page: About arts-humanities.net: Digital Arts & Humanities
Our mission as arts and humanities network 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.
Join now and discover the digital arts and humanities.
arts-humanities.net is developed by the Centre for e-Research (CeRch) at King's College London (KCL) and coordinated by Torsten Reimer. The original development was done by Torsten for the AHRC ICT Methods Network. After the initial AHRC funding, arts-humanities.net is now supported by JISC.
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. 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.
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.
AHeSSC, the Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre: contributes briefing papers and case studies and uses arts-humanities.net as their community platform.
Chart, Computers and the History of Art: this group 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 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.
Banner
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)
