Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre

e-Science methods in archaeology

Development, support and infrastructure in the UK

Belfast 3rd July 2006

Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre W. McCARTY: NEW SPLASHINGS IN THE OLD POND: THE COHESIBILITY OF HUMANITIES COMPUTING (2002): http://computerphilologie.uni-muenchen.de/jg02/mccarty.html

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Taxonomy of Computational Methods

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• Narrative Text • Datasets/Structured data and text • Still Image/Graphics • Moving image • 3D Object • Spatial • Sound

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• Capture • Structuring and Enhancement • Analysis • Dissemination and presentation

Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre “New ways of processing data, in particular computer based, have been developed in line with the developing range of new concepts, aiming at extracting more subtle and precisely documented pattering in archaeological data…” M. Shanks and C. Tilley, Social Theory and Archaeology 1987

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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.

A loose federation of methods and technologies which enable advanced research via the internet

AHRC-JISC E-SCIENCE INITIATIVE: http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/e-science AHeSSC: Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre EPSRC Demonstrators: •Virtual Vellum: Online Viewing Environment for the Grid and Live Audiences (Sheffield) •A Virtual Workspace for the Study of Ancient Documents (Oxford) •Motion Capture Data Services for Multiple User Categories (Newcastle) AHRC Workshops: •User Requirements Gathering for the Humanities (Oxford) •Geographical Information System e-Science: developing a roadmap (Belfast) •Performativity/Place/Space: Locating Grid Technologies (Bristol) •The Access Grid in Collaborative Arts and Humanities Research (Sheffield) •Building the Wireframe: E-Science for the Arts Infrastructure (UCE) •ReACH: Researching e-Science Analysis of Census Holdings (UCL) Call for major research projects (August 2006) of £1.2m

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The Froissart Chronicles. From ‘Incipit’ portal, Peter Ainsworth, Leverhulme Research Fellow and Director of the Froissart Chronicles Project. Copyright: Besançon Public Library (ms 865, f. 133v) http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/links/case.html

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Content Types

• Narrative Text • Datasets/Structured data and text • Still Image/Graphics • Moving image • 3D Object • Spatial • Sound

Function types

Ontologies Metadata Middleware Access Grid • Capture • Structuring and Enhancement • Analysis • Dissemination and presentation