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The Marriage of Mercury and Philology March 2008 Digital resources in the humanities:

The Marriage of Mercury and Philology March 2008 Digital resources in the humanities: sustainability and evidence value. The context: a strong centralized support system AHRC Responsive-mode research funding Strategic programmes JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) Infrastructure

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The Marriage of Mercury and Philology March 2008 Digital resources in the humanities:

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  1. The Marriage of Mercury and Philology • March 2008 • Digital resources in the humanities: • sustainability and evidence value

  2. The context: a strong centralized support system • AHRC • Responsive-mode research funding • Strategic programmes • JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) • Infrastructure • Technological and related development • Content services • Virtual Research Environments • e-Science

  3. AHRC: support for ICT in research in the arts • Responsive-mode • 30% > 50% ICT-related • the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) • Data creation and preservation • Joint-funded by AHRC and JISC • ends March 2008 • ICT in Arts and Humanities Research Programme… • ends September 2008

  4. AHRC ICT in Arts and Humanities Research Programme • £3.8m for 5 years from October 2003 • to build capacity nation-wide in the use of ICT for arts and humanities research • to help develop the AHRC's ICT strategy

  5. AHRC ICT in Arts and Humanities Research Programme • ICT Methods Network: £1m for 3 years to end March 2008 • advanced expertise on methods • complements the AHDS

  6. AHRC ICT in Arts and Humanities Research Programme • ICT Strategy Projects (£1m) • knowledge-gathering: needs, uses, scoping surveys • resource-development: tools

  7. Arts and Humanities e-Science Intitiative • Contradiction in terms? • not e-Research • National agenda in the sciences and technology • Infrastructure of advanced technologies for collaboration and resource-sharing across the Internet • Now understood more broadly: • advanced scientific collaborations between researchers in any discipline and computer scientists

  8. AHRC-EPSRC-JISC Arts and Humanties e-Science Initiative • Scoping survey • e-Science Support Centre (King’s) • based in AHDS and Methods Network • http://www.ahessc.ac.uk • Workshops and Demonstrators • Research Grants and Studentships scheme • AHRC-EPSRC-JISC e-Science research projects up to £2m • six 4-year AHRC e-Science postgraduate studentships.

  9. Sustainability of support? • after March 2008…

  10. arts-humanities.net • JISC-AHRC national support project • £575,000 until end July 2010 • at King's College Centre for e-Research • on-line knowledge base of training and methodological resources • support resources for virtual communities of practitioners • facilitate Network of Expert Centres in data creation, preservation and processing

  11. Agenda for the future • e-Infrastructure: national question • Sustainability of digital resources • Evidence of value

  12. Sustainability of data resources • Academic vs technical • The typical AHRC-funded data resource: interactive multi-media • Changing environment and the need for technical updating • Use vs re-use • Optimization • Methodologies of use as well as data creation • Proliferation and dispersal • Harmonization and interoperability • Role of the Network of Centres

  13. Sustainability of tools…

  14. Evidence of value: how to map it • Research resources/infrastructure vs projects

  15. What kind of resources? • Subject vs generic • Content resources • Tools and methods development • Community support • National vs institutional • Repositories • Inter- and intradisciplinary exchange • Training • User support

  16. What categories of value? • Intrinsic vs extrinsic • Quantitative vs qualitative • Immediate vs longer-term • Direct vs mediated

  17. Arguments for value? • Convenience and speed • New questions and knowledge • Confirmation of existing knowledge • New kinds of output & dissemination • Collaboration, networking, community building, interaction • Access • Aggregation, integration • Preservation • Multivalency, unforeseen consequences

  18. And finally… • Sound and Metre in Italian Narrative Verse • http://www.italianverse.reading.ac.uk

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