The e-Science group on Digital Arts & Humanities looks into ways the e-Science agenda can be made applied to arts and humanities research. It was initiated by AHeSSC, the Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre.
The Arts and Humanities e-Science Initiative is jointly funded by the AHRC, EPSRC and JISC. The Initiative aims to enable research practitioners to embed the advanced use of ICT in their research and teaching practices. It will also facilitate collaboration across traditional subject and discipline boundaries.
At the end of the Nineties, a national e-Science Core Programme was established in the UK. Its agenda was driven by scientists who needed new technologies and concepts to cope with the ever increasing amount of data, both from experiments and simulations as well as knowledge gathering exercises. Faced with this 'data deluge', a new data-driven science was conceptualized with the scientist and research methods at the center of new data technologies.
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The idea of e-Science and the e-Scientist was accompanied by the development of new high-speed computing networks that promised solutions to a variety of problems in coping with the vast amount of information. 'Grid technologies' were the result of a global effort from computer scientists working together witch practitioners to advance existing network technologies like the internet in order to create a global space of sharing resources and services.
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E-Science therefore stands for the development and deployment of a networked infrastructure and culture through which resources can be shared in a secure environment. These resources can be everything from processing power, data, or expertise that researchers can share. This networked infrastructure allows a culture of collaboration, in which new forms of collaboration can emerge, and new and advanced methodologies can be explored.
The Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre (AHeSSC) forms a critical part of the AHRC-JISC-EPSRC Arts and Humanities E-Science Initiative. The Centre is hosted by King's College London and located at the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) and the AHRC ICT Methods Network.
AHeSSC exists to support, co-ordinate and promote e-Science in all arts and humanities disciplines, and to liaise with the e-Science and e-Social Science communities, computing, and information sciences.
event: JPEG 2000 for the practitioner - a one-day seminar
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Fri, 27/08/2010 - 11:05 16/11/2010 09:00
16/11/2010 17:00
A free seminar to explore and examine the use of JPEG 2000 in the cultural heritage industry will be held at the Wellcome Trust. The seminar will include specific case studies of JPEG 2000 use. It will explain technical issues that have an impact on practical implementation of the format, and explore the context of how and why organisations may choose to use JPEG 2000. Although the seminar will have an emphasis on digitisation and digital libraries, the papers will be relevent to a range of research and creative industries. Places are limited to 80 [read more...]
Location
Wellcome Trust
215 Euston Road
LondonUnited Kingdom
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event: First DCC roadshow
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Wed, 25/08/2010 - 14:01 02/11/2010
04/11/2010
DCC Roadshow 2010 - 2011
"Institutional Challenges in the Data Decade"
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The Digital Curation Centre announces the launch of the first DCC Roadshow.
The event will comprise a series of inter-linked workshops aimed at supporting institutional data management, planning and training.
The first will take place 2-4 November in Bath and will be open to participants from Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) in the south-west of England.
Please mark the date in your diary and check the DCC website for further information and additional events. [read more...]
Location
Bath Ventures Innovation Centre
Broad Quay
Bath BA1 1UDUnited Kingdom
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event: Digital Preservation Training Programme
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Wed, 25/08/2010 - 11:53 04/10/2010
06/10/2010
University of London Computer Centre announces that the next Digital Preservation Training Programme (DPTP) will take place from 4th-6th of October 2010, at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London. [read more...]
Location
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
London
United Kingdom
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event: Copyright Clearance for Print, Broadcast and Multimedia Production
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Tue, 24/08/2010 - 16:38 22/09/2010
Wednesday 22 September 2010
Central London
An essential one-day course for those needing to copy and use existing content in their productions and services.
Participants will gain an understanding of:
• Types of works with are protected
• Rights ownership and licensing
• The status of copyright exceptions
• The meaning of 'fair dealing'
• The process of rights clearance
The course is presented by Alma Hales, acting head of Intellectual Property at the Open University and Bernadette Attwell, former Deputy Head of Intellectual Property at the Open University. [read more...]
