Living texts: interdisciplinary approaches and methodological commonalities in biology and textual analysis'

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Living texts interdisciplinary approaches and
methodological commonalities in biology and
textual analysis' 16-17 October 2008 E-Science
Institute, Edinburgh
Stuart Dunn Centre for e-Research, Kings College
London
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What is e-Science?

• "e-Science is about global collaboration in
  key areas of science and the next generation of
  infrastructure that will enable it." - Sir
  John Taylor, Former Director General of Research
  Councils, 2000

not only to provide unprecedented access to
a variety of cultural artifacts but also to
make it possible to see these artifacts in
completely new ways digital technology that
can offer us new ways of seeing art, new ways of
bearing witness to history, new ways of hearing
and remembering human languages, new ways of
reading texts, ancient and modern. - Our
Cultural Commonwealth, ACLS, 2006

• the development and deployment of a
  networked infrastructure and culture through
  which resources () can be shared in a secure
  environment, and in which new forms of
  collaboration can emerge, and new and advanced
  methodologies explored. (http//www.ahessc.ac.uk/
  scoping-survey)
• - Sheila Anderson, Director, Centre for
  e-Research, Kings College London, 2007

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Arts and Humanities e-Science in the UK
2005 AHRC-JISC e-Science Initiative begins
2006 - AHeSSC begins, hosted by Arts and
Humanities Data Service - 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
- AHDS funding discontinued, KCLs Centre for
e-Research formed
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Arts and Humanities e-Science in the UK - 2007 -
2009
http//www.ahessc.ac.uk/research-projects

• ??Helen Bailey Relocating Choreographic Process
  The impact of Grid technologies and collaborative
  memory on the documentation of practice-led
  research in dance
• ??Alan Bowman Image, Text, Interpretation
  e-Science, Technology and Documents
• ??Tim Crawford Purcell Plus Exploring an
  eScience Methodology for Musicologists
• ??Vincent Gaffney Medieval Warfare on the Grid
  The Case of Manzikert
• ??Sally MacDonald, E-Curator 3D colour scans for
  remote object identification and assessment
• ???Julian Richards, Archaeotools Data mining,
  facetted classification and E-archaeology
• ??monica schraefel, musicSpace Using and
  Evaluating e-Science Design Methods and
  Technologies to Improve Access to Heterogeneous
  Music Resources for Musicology

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Themes
The aim of a Theme is to achieve new insights
into a specific topic by investigating it in
depth over a sustained period.
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Theme 1 Information Services for Smart Decision
Making
Theme 2 Exploiting Diverse Sources of Scientific
Data
Themes
Theme 3 Adoption of e-Research Technologies
Theme 4 Spatial Semantics for Automating
Geographic Information Processes
Theme 5 Distributed Programming Abstractions
Theme 6 e-Science in the Arts and Humanities
Theme 7 Neuroinformatics and Grid Techniques to
Build a Virtual Fly Brain
Theme 8 Trust and Security in Virtual Communities
Theme 9 Principles of Provenance
Theme 10 Communicating the e-Science of Climate
Change
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Theme 1 Information Services for Smart Decision
Making
Theme 2 Exploiting Diverse Sources of Scientific
Data
Themes
Theme 3 Adoption of e-Research Technologies
Theme 4 Spatial Semantics for Automating
Geographic Information Processes
Theme 5 Distributed Programming Abstractions
Theme 6 e-Science in the Arts and Humanities
Theme 7 Neuroinformatics and Grid Techniques to
Build a Virtual Fly Brain
Theme 8 Trust and Security in Virtual Communities
Theme 9 Principles of Provenance
Theme 10 Communicating the e-Science of Climate
Change
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Lectures - 2007

• A potential for all e-Science for the Arts and
  Humanities

• Methods and Technologies for Enabling Virtual
  Research Communities

• Ontologies and Semantic Interoperability for
  Humanities Data

• Collaborative Text Editing

• Grid Enabling Humanities Datasets

• E-Science and Performance

• Aspects of Space and Time in Humanities e-Science

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Space and Time Methods in Geospatial Computing
for Mapping the Past
Scoping new applications of GIS
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Application of biological cladistic analysis
to stemmatic studies in textual criticism
Application of parsing methods (linguistics) to
protein folding (biology) Comparing ageing of
organisms with concept evolution in literary
text Comparing DNA transcription with complex
textual structures Commonalities in the use of
ontologies in biology and textual information
retrieval Application of biological methods
for dealing with very large textual corpora
The role of Virtual Research Environments in
supporting and facilitating such research
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stuart.dunn_at_kcl.ac.uk