event: Second Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing in the Humanities

There are still some space available for this workshop.

To register, please complete the registration form on the sosornet website: http://sosornet.dcs.kcl.ac.uk and email it to Connie Bao (haoying.bao@kcl.ac.uk)

A joint workshop of the EPSRC Service-Oriented Software Research Network (SOSoRNet) and the AHRC ICT Methods Network King's College London, UK.

A key message to emerge from the first SOCH workshop, held at King's one year ago, is that communities of practice in the humanities are increasingly turning to service-oriented approaches as their data becomes ever more complex and dispersed. This second event will seek to provide those researchers a forum for intensive discussion, framed by a highly focused group of international speakers from the cutting edge of service-oriented research as applied to the humanities (with examples from music, archaeology and medieval history); as well as from academics working with tools and resources that have the potential to develop new research methodologies based around the service-oriented approach.

The programme of invited speakers will include:

- David de Roure, University of Southampton
- mc schraefel, University of Southampton
- Michael Meredith, University of Sheffield
- Stuart Jeffrey, Archaeology Data Service
- Xavier Llora, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

This workshop is likely to be of interest to any humanist researcher working with, or interested in, advanced network technologies, as well as to computer scientists who are interested in learning more about this new and rapidly developing area of application. Participation is free and open to all, but registration is essential.

To register, please complete the registration form on the sosornet website: http://sosornet.dcs.kcl.ac.uk and email it to Connie Bao (haoying.bao@kcl.ac.uk).

About SOSoRNet
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SOSorNet (http://sosornet.dcs.kcl.ac.uk) is an EPSRC-funded network
to bring together people working in the various communities
associated with service-oriented software e.g. Grid, web services,
application service provision etc. The aim is to promote the
cross-fertilisation of ideas between these communities.

SOSoRNet is organised by:

* Nicolas Gold, King's College London (network director)
* Pearl Brereton, Keele University
* Keith Bennett, David Budgen, Durham University
* Christos Tjortjis, Nikolay Mehandjiev, John Keane, Paul Layzell,
Manchester University
* Jie Xu, Leeds University

To join SOSorNet please email nicolas.gold@kcl.ac.uk or
kiarash.mahdavi@kcl.ac.uk.

What is SOSoRNet for?
- To share best-practice and research in service-oriented software
systems
- To bring together academic researchers and industrial practitioners
- To promote cross-fertilisation of ideas between communities

Who is it for?
Anyone involved in service-oriented software development and use e.g.
- Grid researchers
- Application service providers
- Users and developers of web services