1. Digital Arts & Humanities is hosted by the Centre for
eResearch (CeRch) at King’s College London (KCL).
It was originally developed by the AHRC ICT Methods Network,
based at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities.
While CeRch hosts the site and co-ordinates the development,
our project is a collaboration with various
communities, projects and individuals and open for anyone to
join.
arts-humanities.net: Digital Arts & Humanities is developed to
support communities applying
information and communication
technology to Arts and Humanities
research.
The site helps practitioners to build
contacts and to stay up to date with
what others are doing in a very
dynamic and dispersed field.
arts-humanities.net is built using the open source
content management system Drupal – a CMS with
a modular, flexible design that supports user
groups.
We cooperate with the world wide Drupal
community on further development of the
system and feeds experience from our users
into that process.
arts-humanities.net: Digital Arts & Humanities was designed to
support individuals as well as groups. Group members decide which
content to make available to the general public – or to members
of other groups.
The site supports blogs for individual users
and groups, wikis, discussion
fora and multi-media content and can
aggregate content from other sites
via RSS. To facilitate networking there are
an events calendar and user profiles.
All content can be tagged, which makes it easy to find interesting
materials and even to integrate it into other websites.
Interested in Archaeology, Visualization or Grid Computing?
Just copy the relevant RSS feed into your site and
you will automatically get new updates.
arts-humanities.net: Digital Arts & Humanities supports
communities that use ICT for research and teaching.
Primarily aimed at the
UK academic community,
we also encourage and
value international
participation.
We are developing the site in collaboration and consultation
with groups and projects such as the Arts & Humanities
e-Science Support Centre, Computers and the
History of Art or ICT Guides.
“share and discuss
ideas, promote your
research and discover
the digital arts and
humanities”
The site provides a platform that interacts with existing sites and supports those
who do not yet have community tools.
Groups can use space on arts-humanities.net with tools including wikis,
fora and blogs and feed this content back into their websites – keeping their
identity and gaining a larger audience to interact with and technical support.
Together, we are creating a place where communities can
come together – a meta-community site.