1. The many (inter)faces of Arts, Humanities and Technology: The UK’s Arts and Humanities e-Science Programme Stuart Dunn Centre for e-Research, King’s College London Acume2 General Meeting Rimini, 16th May 2008
5. 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, KCL’s Centre for e-Research formed
15. - Questioning assumptions inherent in ‘traditional research’ Why?! - Enabling A&H scholars to ask new research questions - Driving technological research agendas with those questions - Linking A&H with technology enables new kinds of collaboration within and across disciplines - The digital sphere gives us new ways of linking data - Web 2.0….? - Making possible new international collaborations
![1. What is e-Science? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],“ [n]ot 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](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)