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1. Slide 1: E-Science and Archaeology Stuart Dunn Centre for e-Research, King’s College London Dept. of Archaeology Research Seminar 7th February 2008
2. Slide 2: 1. What is e-Science? • \"e-Science is about global collaboration in key areas of science and the next generation of infrastructure that will enable it.\" - Sir John Taylor, Former Director General of Research Councils, 2000 • “the development and deployment of a networked infrastructure and culture through which resources – (…) – can be shared in a secure environment, and in which new forms of collaboration can emerge, and new and advanced methodologies explored.” - Sheila Anderson Director, Centre for e-Research, King’s College London, 2007
3. Slide 3: 1. What is e-Science?
4. Slide 4: Building bridges Using networks to connect resources People • Grids to allow virtual computing across “admin domains” Data – Virtual digital libraries, virtual museums, virtual observatories Computation Computation • Technology that was first adopted in sciences…
5. Slide 6: The data grand challenge • No large data set from automated simulations • Intense human effort to better understand heterogeneous resources such as artworks, texts, artefacts • Semantics • Ongoing growth of corpora due to major digitisation projects (OCR, OMR, etc.) • 180 terabyte Shoa foundation archives will be no exception in the future
6. Slide 7: 1. What is e-Science? … BUT
7. Slide 8: 2. A leading example of e-Science in action… Keynote speaker: AHM 2006
8. Slide 9: 2. A leading example of e-Science in action…
9. Slide 10: 2. A leading example of e-Science in action…
10. Slide 11: 2. A leading example of e-Science in action… LEAP project (Linking E-Archives and Publications) http://www.intarch.ac.uk/
11. Slide 12: 3. More e-science and the past… 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)
12. Slide 13: 3. More e-science and the past… 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
13. Slide 14: 3. More e-science and the past… Medieval Warfare on the Grid: The Case of Manzikert Geospatial methods and agent- based approach
14. Slide 15: 3. More e-science and the past…
15. Slide 17: 3. More e-science and the past… CHIMERA: Collaborative Harvesting of Information from Museums, E- Records and Archives
16. Slide 18: = = CHIMERA Host Translation Services Solid line show data flow Dotted lines show conceptual relationships
17. Slide 20: 3. More e-science and the past… Constructing a geodatabase of Theran tephra Place name: Santorini archipelago (northern caldera basin) (26) Place name: Hagia Varvara Deposit type: sea-floor sediment ( 400m) Grid reference: 25.46 E; 35.29 N Grid reference: not given Deposit type: pumice layer Area: - Area: unknown Thickness: 40m Thickness: 5 10 cm Deposition method: waterborne or human agency Deposition method: composite Archaeological context: LM IA or possibly IB c up included in pumice layer and Archaeological context: - filled with p umice, immediately below a s urface layer Comments: - containing LM III pottery. Literature: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Research Vessel Chain Cruise # Comments: Very badly eroded by modern tourist pathways. Illegal 61, ref. no. 67 34. development in the area has further damaged the stratigraphy. As far as the author is a ware, however, this is the only inst ance where a vesse l is included in situ with the volcanic material. Literature: Blackman 2001: 138; Mﾟller Celka 1996: 928 8; also Mﾟl ler Celka personal communication, 6/8/2001.
18. Slide 21: 3. More e-science and the past… Constructing a geodatabase of Theran tephra
19. Slide 22: 3. More e-science and the past… Constructing a geodatabase of Theran tephra
20. Slide 23: 3. More e-science and the past… Constructing a geodatabase of Theran tephra: problems • Accuracy and (versus) precision • Georeferencing from heterogeneous formats
21. Slide 24: 3. More e-science and the past… Constructing a geodatabase of Theran tephra: problems • Accuracy and (versus) precision • Georeferencing from heterogeneous formats and sources • Georeferencing places -formal, based on lat/long or other mathematical expressions -Informal, based on placenames, and/or where no formal mathematical identifier is present 34.87 • Assessing deposition process • Harmonizing points, sections and stratigraphies 24.87
22. Slide 25: Technical/ Human/social computati onal