page: About arts-humanities.net: Digital Arts & Humanities
Welcome to arts-humanities.net: Digital Arts & Humanities, a website where you can share and discuss ideas, promote your research and discover the digital arts and humanities - from text mining for historians to visualisation, electroacoustic music analysis, geospatial computing and advanced technologies for collaborative performance and real-time art making over high speed networks.
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 the AHRC ICT Methods Network. 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.
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.
Groups can use space on Digital Arts & Humanities with tools including wikis, fora and blogs and feed this content back into their websites – keeping their identity and gaining a larger audience to interact with and technical support. Digital Arts & Humanities will help you to build contacts and to stay up to date with what others are doing in this dynamic and dispersed field.
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.
As a member you can:
- announce activities in your field to a wide community using the ICT events calendar and keep up to date with what others are doing
- exchange your ideas and experience with the community in our group forums
- use blogs and other community tools to discuss your work and engage with others
- share your research interests and background in your profile and search others’ profiles make contact with colleagues and identify future collaborations
Several other groups support and contribute to Digital Arts & Humanities. These include:
For all questions regarding Digital Arts & Humanities, please contact Torsten Reimer. Please do also have a look at our help section.
Privacy statement
The only information you need to give during the registration is your name and email address. We will not share your email address with any other party, not even with registered members of this site. All other information you decide to make available in your user profile will be accessible, but only to registered users, not to the general public. You can always delete or change that information.
You can also control who has access to the postings you make on Digital Arts & Humanities - they can either be made available to members of specific user groups or to the general public. All comments you make on others' postings are accessible to the audience the original poster has chosen.
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/virtualvellum.html)
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)
