e-Science

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: UCL Tesla Talk - Amanda Wilson: Cubes, Rocks and Clouds: Multistable Perception of Art-Science Imagery -- http://tesla.byethost10.com/

09/05/2012 18:00
09/05/2012 19:00

"Cubes, Rocks and Clouds: Multistable Perception of Art-Science Imagery"
http://tesla.byethost10.com/ [read more...]

Location

UCL, Grawood Lecture Theatre
Gower Street more details at http://tesla.byethost10.com/
London WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom

event: CeRch seminar, 28th Feb: Building an Ontology of Creativity

28/02/2012 18:15

Creativity is a complex and multi-dimensional concept that encompasses
many related aspects, abilities, properties and behaviours and can be
viewed from many different perspectives. Difficulties in identifying a
comprehensive, widely-accepted definition of creativity have hindered
progress in computational creativity research as researchers have no
baseline to evaluate against or standards to aim towards. An important,
related issue is that of defining creativity in a machine-readable
format, such that a computational creativity system has a sufficient [read more...]

Location

Anatomy Theatre, Kings College London
United Kingdom

event: IHR Digital History Seminar Spring Series

21/02/2012 16:52
30/03/2012 21:00

IHR Digital History Seminar Spring Series

Tuesdays 5:15pm Senate House (various locations), University of London

21 February Magnus Huber (Giessen)
'The Old Bailey Corpus: Spoken English in the 18th and 19th Centuries'
Room ST276, Stewart House, second floor

6 March Dan Cohen (George Mason)
'Finding Meaning in a Million Victorian Books'
S261 (Senate House, second floor)

20 March Adam Farquhar(British Library), Andrew Prescott(KCL), Melissa Terras(UCL)
The Future of the Past (round table session)
S261 (Senate House, second floor) [read more...]

job: Digital Humanities Specialist

Application Deadline: 
24/02/2012

The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) project funded by the US National Science Foundation is looking to engage the services of a specialist in a Digital Humanities support role. The position can be filled via a consulting contract or on a sub-award basis, depending on an applicant's particular circumstance, and compensation will be commensurate with experience and qualifications. [read more...]

event: The Collaborations Workshop 2012

21/03/2012
22/03/2012

The Collaborations Workshop 2012 (CW12) gets researchers and software developers working together to solve research problems. If you’re a researcher who wants to make more of software, or a developer who wants to work with researchers, the workshop is the perfect opportunity to meet new collaborators.

Registration

To register for the Collaborations Workshop, visit the registration website:
http://www.epay.ed.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modi... [read more...]

Location

Queen's College, University of Oxford
United Kingdom

event: Digital Humanities at King's College London: Talks and Lectures

25/01/2012

To mark the merger of the Centre for e-Research with the Department of Digital Humanities and the appointment of Professor Andrew Prescott as Head of the
Department of Digital Humanities, a series of events will take place at King’s College London on Wednesday 25 January. Admission is free and all are welcome to all or any of the events.

Please help us in estimating numbers for catering by booking in advance at the
Eventbrite urls given below.
- Lynne Siemens, University of Victoria, 'Interdisciplinary Collaborations across [read more...]

Location

King's College London, Strand Campus London
United Kingdom

event: Digital Transformations of Research and Styles of Knowing

17/01/2012 18:15

In recent years, large-scale research programmes have been implemented across the globe with labels like e-Science, e-Infrastructure and cyberinfrastructure (Meyer and Schroeder 2009). It has been argued that these various digital transformations have fundamentally changed how research is done. In this paper, we challenge this argument, and suggest instead that there are more specific changes in particular areas of research that have taken place. [read more...]

Location

Anatomy Museum
The Strand 6th Floor, King's Building King's College London, Strand Campus
London WC2R 2LS
United Kingdom

event: Future Perfect 2012

26/03/2012 08:00
27/03/2012 17:00

The programme for Future Perfect 2012 is available online:
http://archives.govt.nz/advice/government-digital-archive-pr...

The theme of Future Perfect 2012 – Digital Preservation by Design – seeks to stimulate discussion about how, when and why influencing the design of systems can support digital preservation and ultimately ensure that today's information is available tomorrow. Future Perfect 2012 will be a two day conference featuring many exciting international and New Zealand speakers. [read more...]

Location

Wellington
New Zealand

event: Trust and E-journals

31/01/2012

Registration is now open for a DPC briefing day on the topic of ‘Trust and E-journals’ at the Wellcome Library, London on 31st January 2012: http://www.dpconline.org/events/details/39-trust?xref=39 [read more...]

