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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
Content Types
• Narrative Text• Datasets/Structured data and text• Still Image/Graphics• Moving image• 3D Object• Spatial• Sound
Function types
• Capture• Structuring and Enhancement• Analysis• Dissemination and presentation
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“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 Archaeology1987
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A loose federation of methods and technologies which enable advanced research via the internet
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.
Arts and Humanities e-Science Support CentreAHRC-JISC E-SCIENCE INITIATIVE: http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/e-science
AHeSSC: http://www.ahessc.ac.uk
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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Compute Grid
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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
• Capture
• Structuring and Enhancement
• Analysis
• Dissemination and presentation
Ontologies
Metadata
Middleware
Access Grid