Briefing Papers

The briefing papers have been written and contributed by the AHRC ICT Methods Network and the Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre (AHeSSC).

briefingpaper: "Beyond GIS": Geospatial resources and services for scholars in the humanities

The study and use of geospatial information is in itself a discipline, with its own literature, journals, conferences and research projects. [read more...]

briefingpaper: Access Grid

The Access Grid (AG) is a global network of internet-enabled locations, or nodes, equipped with AV hardware 'microphones, cameras and projectors' linked by an arrangement of computers over the grid. [read more...]

briefingpaper: Digital Tools and Electronic Texts

The principle areas that this paper will focus on are the digital tools and techniques that have been developed to acquire, process, analyze and present text in digital formats. [read more...]

briefingpaper: Digital Tools and Methods for Historical Research

This paper contains sections on: Tools and Web Resources; Database Structures; Data Mining; Quantitative Methods; Visualization; and Geographical Information Systems. [read more...]

briefingpaper: Digital Tools for Archaeology

The use of computers in archaeology has a lengthy history and practitioners within the discipline can claim, with some justification, that both the technology they use and the methods that they’ve adopted have more of a relationship to scientific practice (including computer science) than those adopted by colleagues in man [read more...]

briefingpaper: Digital Tools for Library and Information Studies

Defining discreet scholarly territories for all disciplines is problematic but it could be argued that Library and Information Studies (LIS) is more problematic than most when it comes to understanding the scope of its remit. [read more...]

briefingpaper: Digital Tools for Linguistics

In addition to sections introducing the discipline and computational approaches relating to it, this paper includes sections on corpus linguistics, knowledge-based systems and developer tools and environments. [read more...]

briefingpaper: Digital Tools for Museums and Cultural Heritage

The prodigious number of tools that are potentially relevant to researchers working in the field of MCH inevitably means that the items mentioned in this relatively brief paper will only represent a partial and subjective selection. [read more...]

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