Meeting of the European Thematic Network, Acume2, Subproject 5: 'Reshaping humanities through applied sciences', Warsaw, November 2007

1. A new way of working: the UK Arts and Humanities e-Science Initiative Stuart Dunn AHeSSC Centre for e-Research, King’s College London Acume2 Meeting, Warsaw, 6 November 2007

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

6. 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)

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

9. Example 2: Medieval Warfare on the Grid: The Case of Manzikert Battle of Manzikert - 1071 AD

10. Example 2: Medieval Warfare on the Grid: The Case of Manzikert Geospatial methods and agent-based approach

11. Example 2: Medieval Warfare on the Grid: The Case of Manzikert Placename-related entities Named places Relative distance references Feature types

13. Example 3: Associated Motion Capture User Categories “ a prototype data retrieval tool, allowing movement features or sequences to be called up from a motion capture database”

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

16. 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:

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

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

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