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Visualising Data in the Arts
and Humanities
Dr Pamela Mason
Strategy & Development Manager
Creative and Performing Arts Team
24 January 2014
Digital Transformations
• Exploit the potential of digital technologies to effect a
transformation through incorporating and using the digital in arts
and humanities research
• Ensure that arts and humanities research is at the forefront of
tackling crucial issues
• Develop new ways of working to enhance access and creativity
• Encourage new alliances in the arts and humanities and beyond
• Develop new skills and techniques for working with data and
technologies
Arts and Humanities Data
• Archaeology Data Service (ADS) preserves and supports
archaeological data and its reuse
http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/
• The Great Britain Historical (GBH) GIS holds 14,099,469 data
values, bringing together historical surveys of Britain covering
demographic, economic, social and political history over the last
200 years http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/
• Digital images of musical scores, challenge of reading using
Optical Music Recognition e.g. http://imslp.org/
• Time-based media data, such as music and film – includes
camera-generated data as well as data generated through the
creative process.
Why Visualisation?
• Digital Arts can help create new types of interface and
visualisation
• Effective visualisations, as well as other representations of
data (sound, haptics etc) can add huge value to the data by:
– Enabling new ways of communicating research
– Exposing trends and insights that might otherwise have been missed
– Allowing researchers to ask different questions of the data presented
– Allowing popular access to the data
Gateway to Research?
• Helping us to understand the Research Councils’
portfolios
• Raising the profile of Research Council funded
projects
• Allowing easier public access to the information
• Demonstrating the benefit of effective visualisations
and the role of the Digital Arts
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