A roadshow on e-infrastructure, 'From motion capture to ancient manuscripts: Using complex digital resources across disciplines' is taking place at King's College London on Friday January 30th.

This event is sponsored by JISC, and facilitated and hosted by the Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre (AHeSSC) based at the Centre for e-Research. It will be of interest to staff and students from any discipline who are interested in finding out more about digital infrastructure and services and the new opportunities for multi-skilled, multi-disciplinary collaboration these provide.

Speakers include representatives of the National Grid Service, the National e-Science Centre, the University of Manchester, and the Centre for e-Research.

The event, located in the Franklin Wilkins building on the Waterloo campus, is free to attend and lunch will be provided. For more details and to register, visit the roadshow website: www.jisc.ac.uk/kingsroadshow.

Programme

9.30: Arrival and coffee

10.00: Welcome: Stuart Dunn (King's College London)

10.10: David Fergusson (National e-Science Centre): Making use of the UK's advanced computing services for research - an overview

10.30: Jens Jensen (National Grid Service): Data Management and the National Grid Service

10:50: John McNaught (National Centre for Text Mining): Forget bag-of-words for bags of words: how text mining services enable richer exploration of digital text collections

11.10: Discussion

11.40: Break

12:00: Martin Turner (University of Manchester): Reasons and Experience for Needing Visualizations of Complex Remote Data Sources

12.20: Gerhard Brey (King's College London): Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts in the Digital Age

12.40: Stephen Grace (King's College London): Preserving complex objects

13.00: Plenary discussion (chair: Stuart Dunn)

13.30: Lunch

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