blog: Network of Expert Centres

I was just about to blog about yesterday's Network of Expert Centres' workshop in London when I saw that Lou Burnard has already posted a detailed report on the meeting with his impressions. So let me just say that the Network is a new initiative that is just about to define itself - partly to try and fill the gap the the Methods Network and especially the AHDS left.

The Network currently defines itself as follows:

The Network of Expert Centres is a collaboration of centres with expertise in digital arts and humanities, in the sense of data creation, curation, preservation, management (including rights and legal issues), access and dissemination, and methodologies of data use and re-use. Its membership is open to all such centres in the UK.

Its purpose is to support its members in the advocacy and promotion of the value, understanding and use of ICT in arts and humanities research (broadly defined), the development and exchange of expertise, knowledge, standards and best practices, awareness raising, dialogue with relevant stakeholders, identifying and representing the needs of the research community.

You can find more information on the Network and its members at
http://www.arts-humanities.net/noc (yes, we are hosting the Network and are looking forward to work with them on various online activities)