1. Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre e-Science methods in archaeology Development, support and infrastructure in the UK Belfast 3rd July 2006

2. Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre W. McCARTY: NEW SPLASHINGS IN THE OLD POND: THE COHESIBILITY OF HUMANITIES COMPUTING (2002): http://computerphilologie.uni-muenchen.de/jg02/mccarty.html

3. Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre Taxonomy of Computational Methods Content Types Narrative Text Datasets/Structured data and text Still Image/Graphics Moving image 3D Object Spatial Sound Function types Capture Structuring and Enhancement Analysis Dissemination and presentation

4. Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre “New ways of processing data, in particular computer based, have been developed in line with the developing range of new concepts, aiming at extracting more subtle and precisely documented pattering in archaeological data…” M. Shanks and C. Tilley, Social Theory and Archaeology 1987

5. Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre Grid technology A loose federation of methods and technologies which enable advanced research via the internet The development and deployment of a networked infrastructure and culture through which resources - be they processing power, data, expertise, or person power - can be shared in a secure environment, in which new forms of collaboration can emerge, and new and advanced methodologies explored.

6. Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre AHRC-JISC E-SCIENCE INITIATIVE: http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/e-sciencehttp://www.ahrc.ac.uk/e-science AHeSSC: http://www.ahessc.ac.ukhttp://www.ahessc.ac.uk EPSRC Demonstrators: Virtual Vellum: Online Viewing Environment for the Grid and Live Audiences (Sheffield) A Virtual Workspace for the Study of Ancient Documents (Oxford) Motion Capture Data Services for Multiple User Categories (Newcastle) AHRC Workshops: User Requirements Gathering for the Humanities (Oxford) Geographical Information System e-Science: developing a roadmap (Belfast) Performativity/Place/Space: Locating Grid Technologies (Bristol) The Access Grid in Collaborative Arts and Humanities Research (Sheffield) Building the Wireframe: E-Science for the Arts Infrastructure (UCE) ReACH: Researching e-Science Analysis of Census Holdings (UCL) Call for major research projects (August 2006) of £1.2m

7. Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre Grid technology Compute Grid

8. Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre Grid technology Data Grid The Froissart Chronicles. From ‘Incipit’ portal, Peter Ainsworth, Leverhulme Research Fellow and Director of the Froissart Chronicles Project. Copyright: Besançon Public Library (ms 865, f. 133v) http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/links/case.html

9. Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre Grid technology Access Grid

10. Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre Content Types Narrative Text Datasets/Structured data and text Still Image/Graphics Moving image 3D Object Spatial Sound Function types Capture Structuring and Enhancement Analysis Dissemination and presentation Ontologies Metadata Middleware Access Grid