battle of Manzikert - 1071 AD
10. Slide 10: Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre Example 2: Medieval Warfare on the Grid: The Case of Manzikert Geospatial methods and agent- based approach
11. Slide 11: Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre Example 2: Medieval Warfare on the Grid: The Case of Manzikert Placename-related entities Named places Relative distance references Feature types
12. Slide 12: Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre Example 2: Medieval Warfare on the Grid: The Case of Manzikert Agent-based approach • Integration of GIS data and ABM • Aggregation of data from multiple sources in heterogeneous data formats • Simulation *not* reconstruction • Requires HPC infrastructure and ‘big data’ capacity • • Project website: http://www.arch- ant.bham.ac.uk/research/fieldwork_research_themes/projects/logistics/M anzikert/Index.htm (or Google for medieval warfare Manzikert)
13. Slide 13: Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre Example 3: Associated Motion Capture User Categories “a prototype data retrieval tool, allowing movement features or sequences to be called up from a motion capture database”
14. Slide 14: Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre Example 3: 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 •
15. Slide 15: Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre Co-directors Lorna Hughes Sheila Anderson Research Associates Tobias Blanke Stuart Dunn
16. Slide 16: Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre AHeSSC: 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.
17. Slide 17: 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 • Information on funding opportunities: AHRC/EPSRC funded activities Other projects/centres of activity
18. Slide 18: Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre http://www.arts-humanities.net Torsten Reimer, Methods Network
19. Slide 19: Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre http://www.ahds.ac.uk/ictguides
20. Slide 20: Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre • M. Hedges: Grid enabling humanities datasets • N. Gold: Opportunities for A&H and Service Oriented Architecture and Web Services • D. Shepherd & A. Prescott: Methods and Technologies for Enabling Virtual Research Communities • P. Ainsworth & M. Meredith: The Virtual Vellum project • A. Piccini: Performing in virtual venues • H. Denard: The London Charter and e-Science visualization • G. Sporton: E-Science and Performance • J. Garces & G. Bodard: Collaborative text editing and annotating • S. Jeffrey: Aspects of Space and Time in Humanities e-Science
21. Slide 21: Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre 7 Lectures (April-July 2007) eSI THEME -April 30th: Opening lecture: Sheila Anderson (AHeSSC) -June 18th: Methods and Technologies for Enabling Virtual Research Communities -June 19th: Ontologies and Semantic Interoperability for Humanities Data -June 20th: Collaborative Text Editing -July 2nd: Grid Enabling Humanities Datasets -July 6th: E-Science and Performance -July 23rd: Aspects of Space and Time in Humanities e-Science http://www.ahessc.ac.uk/theme
22. Slide 22: Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre Training eSI THEME • What? • Why? • How? • Postgraduates and researchers
23. Slide 23: Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre stuart.dunn@kcl.ac.uk tobias.blanke@kcl.ac.uk 020 7848 1975 / 2709 www.ahessc.ac.uk AHDS 26 - 29 Drury Lane KCL London WC2B 5RL