eSI Public Lecture: "A Potential for All - e-Science for the Arts and Humanities" by David Robey and Sheila Anderson

In Association with eSI Thematic Programme: e-Science in the Arts and Humanities

30 April, 2007 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM

e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh

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The e-Science Institute is delighted to host a public lecture by Ms Sheila Anderson and Professor David Robey. The public lecture is open to all interested parties in academia and industry. There is no need to register for this event and those attending the lecture are invited to join us for tea and coffee at 1:30PM.

The on-demand webcast of the lecture will be available from the events material page from the begining of June.

Advanced technologies and methods above and beyond the Internet have been used in research for some years. Applying the term e-science, a label imported from the physical, life and medical sciences, collectively to these methods and technologies for the arts and humanities is not without problems. Yet the experience to date of the AHRC-JISC-EPSRC e-Science Initiative (see http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/e-science) has demonstrated an enormous potential for these disciplines, as arts and humanities scholars come to rely increasingly on electronic data resources, tools and methods. The Arts and Humanities e-Science Theme at the e-Science Institute seeks to bring together scholars in the arts and humanities who are already using e-science in their research, and and by so doing articulate the opportunities for new forms of research and collaboration that e-science can enable for *any* form of scholarship. The AHRC funded 'e-Science Scoping Survey', which Sheila Anderson directed, held seven expert seminars in the course of 2006, each chaired by an established subject based practitioner (http://ahds.ac.uk/e-science/e-science-scoping-study.htm):

  • Library and Information Studies (Melissa Terras, UCL)
  • Literary and Textual Studies (Peter Robinson, University of Birmingham)
  • Archaeology (William Kilbride, Glasgow Museums)
  • Historical Studies (Mark Greengrass, University of Sheffield)
  • Visual Arts (Sue Gollifer, University of Brighton)
  • Performing Arts (Angela Piccini, University of Bristol)
  • Linguistics (Paul Rayson, Lancaster University)
From these emerged a definition of e-science as 'The development and deployment of a networked infrastructure and culture through which resources - be they processing power, data, expertise, or person power - can be shared in a secure environment, in which new forms of collaboration can emerge, and new and advanced methodologies explored'. This lecture will provide an overview of the field based on the scoping survey, and explain how the Theme will develop and contribute to it to ensure that - potentially - any scholar can reap the benefits of becoming part of this culture. The lecture will be followed by a presentation from Professor David Robey, Director of the AHRC ICT in Arts and Humanities Research Programme, outlining the AHRC/JISC/EPSRC e-science programme for the arts and humanities and its likely outcomes and impact, discussing in particular how it might act as a beacon for other researchers, encouraging them to engage in the future.

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http://www.ahessc.ac.uk/
http://wiki.esi.ac.uk/E-Science_in_the_Arts_and_Humanities
http://www.ahessc.ac.uk/theme
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/themes/theme_06/

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