Introduction to e-Research in Arts and Humanities Workshop
Time: Wednesday 10th December 2008, 12:30- 16:30
Venue: University of Reading (HUMMS 25)
Introduction
Those providing e-Research services within the local area (Reading, Oxford, Southampton, Kings College London) are keen to encourage the use of e-Research technologies within the Arts and Humanities, to better understand the needs of users in this area, and to explore with academics how best those needs can be met. We define e-Research as "the application of advanced ICT methods to enhance and develop research across the whole range of academic disciplines".
As a starting point we will be holding a workshop in this area that will:
- present projects where e-Research has already been employed locally and in other institutions;
- discuss the types of research problems that could be facilitated through the use of e-Research technologies;
- introduce services which are available to help you begin to use e-Research; and
- discuss the barriers to using e-Research and what help and services we can provide to overcome these.
The workshop will take the form of short seminars followed by a round-table discussion in these areas and is open to all interested parties, although we would expect the majority of attendees to be Arts and Humanities researchers. Lunch and coffee will be provided.
The Report
A report about this workshop is available: Arts and Humanities Workshop Report
Questions
We wish to encourage contributions from all participants and ask for participants to consider these questions before the workshop or during the talks:
- How could your research benefit from the use of advanced ICT?
- What help would you find useful for making use of advanced ICT in your research?
- What are the barriers for you adopting advanced ICT in your research?
- Do you have any ideas for projects/collaborations which could be started in your area which would involve advanced ICT?
Programme and Slides
| 12:30 - 13:15 | Lunch |
| 13:15 - 13:30 | Introduction David Robey |
| 13:30 - 13:50 | e-Research in the Arts and Humanities: the A&H e-Science Programme Stuart Dunn, Centre for e-Research, KCL (presented by Elpiniki Fragkouli) |
| 13:50 - 14:10 | Transcribing Ancient Documents: towards an Interpretation Support System Alan Bowman, Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, Oxford |
| 14:10 - 14:30 | Corpora: Resources for the study of language Paul Thompson, Applied Linguistics, Reading |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | musicSpace David Bretherton, Music, Southampton |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Archaeology and Silchester Roman Town Amanda Clarke, Archaeology, Reading |
| 15:10 - 16:00 | General Discussions |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee |