arts-humanities.net

Project start date: 2007-09
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. It aims 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 records information on digital scholarship, mostly through a catalogue of arts and humanities research projects and a taxonomy of methods used in digital research (mostly for creating digital resources), and related activities, such as academic events. The site catalogues information on activities such as projects, tools, methods, events and calls for papers; it also provides more in-depth information through briefing papers and case studies; and it has an interactive component that allows members to comment on these resources, contribute information and post announcements and participate in discussions. It also gives members access to profiles for over 1300 other members, to facilitate networking. The project was initially developed for the AHRC ICT Methods Network and was later merged with the ICT Guides project.
Methods usedCategory
2d graphic designPractice-led research
Accessibility analysisStrategy and project management
Resource sharingCommunication and collaboration
Cataloguing and indexingData structuring and enhancement
Human factors analysisStrategy and project management
Image manipulationPractice-led research
Iterative designStrategy and project management
Server scriptingData publishing and dissemination
Textual interaction (asynchronous)Communication and collaboration
Usability analysisStrategy and project management
Interface designData publishing and dissemination
Video and moving image compressionData structuring and enhancement
Web browser scriptingData publishing and dissemination
Collaborative publishingData publishing and dissemination
General website developmentData publishing and dissemination
User contributed contentData publishing and dissemination
General project managementStrategy and project management
Funding sources: 
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Content types created: 
Dataset/structured data, Moving Image, Sound, Still Image/Graphics, Text
Software tools used: 
MySQL, PHP, Drupal
Source material used:  
The website contains different materials, some contributed by the user community, others by project staff. Some materials were digitised during events, but most content is entered directly either by project staff or members of the community.
Digital resource created:  
The dynamic arts-humanities.net website, powered by the open source content management system Drupal. The website contains mostly textual information (records of projects, tools, events, but also blog and forum postings, job adverts, case studies, briefing papers and a bibliography), but also image and audio-visual content (mostly recordings of conferences and workshops).
Data Formats created: 
Flash Video (FLV), Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), Apple QuickTime Movie (MOV), Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML), Graphics interchange format file (GIF), JPEG File Interchange Format (JPG), Microsoft Word Document (DOC), MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (MP3), Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
Generation of XHTML files from MySQL database for web-delivery.
Metadata standards employed: 
Dublin Core, simple (DC)

Institutions affiliated with this project: 

UK HE institutions involved:
King's College London

Project staff and expertise: 

Principal staff member:SheilaAnderson
Other staff:Postdoctoral researcher(s) / Research assistant(s)
External expertise:


Metadata on this arts-humanities.net record
Author(s) of recordTorsten Reimer
Titlearts-humanities.net
Record created2010-02-09
Record updated2011-05-11 16:55
URL of recordhttp://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3327
Citation of recordTorsten Reimer: arts-humanities.net.
<http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3327>
created: 2010-02-09, last updated 2011-05-11 16:55