ICT in Arts and Humanities Research

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• The David Lodge model of humanities computing
• Number-crunching
• Table-emptying
• Scientific measurement and analysis

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• Contrast Richard Beacham, University of Warwick
  (Theatre Studies)
• The Pompey Project the evolution, structure and
  legacy of the Theatre of Pompey
• Adolphe Appia at Hellerau Virtual
  Reconstructions and performances
• Interpretation, imaginative reconstruction,
  experience

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• Jeremy Black, University of Oxford and Hamish
  Cunningham, University of Sheffield--morphology,
  part of speech, lemma
• Corpus-based analysis of Sumerian literature
  style, lexis, grammar and register
• Generic tools for linguistic annotation and
  web-based analysis of literary Sumerian
• Alan Bowman, University of Oxford--enhanced
  digitised images
• The Vindolanda writing-tablets edition with
  commentary and electronic database
• Nigel Llewellyn, University of Sussex--image
  retrieval
• Towards a National Census of Funeral Monuments A
  Pilot Study of East and West Sussex

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Awards with ICT output or methodology 1999-2003
Category ICT Total ICT Total
Research Grants 177 488 36.27 31,542,392 77,181,338 40.87
Resource Enhancement 107 118 90.68 22,242,163 24,010,846 92.63

All Awards 332 792 41.92 55,727,321 109,679,722 50.81
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Digital archive 79
Digital register (persons,events,items) 67
Digital catalogue (of a collection or corpus) 40
Record of research 23
Electronic edition (text) 22
Digital bibliography 20
Software resource development 17
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• AHRB ICT in Arts and Humanities Research
  Programme
• 2.7m over 4 years from 1 October 2003
• at School of Modern Languages, University of
  Reading
• David Robey (half-time Director, half-time
  Professor of Italian)
• Stuart Dunn (Research Assistant)

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• The aim of the ICT in Arts and Humanities
  Research Programme is to
• encourage, support and enhance the use of ICT in
  the conduct of research in all areas of the arts
  and humanities,
• the development and use of digital research
  resources and tools,
• and the exploitation of ICT in disseminating and
  making available the results of research.

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• Services already in place
• Arts and Humanities Data Service (joint-funded
  with JISC to 2007 approx. 1m p.a.
• JISC Resource Discovery Network Humbul
  (part-funded by AHRB) and Artifact

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AHRB ICT Methods Network 1.1m 3 years from
October 2004 Why 'Network'?
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AHRB ICT Methods Network

• interdisciplinary and interprofessional dialogue
  amongst computing specialists and Arts and
  Humanities scholars using ICT
• new developments and advanced methodologies, and
  research processes, questions, methods and uses
  of data
• one-stop shop for dissemination of new
  methodologies and tools, and of new forms of
  scholarly communication
• generic and last-resort user support
• on-line materials for postgraduate and
  postdoctoral training
• web-site, publications, workshops, expert
  seminars, possibly conferences
• advise on AHRB strategy, new technological
  developments, international collaboration,
  funding opportunities and needs

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• ICT STRATEGY PROJECTS SCHEME 1m
• Two types of project
• Knowledge-gathering
• Resource-development

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• Knowledge-gathering projects to underpin 2006
  Strategic Review of ICT activities and research
  community needs. May include
• Survey of current e-publishing activity in the
  arts and humanities
• Technology-deficit survey needs for tools
  development, generic resources, and standards in
  ICT for arts and humanities research
• Scoping survey(s) of ICT developments in other
  domains, including e-science, with a view to
  their potential use in the arts and humanities
• Survey(s) of the distribution of ICT skills and
  uses between different areas of research
• Evaluation of the quality and sustainability of
  AHRB-funded digital resources
• Survey(s) of use and impact of the AHRB-funded
  digital resources

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• Resource-development projects digital research
  resources for a broad range of subjects in the
  Arts and Humanities. May include
• Test/demonstrator/exemplar projects
• New generic resources and tools
• Transferability projects arising from existing
  funded projects

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• Collaboration with AHDS
• Methods and Projects Database
• (joint-funded with JISC)linked to register of
  research assistants (employment exchange)

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JISC (JCSR) Arts and Humanities ICT Awareness
Programme(100k)suite of on-line introductory
materials on ICT resources for Arts and
Humanities research aimed at low-level users
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• Broad, coordinated and clearly articulated
  strategy for the medium term up to 2007
• AHDS (joint-funded with JISC)
• RDN Humbul (AHRB supplements JISC funding)
• ICT Methods Network
• ICT Strategy Projects
• Arts and Humanities ICT Awareness and Training
  Programme (funded by JISC)
• Methods and Projects Database (joint-funded with
  JISC)
• 2006 Review to then determine new long-term
  strategic provision from 2007 on

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• Work with AHRB Research Panels
• Guidance on needs in the academic communities
• More expert input into evaluation of ICT-related
  projects

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