Location
British Universities Film & Video Council
77 Wells Street
London W1T 3QJUnited Kingdom
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event: International Conference on Digital Library Management (ICDLM)
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Tue, 24/08/2010 - 14:46 11/01/2011
13/01/2011
Theme: Extending Benefits of Modern Technology to Public, Academic and Special Libraries
Science City, Kolkata, 11-13 January, 2011
Organiser: TERI, New Delhi
Co-Organiser: Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation, Ministry of Culture, Government of India, Kolkata [read more...]
Location
Kolkata
India
event: Two Thousand + TEN Symposium on improvisation
Submitted by franziska on Fri, 13/08/2010 - 10:45 06/11/2010 09:30
06/11/2010 09:30
The Two Thousand + symposium (http://twothousand.wordpress.com) is an annual one day research event, which has been running alongside the Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music in Belfast since 2006. It is a day during which performance practitioners from diverse areas such as music, sonic arts, dance, theater, new media, as well as theorists come together to cover a wide variety of topics on performance informed by new technologies.
During the symposium day on the 6th of November, we will have selected papers, two keynote talks plus concerts. [read more...]
Location
Sonic Arts Research Centre
4 Cloreen Park
Belfast BT7 1NNUnited Kingdom
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job: RA position: geographical information management and web development
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Fri, 30/07/2010 - 14:59Application Deadline:
31/08/2010
UCL Department / Division: Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering Duration of post: 3.5 Years
Grade: 6 £27,796-£29,318 per annum [read more...]
event: Managing Digital Media Collections
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Fri, 30/07/2010 - 12:29 05/08/2010 10:00
05/08/2010 16:30
Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30
Aim
Now that many important materials are in a digital form, building an accessible online media collection which successfully delivers images, sounds, video and other media is a goal of many institutions.
Until recently, expensive Digital Asset Management systems where the most viable option, but now open source server applications such as Dspace, Omeka and Drupal hold the promise of truly interoperable and standards-based collection management. [read more...]
Location
8-10 Berkeley Square
Bristol BS8 1HHUnited Kingdom
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MA in Digital Asset Management (MADAM)
New MA in Digital Asset Management
King’s has launched an innovative postgraduate programme to respond to the demand for digitally literate professionals to work in libraries, archives, cultural heritage institutions and business enterprises by equipping students with a range of strategic, technical and practical skills to provide direction and leadership in this area. [read more...]
event: LINKED DATA: THE FUTURE OF KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION ON THE WEB
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Thu, 29/07/2010 - 14:45 14/09/2010 10:00
14/09/2010 19:00
You are cordially invited to attend a one-day conference on Linked Data, organised by ISKO UK, the British Chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Organization:
LINKED DATA: THE FUTURE OF KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION ON THE WEB
14 September 2010: 10:00 - 19:00
VENUE: University College London, Chemistry Lecture Theatre, Gordon Street, London WC1H
FEE: Non-members: £55 (£50 if paid by 10th September)
ISKO UK members & students: £20 (£15 if paid by 10th September) [read more...]
Location
Gordon Street
London WC1HUnited Kingdom
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job: RESEARCH POST: SPATIAL MODELLING OF CITY REGIONS
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Wed, 28/07/2010 - 16:38Application Deadline:
10/08/2010
Salary: £27,319 - £35,646 pa or £36,715 - £46,510 pa
The University of Cambridge is leading the ReVISIONS research project, a consortium of six universities funded by EPSRC, to research how different patterns of spatial development of city-regions can affect sustainability. The aim is to understand how urban density, settlement size and spatial form may affect the potential for infrastructure technologies to improve sustainability. Further information about the ReVISIONS project can be found at www.regionalvisions.ac.uk [read more...]
CfP: Archiving 2011
Closing Date:
17/10/2010
IS&T is pleased to announce the Archiving 2011 Call for Papers.
The deadline for submitting presentation abstracts for Archiving 2011 to be held May 16-19, 2011 in Salt Lake City, Utah, is October 17, 2010. A PDF of the Call for Papers can be found at www.imaging.org/ist/conferences/archiving. [read more...]
event: Archiving 2011
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Wed, 28/07/2010 - 16:25 16/05/2011
19/05/2011
Since the first meeting, Archiving has continued to offer a unique opportunity for imaging scientists and those working in the cultural heritage community (curators, archivists, librarians, etc.), as well as in government, industry, and academia, to come together to discuss the most pressing issues related to the digital preservation and stewardship of hardcopy, audio, and video.
