event: Workshop at eResearch Australasia: e-Research in the Arts, Humanities and Cultural Heritage
This workshop aims to stimulate discussions between the UK and Australasian arts, humanities and cultural heritage communities about the use of e-Research infrastructures, services, technologies and methodologies. In recent years, several grass-roots initiatives in the UK culminated in a national e-Science programme for the arts and humanities. Early adopters are experimenting and systematically investigating what e-Research could mean for practitioners as diverse as musicologists, archaeologists or archivists of cultural heritage data. The workshop will compare, explore links and develop synergies between these activities and the emerging agenda for arts, humanities and cultural heritage e-Research in Australasia.
The workshop will focus on how the take-up of e-Research infrastructures and approaches is developing new areas of research in these communities, including the performing arts and humanities research. The arts and humanities are facing a similar situation that has led in the sciences to the establishment of national e-infrastructures for research. There is a data deluge in the humanities, resulting from two complementary developments. Firstly, analogue data is being transformed into digitised form; the Google Books project is just one high-profile example. Secondly, contemporary history is increasingly recorded digitally, posing a huge data challenges for researchers of the human condition. This workshop will investigate how e-Research can provide answers to enable digital research in the humanities.
With the workshop, we would like to promote discussion and to develop ideas that will extend the community employing e-Research infrastructures, services, technologies and methodologies in the arts, humanities and cultural heritage. We welcome anybody interested in this agenda, researchers, tool developers, and anybody interested in arts and humanities e-Research.
