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

3. 1. What is e-Science?

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

8. Virtual Workspace for the Study of Ancient Documents (Oxford)

9. Collaborative real-time performance (University of Central England)

10. An example view from a colour 3D data set, image courtesy of Arius 3D and the Royal Ontario Museum, Canada. ‘ e-Curator’ (UCL)

11. Research in music and e-science methods (Goldsmiths, Southampton)

12. Virtual Research Environment for Archaeology (Reading, York Archaeological Trust, UCL)

13. Virtual Research Environment for Archaeology

14. Mapping Doggerland (Birmingham)

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

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