1. A&H E-SCIENCE Stuart Dunn AHeSSC Centre for e-Research, King’s College London E-Science Institute, 7th May 2008

2. ‘ 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' Arts and Humanities e-Science in the UK - AHDS e-Science Scoping Study, 2006

3. Arts and Humanities e-Science in the UK 2005: AHRC-JISC e-Science Initiative begins 2006: - AHeSSC begins - EPSRC joins initiative - 3 small scale demonstrator projects funded by EPSRC - 6 research workshops funded by AHRC 2007: 7 research projects and 4 PhD studentships announced

5. Example 1: Virtual Vellum Prototype manuscript viewer by Colin Dunn, Scriptura Ltd. Images © Stonyhurst College, Lancashire and Scriptura Ltd The Froissart Chronicles. From ‘Incipit’ portal, Peter Ainsworth, Leverhulme Research Fellow and Director of the Froissart Chronicles Project. © Besançon Public Library (ms 865, f. 133v)

6. http://www.shef.ac.uk/hri/projects/projectpages/virtualvellum.html http:/ahessc.ac.uk/virtual-vellum Example 1: Virtual Vellum

8. Example 2: Associated Motion Capture User Categories “ a prototype data retrieval tool, allowing movement features or sequences to be called up from a motion capture database”

10. Co-directors Research Associates Lorna Hughes Sheila Anderson Tobias Blanke Stuart Dunn

11. Support, co-ordinate and promote e-Science in all arts and humanities disciplines, and to liaise with the e-Science and e-Social Science communities, computing, and information sciences. AHeSSC:

13. http://www.arts-humanities.net Torsten Reimer, Methods Network

14. http://www.ahds.ac.uk/ictguides

16. Scoping survey I. Guiding principles - Agenda must be by and for arts and humanities - Must be inclusive - i.e. not just for the tech savvy - e-science is about empowerment and democratization - innovation - new forms of collaboration across domains and sectors - redefining the concept of e-science - international collaboration - scalable and sustainable - evidence of value

17. II. Grand challenges: Content - Data deluge - information inaccessible in analogue form - Access to commercial data - Need for deep mining technologies - Curation of complex digital content

18. II. Grand challenges: Collaboration - Access grid - VREs - ‘share and contest ideas and theories, share source materials and other data collaborate to create to create new forms of online editions…’ - Cultural shift - Institutional issues

19. II. Grand challenges: Needs for new methods and tools - Tools to aid search, retrieval, annotation and visualization - Tools for data management and standards - ‘Reservoir’ of user data - A&H are interprative - ‘cycle of interpretation and debate’ www.ahessc.ac.uk/scoping-survey