Organiser(s)

Sheila Anderson, Lorna Hughes, Tobias Blanke, Stuart Dunn

Description of workshop

This workshop, led by the Arts & Humanities e-Science Support Centre (AHeSSC – www.ahessc.ac.uk ), aims to stimulate discussion around the creative and research uses of e-Science tools and methods (so-called grid technologies, and technologies integrated with them such as data-mining, simulation and visualization) in the arts and humanities within the UK . The workshop will focus on how the take-up of e-Science is developing new areas of research in the arts and humanities community, including the performing arts and humanities research.

The workshop aims to elicit expert critical opinion on the usage and applicability of e-Science in the arts and humanities. Previous arts and humanities workshops at the AHM's have looked at specific topics, in 2006 at the Arts and Humanities e-Science Scoping Study ( http://www.ahessc.ac.uk/scoping-study ), in 2007 at the implications of e-Science for textual analysis in academia and industry ( http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january08/dunn/01dunn.html ). This year we would like to summarize all existing activities and prepare an agenda for the future of e-Science and e-Infrastructures in the Arts and Humanities. With the workshop, we would like to promote discussion and to develop ideas that will extend the community employing e-Science methods in the Arts and Humanities. We welcome anybody interested in this agenda, researchers, tools developers, and anybody interested in arts and humanities e-Science.

Call for papers

We will invite contributions around (but not limited to) the following themes relevant to arts and humanities e-Science

• advanced arts and humanities research infrastructure scenarios
• advanced collaboration scenarios for geographically distributed collaborative research
• advanced arts and humanities data management and storage
• text and media integration, interoperability
• advanced computational modeling
• knowledge management in the arts and humanities including ontology development
• advanced discovery and analysis methods for arts and humanities data: text-mining, visualization, etc.
• use of e-Science tools and methodologies in practice-led research
• user interface design supporting advanced arts and humanities e-Research
• e-Science education and training for arts and humanities researchers
• legal and ethical issues: open access initiatives
• impact of e-Science on the research life cycle in arts and humanities - potential for developing workflows to support arts and humanities research