group: 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: Adding Value to Data: Special Session at the 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science
Submitted by Lydia Horstman on Mon, 10/11/2008 - 16:02.This is the final programme for a Special Session at the 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science, Indianapolis, USA.
http://dresnet.net/ieee-escience-2008-agenda
MORNING SESSION
9.30am-10.30am
Keynote by David de Roure, title TBC
10:30am-10:45am
Virtual Poster Presentation: Aschenbrenner, Andreas; Blanke, Tobias; [read more...]
forum: Shut all our websites down
Submitted by Torsten Reimer on Thu, 23/10/2008 - 14:00.I am proposing to turn off all online resources for the digital arts and humanities. Really? Really! Well, almost. [read more...]
blog: Journal of Virtual Worlds Research
Submitted by stuartdunn on Fri, 10/10/2008 - 08:33.The new Journal of Virtual Worlds Research looks well worth checking out. See http://jvwresearch.org/.
-Stuart
job: 13 PhD positions in new EU funded Marie Curie Initial Training Network:
Submitted by lteixeira on Sat, 30/08/2008 - 23:03.PhD Positions in Creative Design - Lancaster, UK, and Europe
Deadline: 15 September 2008
Source: Porto, 30 August 2008
Submitted by Luis Teixeira
Network Coordinator: Lancaster University, UK
PARTNERS
- Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands
- Copenhagen Business School in Denmark
- University of Milan in Italy
- The Portuguese Catholic University in Portugal [read more...]
job: 2 X Research Associate at CITAR, Portugal
Submitted by lteixeira on Sat, 30/08/2008 - 22:56.The Research Centre of Science and Technology in the Arts of the Portuguese Catholic University (UCP-CITAR), in Porto, Portugal, seeks two candidates with Ph.D. in one of following fields: Visual Arts, Electronic Arts and Multimedia, Design Studies, Interactive/Multimedia Design or in similar areas. [read more...]
blog: CALLAS Project
Submitted by stuartdunn on Wed, 06/08/2008 - 09:04.CALLAS Project
http://www.callas-newmedia.eu/
The CALLAS Integrated Project aims to design and to develop a multimodal architecture which will include emotional aspects in order to support applications in the new media business scenario with an “ambient intelligence” paradigm. [read more...]
blog: Wired : The Petabyte Age: Because More Isn't Just More — More Is Different
Submitted by tobiasb on Sun, 13/07/2008 - 20:32.My friend Andi from TextGrid pointed me to WIRED MAGAZINE: Issue 16.07.
The Petabyte Age: Because More Isn't Just More — More Is Different: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_i...
The End of Science: The Quest for knowledge used to begin with grand theories. Now it begins with massive amounts of data. Welcome to the Petabyte Age. [read more...]
blog: A Supercomputer Takes Humanities Scholars Into the 21st Century
Submitted by tobiasb on Sun, 13/07/2008 - 10:37.The Chronicle of Higher Education published this article on the new NEH initiative on HPC: http://chronicle.com/free/2008/04/2580n.htm
"We are offering one million hours of high-performance computing," said Brett Bobley, director of the endowment's new Office of Digital Humanities.
blog: 4th International Digital Curation Conference - Radical Sharing: Transforming Science? CfP
Submitted by Torsten Reimer on Wed, 02/07/2008 - 15:57.Closing Date for Submissions: 25 July 2008
In partnership with the National e-Science Centre and supported by the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) we are holding our 4th International Digital Curation Conference on 1-3 December 2008 at the Hilton Edinburgh Grosvenor hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland. [read more...]
forum: Interactive Digital Art Project: 3D visualisation of opinion polls
Submitted by PolygonPainter on Mon, 30/06/2008 - 14:21.Hello!
I'm an artist working with digital media, specifically 3D CG software. I'm currently working on a project that uses online questionnaires to generate data that feeds into a 3D scene. At the most essential level, it's a live 3D graph. [read more...]
event: e-Humanities – an emerging discipline
Submitted by Lydia Horstman on Tue, 24/06/2008 - 12:06.Workshop in the 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science held at University Place Conference Center and Hotel, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. [read more...]
blog: NEH Seeking Research Ideas Using High Performance Computing
Submitted by Torsten Reimer on Mon, 02/06/2008 - 09:44.From the NEH: "The NEH's Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) recently launched a Humanities High Performance Computing (HHPC) initiative. As part of this initiative we're offering several grant programs and other opportunities to provide time on the U.S. Department of Energy's high performance computers, as well as grant money and training. [read more...]
