top Methods Network Presentation Resource ○ Introduction to Methods Network Introduction to Methods Network ○ Partnerships & Collaborations Partnerships & Collaborations ○ Methods Network Activities Methods Network Activities ○ Methods Network Publications Methods Network Publications ○ Contact Details Contact Details ○ E-Science E-Science

top AHRC Funded The Methods Network The AHRC ICT programme was launched in October 2003 and now has funding of £3.8 million The Methods Network is one of many resources designed to support the implementation of this programme Methods Network to operate from April 2005 – March 2008 Remit to cover the UK Arts and Humanities Research community

top Panel 1: Classics, Ancient History & Archaeology Panel 2: Visual Arts & Media: practice, history & theory Panel 3: English Language & Literature Panel 4: Medieval and Modern History Panel 5: Modern Languages & linguistics Panel 6: Librarianship, Information & Museum Studies Panel 7: Music & Performing Arts Panel 8: Philosophy, Law and Religious Studies AHRC Panels

top What is our role? To promote the use of advanced ICT methods in Arts and Humanities research By providing a national forum for the exchange and dissemination of expertise How is this achieved? By monitoring and fostering new research opportunities and new modes of collaboration across all Arts and Humanities disciplines By raising the public profile of ICT in the Arts and Humanities By working with other agencies and projects that are committed to investigating and developing the use of ICT methods

top Exchange and Dissemination ○ Methods Network website ○ Expert Seminars ○ Workgroups ○ Workshops ○ Seminars/conferences ○ Visits ○ RSS feed ○ Mailing list ○ Wiki

top New Research Opportunities ○ Encouraging cross-disciplinary collaboration ○ Operating with a pan-institutional remit ○ Using a pro-active approach to establish initiatives ○ Investigating new methods and their application ○ Advising and supporting grant-holders & funding applicants ○ Engaging with postgraduate level researchers

top ICT Public Profile ○ Publishing authoritative ‘state of the art’ information ○ Promotion of ‘Arts & Humanities Computing’ as a discipline ○ Supporting the evaluation of ICT driven research output ○ Focusing on sustainable resource creation

top Other Agencies and Projects ○ Associate directors and related organisations ○ AHDS ○ AHRC ○ AHRC funded projects ○ Arts & Humanities Research Centres ◙Skip to ‘Partnerships & CollaborationsSkip to ‘Partnerships & Collaborations

top Staff Network Activities Centre (NAC) Range of backgrounds and experience History, Art History, Archaeology, IT, Musicology, Digitisation, Meta-data, Publishing, Research, Funding …

top Where are we? Temple, Holborn or Charing X Kay House 7 Arundel Street London WC2R 3DX

top Network & Associate Directors Mark Greengrass Humanities Research Institute, Sheffield University Sandra Kemp Royal College of Art Andrew Wathey Royal Holloway, University of London Harold Short & Marilyn Deegan CCH, King’s College London

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Related projects AHRC ICT strategy projects  Scoping E-Science and E-Social Science Developments and their Value to the Arts & Humanities  Peer Review and Evaluation of Digital Resources  User Requirements Analysis for Portals in the Arts and Humanities  Gathering Evidence: Current ICT use and Future needs for Arts & Humanities Research  ICT Tools for Searching, Annotation and Analysis of Audio-Visual Media  The Hunt for Submarines in Classical Art; Mappings between Science and Art  Log Analysis of Internet Resources in the Arts & Humanities  Making Space: Tracking and Documenting the Cognitive Process in 3D visualisation research  Information Mining in Distributive Research Datasets in the Arts & Humanities  Linking E-Archives & E-Publications  Lexical Searches for Arts & Humanities. The Historical Thesaurus of English  Flexibly Searchable Streaming Media Archive of Contemporary and Modern Art Theory/Practice

top Useful resources Gathering Evidence: Current ICT Use and Future Needs for Arts and Humanities Researchers Principal Investigator: Dr Lesly Huxley, University of Bristol Report expected: July 2006 A Taxonomy of Computational Methods Reto Speck, AHDS Publicly accessible: February 2006 onwards Scoping E-Science and E-Social Science to the Arts & Humanities Sheila Anderson, AHDS Report expected: October 2006

top Activities Expert Seminars ○Five Expert Seminars per year (budget £5400 per seminar) ○To examine specific advanced ICT methods in and across disciplines ○To identify future and current needs ○To Identify issues which may be addressed in follow-up activities Seminar proceedings will be published online and selected papers will be peer reviewed for print publication ◙Skip to ‘Publications’Skip to ‘Publications’

top Activities 1. Linguistics - Word Frequency and Keyword Extraction Hosted and organised by Tony McEnery, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, held at the Lancaster House Hotel, on 8 September Expert Seminars 3. Music - Modern Methods for Musicology: Prospects, Proposals and Realities Hosted and organised by Andrew Wathey and Tim Crawford, held at Royal Holloway, University of London, on 3 March D Visualisation – Making 3D Visual Research Outcomes Transparent Hosted and organised by Richard Beecham and Hugh Denard, King’s Visualisation Lab, held at CCH on 25 February In conjunction with an EPOCH funded symposium event at the British Academy February 2006

top 5. History and Archaeology - The Past and the Virtual Representation of Texts, Objects and Time Hosted and organised by Mark Greengrass, held at the Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, on April Activities Expert Seminars (cont.) 4. Literature - Text Editing in a Digital Environment Hosted and organised by Marilyn Deegan and Harold Short, held at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College, London on 24 March Visual Arts – From Pigments to Pixels Hosted and organised by Mike Pringle, AHDS Visual Arts, held at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, London on 27 April 2006.

top Activities Workshops ○ Four Advanced workshops each year (£5K per activity) ○ Open call for proposals to the community ○ Intended as sessions to “train the trainers” ○ To address immediate and narrowly defined training needs

top Activities Workgroups ○ To explore specific issues ○ To report on key issues ○ To make specific or strategic recommendations ○ Limited or long term remit ○ Report within 6 or 12 months ○ No more than 10 members

top Activities Seminars / Conferences ○ Five seminars or conferences per year (£2K per event) ○ Community led ○ Published outcomes where appropriate

top Publications Expert Seminars Discussions are currently under way with a publisher to produce a series of publications based on these events Other publications Online publication will complement print publishing to disseminate the outcomes of Methods Network activities as widely as possible ◙Skip back to ‘Expert Seminars’Skip back to ‘Expert Seminars’

top E-Science ○The development of case studies illustrating the use of grid technologies in the arts and humanities ○Identifying research questions and/or problems in the Arts and Humanities that might be addressed by grid technologies ○Understanding the ways in which new collaborative projects might be developed and supported ○Helping to identify and initiate partnerships ○Addressing the questions of peer review and assessment of such work, and its implications for the RAE ○Identifying, documenting and disseminating new ICT research methods that may result from such work.