Next Archiving Conference:
Dates: May 16 - May 19, 2011
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
More information to be found here:
http://www.imaging.org/ist/conferences/archiving/
Location
Salt Lake City, Utah
United States
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event: eHumanities - How does computer science benefit?
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Mon, 26/07/2010 - 14:16 30/09/2010 09:00
30/09/2010 17:30
Organiser: Prof. Gerhard Heyer and Marco Büchler (Natural Language Processing / CS, University of Leipzig)
The workshop is compiled NOT only by presentations of computer scientists BUT researchers from humanities and infrastructure as well. HUMANISTS ARE VERY WELCOME!!!
Dates:
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Conference Sept. 27th - Oct. 1st, 2010
eHumanities workshop: Thursday Sept. 30th.
Registration details:
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**Early bird registration: July 30th, 2010**
Registration page: http://www.informatik2010.de/480.html
Workshop description: [read more...]
Location
Leipzig
Germany
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event: TEI 2010
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Thu, 22/07/2010 - 16:20 11/11/2010
14/11/2010
Registration for the 2010 TEI Conference, Members Meeting, and Workshops is now open at http://www.tei-shop.org/. The meeting will take place November 11-14 at the University of Zadar, Zadar Croatia. Pre-conference Workshops will be held November 8-10. See the conference website: http://ling.unizd.hr/%7Etei2010/
The theme of the conference is “TEI Applied: Digital Texts and Language Resources,” though papers and posters on other subjects are also included. [read more...]
Location
Zadar
Croatia
job: Tate: Application Developer (Java)
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Thu, 22/07/2010 - 15:59Application Deadline:
26/07/2010
Job Title: Application Developer
Closing date: 26 July 2010
Location: Millbank, London
Contract Type: Fixed-term for 1 Year, Full time
The aim of Tate is to promote public understanding and enjoyment of British art from the 16th century to the present day, and of international modern and contemporary art.
Integral to the successful delivery of Tate's online strategy, you'll be joining Tate's team of highly-skilled application developers creating a radical new user experience of the online collection. [read more...]
event: Copyright and Digital Media
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Thu, 22/07/2010 - 14:49 04/08/2010 10:00
04/08/2010 16:30
This informative and stimulating course is run by a leading expert in copyright. It looks in-depth at how copyright and other legal issues impact upon digital media and it will enable you to develop practical approaches to clearing and managing those rights within your own collections.
Audience [read more...]
Location
ILRT, 8-10 Berkeley Square
Bristol BS8 1HHUnited Kingdom
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job: Project Manager: Museology (British Museum)
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Thu, 22/07/2010 - 14:39Application Deadline:
26/07/2011
To project manage the curatorial programme and interpretive planning and museography processes within the British Museum’s input to the development of the new Zayed National Museum (ZNM), Abu Dhabi, from brief stage to closure and evaluation.
Ref: 77155W
Salary: £37,084 per annum
Contract: Fixed Term, 23 months
Department: ZNM Project
Application deadline: 12 noon, 26 July 2010
job: Programme Manager - British Museum
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Thu, 22/07/2010 - 14:37Application Deadline:
26/07/2011
To project manage the curatorial programme and interpretive planning and museography processes within the British Museum’s input to the development of the new Zayed National Museum (ZNM), Abu Dhabi, from brief stage to closure and evaluation.
Ref: 77156W
Salary: £43,285 per annum
Contract: Fixed term, 23 months
Department: ZNM Project
Application deadline: 12 noon, 26 July 2010
event: Dare to share: new approaches to long-term collections management
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Thu, 22/07/2010 - 13:54 06/09/2010
A Research Libraries UK and Preservation Advisory Centre joint conference exploring how collaborative activities can form part of a strategic approach to collections management across research and higher education institutions. [read more...]
Location
183 Euston Road, Wellcome Collection Conference Centre
London NW1 2BEUnited Kingdom
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