Location

Wellcome Library London
United Kingdom

event: Preservation Of Complex Objects Symposia (POCOS)

26/01/2012
26/01/2012

Preservation Of Complex Objects Symposia (POCOS)

We are pleased to announce the 3rd POCOS Symposium on Preservation of Games and Virtual Worlds:

• 26-27 January 2012
• The Novotel Hotel, Cardiff, UK
• Organised by the Future-Proof Computing Group, University of Portsmouth, UK.
• Symposium Fee: Free + £10 donation for refreshments (payable at the event)

Online registration: http://www.pocos.org/index.php/registration [read more...]

Location

The Novotel Hotel Cardiff
United Kingdom

event: Natural History Museum and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Conference "Wallich and Indian Natural History: Collection Dispersal and the Cultivation of Knowledge"

06/12/2011 10:00
07/12/2011 18:00

For more information and to register, please visit: http://wallich.eventbrite.com

Conference Abstract:
This international, interdisciplinary conference will be held on the 6th and 7th December, 2011 at The Natural History Museum, London and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew on the general theme of South Asian natural history collections, with a special emphasis on those of the Danish botanist Nathaniel Wallich (1786–1854). Wallich is a major figure in the history and development of botany in the nineteenth century. As Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden between 1817 and 1846, he undertook botanical expeditions, described new plant species, collected thousands of plant specimens amassing a large herbarium, and commissioned local artists to draw beautiful botanical watercolours. His work has therefore been extremely influential in South Asian natural history research. [read more...]

Location

Natural History Museum, London (6th December) and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (7th December)
United Kingdom

event: DHLU Symposium 2012 ‘Websites as sources’

20/03/2012
23/03/2012

WEBSITES AS SOURCES:
How should humanities and social sciences approach, use and diffuse publicly available online sources? [read more...]

Location

Luxembourg
Luxembourg

event: The Digital Preservation Training Programme

14/11/2011
16/11/2011

The DPTP is a modular training programme, built around themed sessions that have been developed to assist you in designing and implementing an approach to preservation that will work for your institution. Through a wide range of modules, the DPTP examines the need for policies, planning, strategies, standards and procedures in digital preservation, and teaches some of the most up-to-date methods, tools and concepts in the area. It covers these topics via a mixture of lectures, discussions, practical tasks and exercises, and a class project. [read more...]

Location

School of Oriental and Africa Studies (SOAS)
Thornhaugh Street Brunei Gallery, University of London
London WC1H 0XG
United Kingdom

event: MCN 2011 - Hacking The Museum

16/11/2011
19/11/2011

The annual Museum Computer Network (MCN) conference brings together a community of museum professionals interested in using technology to improve their organizations and enhance the visitor experience. It is not a conference purely for technologists - it's for anyone who wants to explore exciting opportunities, and tackle the unique challenges, associated with using technology in museums. This year's theme emphasizes the growing effort among our community to encourage a culture of innovation, agility and collaboration in their organizations. [read more...]

Location

Atlanta
United States

CfP: The Connected Past: people, networks and complexity in archaeology and history

Closing Date: 
20/11/2011

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Connected Past: people, networks and complexity in archaeology and history

University of Southampton 24-25 March 2012
http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/
Organisers: Tom Brughmans, Anna Collar, Fiona Coward

Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Carl Knappett and Professor Alex Bentley [read more...]

event: The Connected Past

24/03/2012
25/03/2012

The Connected Past: people, networks and complexity in archaeology and history

A two-day collaborative, multi-disciplinary symposium
The University of Southampton
24-25 March 2012 [read more...]

Location

The University of Southampton Southampton
United Kingdom

job: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Lecturer - Screen Studies

Application Deadline: 
17/10/2011

POSITION:
Lecturer: Screen Studies

PURPOSE OF POSITION
The Lecturer: Screen Studies, is responsible for the delivery and coordination of courses in the School. This position will also assume responsibility for the supervision of postgraduate research students. The incumbent will conduct teaching and related activities, publish and engage in research and consult with students as part of the teaching team. Specifically the areas include film studies, history of classical cinema, production, documentary theory and the converged future of digital theory. [read more...]

job: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Senior Lecturer - Communication (Digital Media)

Application Deadline: 
17/10/2011

POSITION:
Senior Lecturer: Communication (Digital Media)

PURPOSE OF POSITION [read more...]

event: 11th International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications

21/09/2011 13:49
23/09/2011 13:49

Metadata Harmonization: Bridging Languages of Description

Resting at the heart of application profiles, metadata harmonization presents a little understood, but critical challenge in design of languages of description. DC-2011 will explore the conceptual and practical issues of design when the language solution calls for cross-fertilization from different metadata specifications. [read more...]

Location

Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands) The Hague
United Kingdom
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