The arts-humanities.net is an online hub for research and teaching in the digital arts and humanities. It enables members to locate information, promote their research and discuss ideas. Our aim is to support and advance the use and understanding of digital tools and methods for research and teaching in the arts and humanities – and all fields and disciplines working with(in) them. arts-humanities.net is a community driven resource that helps you to build contacts, find answers to your questions and share your research.

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arts-humanities.net is developed by the Centre for e-Research (CeRch) at King's College London (KCL) and coordinated by Torsten Reimer. arts-humanities.net incorporates several projects. The most important one being the ICT Guides database of projects and methods, developed by the Arts and Humanities Data Service (lead by Sheila Anderson, development of the taxonomy of research methods by Reto Speck), and the original arts-humanities.net that was developed by Torsten for the AHRC ICT Methods Network. After the initial AHRC funding, arts-humanities.net is now supported by JISC. Core project staff are Torsten Reimer and Valentina Asciutti; the group is managed by Lorna Hughes.

A community resource

While CeRch hosts the site and co-ordinates the development, our project is a collaboration with various groups, projects and individuals and open for anyone to join. arts-humanities.net also has a community advisory group that provides input and feedback on the development of the project.

Currently, the following projects and groups contribute to arts-humanities.net:

The Network Expert of Centres: a group of UK research centres with expertise in fields such as digital curation and preservation. arts-humanities.net is both the homepage and community engagement platform for the Network.

We are also working with CHAIN, the Coalition of Humanities and Arts Infrastructures and Networks, a new international initiative that facilitates international cooperation. arts-humanities.net will serve as the homepage for the coalition and host/support materials and activities.

The ICT Guides project, a JISC funded knowledge base with information on tools, methods and project in the digital arts and humanities. ICT Guides and the original arts-humanities.net project have merged.

The Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) in Ireland. We cooperate with the DHO in developing classification systems such as the taxonomy of methods. The Oxford e-Research Centre has also joined this group.

AHeSSC, the Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre: contributes briefing papers and case studies and uses arts-humanities.net as their community platform.

Interacting with our community will help you to build contacts and to stay up to date with what others are doing in this dynamic and dispersed field. The site supports blogs for individual users and groups, wikis, discussion fora and multi-media content and can aggregate content from other sites via RSS. To facilitate networking there are an events calendar and user profiles.

All content can be tagged, which makes it easy to find interesting materials and even to integrate it into other websites. Interested in archaeology, visualization or digital sound generation? Just copy the relevant RSS feed into your site and you will automatically get new updates.

You will need to register to participate in discussions and publish materials, but most content is available to everyone.

Questions

For all questions please contact Torsten Reimer. Please do also have a look at our help section and the privacy statement. arts-humanities.net is built using the open source content management system Drupal.

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The website banner features images taken from the following sources:

Reusable Learning Object produced for the Centre for Excellence in Teaching. Image used with permission of Carl Smith, Learning Teaching Technology Institute.

Archaeological data and 3d visualization overlay for interpretation and visualization of archaeological data. Coventry and District Archaeology Society. Copyright: King's Visualization Lab.

Reconstruction of stage set depicted in the House of the Cryptoportico fresco. Copyright King's Visualization Lab.

Screenshot from Virtual Vellum project. Image used with permission of Peter Ainsworth, University of Sheffield (http://www.shef.ac.uk/hri/projects/projectpages/virtualvellu...)

Sample of a digitally restored music manuscript. Taken from the Digital Restoration for Damaged Documents Workbook by Julia Craig-McFeely and Alan Lock (http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/activities/act5workbook.html)