forum: Helen Bailey - e-Dance
Submitted by Torsten Reimer on Fri, 30/05/2008 - 14:34.Helen Bailey is Principal Lecturer at the Department of Performing Arts & English, University of Bedfordshire. She has specialised teaching interests in choreography, dance-theatre performance, and the integration of dance and contemporary media. [read more...]
blog: Humanities High Performance Computing (HHPC)
Submitted by Torsten Reimer on Thu, 15/05/2008 - 09:56.The following email may be of interest to those of you who are not subscribed to the Humanist mailing list:
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 06:30:49 +0100
From: "Bobley, Brett"
Subject: Humanities High Performance Computing (HHPC)
Willard and Humanist Readers, [read more...]
forum: e-Science projects meeting (Arts and Humanities)
Submitted by Torsten Reimer on Wed, 07/05/2008 - 09:55.We are currently at the e-Science Institute for a meeting of the arts and humanities e-Science projects that are funded by AHRC, EPSRC and JISC. We have opened this thread to capture some thoughts during and especially after todays discussion.
event: UK e-Science 2008 All Hands Meeting: Crossing Boundaries: Computational Science, E-Science and Global E-Infrastructures
Submitted by Torsten Reimer on Mon, 28/04/2008 - 10:34.The overall theme for this year's UK e-Science AHM is /Crossing Boundaries./ The appointment of Professor Peter Coveney as Programme Chair heralds a new approach and, t his year, key papers from the meeting will be published in two back to back editions of /Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A / in the early part of 2009, with the title "Crossing Boundaries: [read more...]
blog: Edutainment
Submitted by tobiasb on Wed, 05/03/2008 - 14:12.Hi.
just found this great game produced by Cern Multimedia productions to educate people on the Grid: http://gridcafe.web.cern.ch/gridcafe/AmaltheaWindows.zip
There is also a fascinating video: http://gridcafe.web.cern.ch/gridcafe/animations/amalthea.rm
I did not know that working on Grids means saving the world.
blog: Using OGSA-DAI to Grid enable data for the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, e-science
Submitted by tobiasb on Fri, 29/02/2008 - 18:54.OGSA-DAI is an extendable toolkit middleware to expose data resources to grids. These resources may be relational databases, XML-databases, or files - and extensions can be developed to permit OGSA-DAI to support additional resources (such as the Open Geospatial Consortium web services used by the geographical communities). [read more...]
blog: Arts and Humanities e-Science Scoping Survey
Submitted by Torsten Reimer on Thu, 28/02/2008 - 16:41.The final report for the AHDS e-Science Scoping Survey, funded by the AHRC, is now available. This report, written by Sheila Anderson, Principal Investigator of the Survey, provides an assessment of the opportunities available to the arts and humanities research communities by exploiting e-science tools and technologies. [read more...]
event: Aspects of Space and Time in Humanities e-Science
Submitted by Torsten Reimer on Tue, 26/06/2007 - 15:41.This lecture is part of the e-Science in the Arts and Humanities theme at the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh. This lecture will be simultaneously webcast and available on demand after the event.
Dr Stuart Jeffrey, AHDS Archaeology [read more...]
event: e-Science and Performance
Submitted by Torsten Reimer on Tue, 26/06/2007 - 15:35.This lecture is part of the e-Science in the Arts and Humanities theme at the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh. This lecture will be simultaneously webcast and available on demand after the event. [read more...]
event: Grid Enabling Humanities Datasets
Submitted by Torsten Reimer on Tue, 26/06/2007 - 15:27.This lecture is part of the e-Science in the Arts and Humanities theme at the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh. This lecture will be simultaneously webcast and available on demand after the event.
Shirley Crompton, Scientific Database Services, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Daresbury Laboratory e-Science Centre [read more...]
event: Collaborative Text Editing
Submitted by Lydia Horstman on Thu, 14/06/2007 - 17:12.This lecture will be simultaneously webcast and available on demand after the event.
Speakers
Gabriel Bodard, King's College London
Open Source Critical (= Transparent, Technically Explicit, and Collaborative) Editions [read more...]
event: Ontologies and Semantic Interoperability for Humanities Data
Submitted by Lydia Horstman on Thu, 14/06/2007 - 17:07.This lecture will be simultaneously webcast and available on demand after the event. [read more...]
event: Methods and Technologies for Enabling Virtual Research Communities
Submitted by Lydia Horstman on Thu, 14/06/2007 - 17:04.This lecture will be simultaneously webcast and available on demand after the event.
PART 1 The Potential of Access Grid for Collaborative Research in the Arts and Humanities
David Shepherd, University of Sheffield
Andrew Prescott, University of Wales Lampeter [read more...]
