Friday 3rd October 2008, Melbourne, Australia

Organisers

Mark Hedges, Tobias Blanke, Stuart Dunn: Centre for e-Research, King's College London;
John Byron: Australian Academy of the Humanities
 

Description of Workshop

This workshop aims to stimulate discussions between the UK and Australasian arts, humanities and cultural heritage communities about the use of e-Research infrastructures, services, technologies and methodologies. In recent years, several grass-roots initiatives in the UK culminated in a national e-Science programme for the arts and humanities. Early adopters are experimenting and systematically investigating what e-Research could mean for practitioners as diverse as musicologists, archaeologists or archivists of cultural heritage data. The workshop will compare, explore links and develop synergies between these activities and the emerging agenda for arts, humanities and cultural heritage e-Research in Australasia.

The workshop will focus on how the take-up of e-Research infrastructures and approaches is developing new areas of research in these communities, including the performing arts and humanities research. The arts and humanities are facing a similar situation that has led in the sciences to the establishment of national e-infrastructures for research. There is a data deluge in the humanities, resulting from two complementary developments. Firstly, analogue data is being transformed into digitised form; the Google Books project is just one high-profile example. Secondly, contemporary history is increasingly recorded digitally, posing a huge data challenges for researchers of the human condition. This workshop will investigate how e-Research can provide answers to enable digital research in the humanities.

With the workshop, we would like to promote discussion and to develop ideas that will extend the community employing e-Research infrastructures, services, technologies and methodologies in the arts, humanities and cultural heritage. We welcome anybody interested in this agenda, researchers, tool developers, and anybody interested in arts and humanities e-Research.

Structure of Workshop

The structure of the workshop will be as follows:

09:00 - 09.45: Welcome and presentation by Mike Fulford

9.45 - 12:30: Short presentations and discussion

• Steven Hayes and Ian Johnson. Why relations matter: building integrated databases for the web
• Paul Turnbull and Mark Fallu. Making cross-cultural history in networked digital media
• Dianna Hardy, Matthew Morgan, Ian Atkinson, Sue McGinty, Yvonne Cadet-James, Agnes Hannan and Robert James. Enabling Lightweight Video Annotation and Presentation for Cultural Heritage
• Joanne Evans. Designing for diversity: 'fitting many sizes' rather than 'one size fits all'
• Katie Cavanagh. The Important but Neglected Role of Users: How Humanities e-Researchers Can Come to Love Infrastructure
• Elzbieta Majocha. So many new tools, so hard to use them!
• Peter Sefton. Priming digital humanities support services: a case study in visual ethnography

13.30 - 16.15: Short presentations and discussion 

• Tobias Blanke, Mark Hedges and Stuart Dunn. Grassroots Research in Arts and Humanities e-Science in the UK
• Anthony Austin and Brian Fitzgerald. Academic Authors, Publishing and Open Access in an
• Peter Higgs. Business data commons: implementing a strategy for addressing the information needs of creative businesses
• Salvatore Scifo, Salvatore Simone Parisi, Gaetano Foti, Gianluca Arcidiacono, Ferdinando Portuese and Roberto Barbera. ADAT - Archivio Digitale Antichi Testi
• Antonio Calanducci, Alessandro De Filippo, Stefania Iannizzotto, Monica Saso and Giuseppe Andronico. Digital Libraries on the Grid to preserve cultural heritage
• Eric Yen and Simon Lin. Data Management and Resource Integration for e-Research
• Andreas Aschenbrenner and Jens Mittelbach. TextGrid - Towards a National e-Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities in Germany

16.15 - 17.00: Workshop panel session