Case Studies
These case studies were contributed by several projects, mainly the AHRC ICT Methods Network and the Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre.
casestudy: Teaching with the Access Grid
Submitted by tobiasb on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 10:06.Establishing Collaborative Postgraduate Research Programmes And Integrated Teaching Agendas Using The Access Grid
Start Date: July 2005
End Date: Oct 2006
About the Project [read more...]
casestudy: Aus-e-Lit
Submitted by stuartdunn on Thu, 06/11/2008 - 12:24.Summary
The Aus-e-Lit project is a NeAT-funded project that aims to address the eResearch needs of researchers involved in the study of Australian literature and Australian print culture.
Project Partners
- eResearch University of Queensland
- Prof. Jane Hunter - Leader of the eResearch Lab [read more...]
casestudy: Associated Motion Capture User Categories
Submitted by tobiasb on Sun, 14/10/2007 - 10:19.The AMUC e-science demonstrator has provided a unique opportunity for performing artists, biomechanics and computing science specialists to collaborate in practice-driven creative research at Culture Lab, Newcastle University's interdisciplinary digital platform. [read more...]
casestudy: ElectroAcoustic Resource Site
Submitted by Hazel Gardiner on Mon, 09/04/2007 - 13:13.
The aim of EARS is the development of a dynamic, multi-lingual, international, publicly available Internet-based bibliographical resource designed to enhance the scholarly infrastructure of electroacoustic music studies. [read more...]
casestudy: The Drawbots Project: Computational Intelligence, Creativity and Cognition: a multidisciplinary investigation
Submitted by Hazel Gardiner on Mon, 09/04/2007 - 12:30.
The Drawbots project is using Evolutionary Robotics to attempt to understand the nature of creativity. The key question is 'what is the simplest robot that can be produced (using Evolutionary Robotics) whose behavior might be described as creative?' [read more...]
casestudy: STAR – Semantic Technologies for Archaeological Resources
Submitted by Hazel Gardiner on Wed, 04/04/2007 - 12:41.
STAR is an AHRC-funded project based in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Glamorgan. The project is a collaboration between the University of Glamorgan, English Heritage and the Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark. It runs from January 2007 to January 2010. [read more...]
casestudy: The UCREL Semantic Analysis System (USAS)
Submitted by Hazel Gardiner on Tue, 03/04/2007 - 13:45.
The UCREL Semantic Analysis System (USAS) is a software system developed to undertake the automatic semantic analysis of text. It has been in use since 1990 when it was developed as part of a project to analyse large bodies of transcribed spoken interviews. [read more...]
casestudy: The Henry III Fine Rolls Project
Submitted by Hazel Gardiner on Wed, 07/03/2007 - 15:04.
There is a fine roll for each of the fifty-six years of Henry III's reign and the current project aims to publish those from 1216 to 1248. [read more...]
- History
- Law
- Cataloguing / indexing
- Markup/text encoding - descriptive - conceptual
- Markup/text encoding - descriptive - document structure
- Markup/text encoding - descriptive - linguistic structure
- Markup/text encoding - descriptive - nominal
- Markup/text encoding - presentational
- Markup/text encoding - referential
- Record linkages
- Searching/querying
- TEI
- Website design
- XML
casestudy: Virtual Vellum
Submitted by stuartdunn on Fri, 02/02/2007 - 17:03.
The Virtual Vellum project provides distributed access to research-quality digitisations of folios from the Chronicles of Jean Froissart, the principal historical source for the first phase of the 100 Years War between England and France. Images are digitally photographed and stored as TIFFs. [read more...]
- English Literature and Languages
- European Literature and Languages
- History
- 2d scanning
- Coding/standardisation
- Data modelling (network)
- Data modelling (object-oriented)
- digitization
- e-science
- Froissart
- Graphical collaborative publishing
- Graphical resource sharing
- Grid Computing
- Image enhancement
- Image optimization for the web
- Manual transcription
- manuscripts
- Markup/text-encoding – descriptive – document structure
- Markup/text-encoding – descriptive – linguistic structure
- Record linkages
- Server scripting
- Textual resource sharing
- virtual research environment
- Visual analysis/visualisation
- VRE
- Web browser scripting
casestudy: Establishing Collaborative Postgraduate Research Programmes and Integrated Teaching Agendas Using the Access Grid
Submitted by Hazel Gardiner on Wed, 27/12/2006 - 13:50.
The increasing pervasiveness of Access Grid technology makes this one of the most significant distributive e-learning tools currently available, with the potential to permit harmonization of curricula across countries and continents. [read more...]






