Network of Expert Centres

The Network of Expert Centres is a collaboration of centres with expertise in digital arts and humanities, in the sense of data creation, curation, preservation, management (including rights and legal issues), access and dissemination, and methodologies of data use and re-use. Its membership is open to all such centres in the UK.

Its purpose is to support its members in the advocacy and promotion of the value, understanding and use of ICT in arts and humanities research (broadly defined), the development and exchange of expertise, knowledge, standards and best practices, awareness raising, dialogue with relevant stakeholders, identifying and representing the needs of the research community.

The Network of Expert Centres user group keeps you up to date with news from the Network.

For all further questions regarding the Network, contact Lorna Hughes.

Members are, in alphabetical order:

centre: Archaeology Data Service (ADS)

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Institution: 
University of York
About the centre:

The Archaeology Data Service (ADS) is part of the Department of Archaeology at the University of York. The ADS supports research, learning and teaching with high quality and dependable digital resources. It does this by preserving digital data in the long term, and by promoting and disseminating a broad range of data in archaeology. [read more...]

centre: Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH)

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Institution: 
King's College London
About the centre:

The Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) is in the School of Humanities at King's College London and is an international leader in the application of technology in research in the arts and humanities, and in the social sciences. The primary objective of the CCH is to foster awareness, understanding and skill in the scholarly applications of computing. [read more...]

centre: Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis (CDDA)

Institution: 
Queen's University Belfast
About the centre:

The Centre is a research unit with interests in temporal Geographical Information Systems, the development of electronic research resources, e-Science and Grid technologies. It provides a comprehensive digitisation service to create key e-resources including capture of material, quality assurance, data post-processing and data delivery to user requirements. [read more...]

centre: Centre for e-Research (CeRch)

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Institution: 
King's College London
About the centre:

The Centre for e-Research (CeRch) is located in the Information Services and Systems department of King's College London with a broad remit to work across discipline areas. The Centre works at the intersection between research methods and practice, digital informatics, and e-infrastructure development and practice. [read more...]

centre: History Data Service (HDS)

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Institution: 
Universities of Essex
About the centre:

The History Data Service collects, preserves, and promotes the use of digital resources, which result from or support historical research, learning and teaching. The History Data Service is a successor service to AHDS History which from 1996 to March 2008 was one of the five centres of the Arts and Humanities Data Service. [read more...]

centre: Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute (HATII)

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Institution: 
University of Glasgow
About the centre:

HATII is one of the world's leading centres for computing and information studies in the arts and humanities. The Institute offers a pioneering joint honours undergraduate degree in Arts and Media Informatics as well as innovative Masters degrees in Information Management and Preservation and Computer Forensics and e-Discovery. [read more...]

centre: Humanities Research Institute (HRI)

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Institution: 
University of Sheffield
About the centre:

The award-winning Humanities Research Institute at the University of Sheffield is one of the leading providers of research and development services for the digital Arts and Humanities. With over 16 years experience, our mission is to support the innovative use of technology within Arts and Humanities research as both a method of inquiry and a means of dissemination. [read more...]

centre: The Oxford Text Archive (OTA)

Institution: 
University of Oxford
About the centre:

The Oxford Text Archive (OTA) develops, collects, catalogues and preserves electronic literary and linguistic resources. We also give advice on the creation and use of these resources, and are involved in the development of standards and infrastructure for electronic language resources. [read more...]

centre: VADS - Visual Arts Data Service

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Institution: 
University for the Creative Arts
About the centre:

VADS is the online resource for visual arts. It has provided services to the academic community for 11 years and has built up a considerable portfolio of visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in teaching, learning and research in the UK. [read more...]