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Visualising Data in the Arts and Humanities. Dr Pamela Mason Strategy & Development Manager Creative and Performing Arts Team 24 January 2014. Digital Transformations.
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Visualising Data in the Arts and Humanities Dr Pamela Mason Strategy & Development Manager Creative and Performing Arts Team 24 January 2014
Digital Transformations • Exploit the potential of digital technologies to effect a transformation through incorporating and using the digital in arts and humanities research • Ensure that arts and humanities research is at the forefront of tackling crucial issues • Develop new ways of working to enhance access and creativity • Encourage new alliances in the arts and humanities and beyond • Develop new skills and techniques for working with data and technologies
Arts and Humanities Data • Archaeology Data Service (ADS) preserves and supports archaeological data and its reuse http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/ • The Great Britain Historical (GBH) GIS holds 14,099,469 data values, bringing together historical surveys of Britain covering demographic, economic, social and political history over the last 200 years http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/ • Digital images of musical scores, challenge of reading using Optical Music Recognition e.g. http://imslp.org/ • Time-based media data, such as music and film – includes camera-generated data as well as data generated through the creative process.
Why Visualisation? • Digital Arts can help create new types of interface and visualisation • Effective visualisations, as well as other representations of data (sound, hapticsetc) can add huge value to the data by: • Enabling new ways of communicating research • Exposing trends and insights that might otherwise have been missed • Allowing researchers to ask different questions of the data presented • Allowing popular access to the data
Gateway to Research? • Helping us to understand the Research Councils’ portfolios • Raising the profile of Research Council funded projects • Allowing easier public access to the information • Demonstrating the benefit of effective visualisations and the role of the Digital Arts • P.mason@ahrc.ac.uk