ICTGuides is a project designed to assist arts and humanities researchers build and use digital projects and resources. It is was initially developed by the Arts and Humanities Data Service (1996-2008) with funding from both JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) and the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council). During the first stage of development, the projects chosen to populate the database primarily derive from successfully AHRC funded projects in the UK.

ICTGuides was developed to provide a showcase for digital arts and humanities projects along with the computational tools and methods used in their production. In listing projects in this way, it was hoped that a community of practitioners would develop that would make contact with each other and discuss the issues that would lead to the creation of further high quality tools and projects. ICTGuides is now incorporated within Arts-Humanities.net Drupal framework so as to fully embrace the community component of these activities.

It is hosted and maintained by the Centre for eResearch at Kings College, London, and came about as a result of the amalgamation of two projects:

• The AHDS Projects and Methods Database, supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
• The Aria project, conducted jointly by Knowledge Media Design at De Montfort University and The University of Salford, and supported by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the AHRC.

Credits

For the Arts and Humanities Data Service:

• Project director: Sheila Anderson.
• Project research assistant: Valentina Asciutti
• Previous research associate: Craig Bellamy.
• Previous developer: Vijay Albuquerque.
• Previous research assistant: Reto Speck (who developed the database design, the administrative processes, and the methods taxonomy for the database).
• Previous Project administrator: Martha Brundin.

For more information, visit the AHDS PMDB Project Page.

For the Previous Aria Project:

• Project director: Stephen Brown at De Montfort University.
• Project associate director: Paul Sermon at The University of Salford.
• Project manager: Robert Ross at De Montfort University.
• Project research assistant: Vivian W. Liang at The University of Salford.
• Project designer / developer: David Gerrard at De Montfort University.

For more information about the previous Aria project, visit: Aria.