The Arts and Humanities eScience Support Centre

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The Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre

• Stuart Dunn
• AHRC-JISC-EPSRC
• open meeting
• 8th September 2006

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Co-directors
Lorna Hughes
Sheila Anderson
Research Associates
Tobias Blanke
Stuart Dunn
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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.
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Practical assistance and liaison

• Helpdesk function
• - support_at_ahessc.ac.uk

• Information on funding opportunities
• http//www.ahessc.ac.uk/getting-funding

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International activities
IntSci Conference, Merida, Spain Paper on
digital libraries in the AH, October 2006
ECAI conference, Moscow Spring 2007
CAA Conference, Fargo, ND Paper on e-science in
archaeology, April 2006
CI-HASS workshop, San Diego July 2006
VOSON project, ANU
HASTAC, UC Irvine
Digital Humanities 2007, UIUC - NCSA, UIUC
Ontologies workshop, Hamburg, April 2006
TextGrid, Germany
Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago
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Outreach, training and dissemination

• Case studies and briefing papers
• Access Grid
• Grid
• Ontologies
• Virtual Research Environments
• Web Services

• Attend conferences and events

• Training events

• Publications

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AHRC-JISC-EPSRC funded initiatives

• AHRC Workshops / EPSRC Demonstrators
• Community Forum
• Fostering interdisciplinary partnerships
• Dissemination of outcomes
• Anything else!

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