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De: Dolores Iorizzo <[log in to unmask]>
Epistemic Networks and GRID + Web 2.0 for Arts and Humanities
30-31 January 2008, Imperial College Internet Centre,
Imperial College London
Data driven Science has emerged as a new model which enables researchers
to move from experimental, theoretical and computational distributed
networks to a new paradigm for scientific discovery based on large scale
GRID networks (NSF/JISC Digital Repositories Workshop, AZ 2007).
Hundreds of thousands of new digital objects are placed in digital
repositories and on the web everyday, supporting and enabling research
processes not only in science, but in medicine, education, culture and
government. It is therefore important to build interoperable
infra-structures and web-services that will allow for the exploration,
data-mining, semantic integration and experimentation of arts and
humanities resources on a large scale. There is a growing consensus
that GRID solutions alone are too heavy, and that coupling it with Web
2.0 allows for the development of a more light-weight service oriented
architecture (SOA) that can adapt readily to user needs by using on
demand utility computing, such as morphological tools, mash-ups, surf
clouds, annotation and automated workflows for composing multiple
services. The goal is not just to have fast access to digital resources
in the arts and humanities, but to have the capacity to create new
digital resources, interrogate data and form hypotheses about its
meaning and wider context. Clearly what needs to emerge is a
mixed-model of GRID + Web 2.0 solutions for the arts and humanities
which creates an epistemic network that supports a four step iterative
process: (i) retrieval, (ii) contextualisation, (iii) narrative and
hypothesis building, and (iv) creating contextualised digital resources
in semantically integrated knowledge networks. What is key here is not
just managing new data, but the capacity to share, order, and create
knowledge networks from existing resources in a semantically accessible
form.
To create epistemic networks in the arts and humanities there are core
technologies that must be developed. The aim of this expert METHNET
Workshop is to focus on developing a strategy for the implementation of
these core technologies on an inter-national scale by bringing together
GRID computing specialists with researchers from Classics, Literature
and History who have been involved in the creation and use of electronic
resources. The core technologies we will focus on in this two day
work-shop are: (i) infrastructure, (ii) named entity, identity and
co-reference services, (iii) morphological services and parallel texts,
(iv) epistemic networks and virtual research environments. The idea is
to bring together expertise from the UK, US, and European funded
projects to agree upon a common strategy for the development of core
infra-structure and web-services for the arts and humanities that will
enable the use of GRID technologies for advanced research.
DAY ONE- 10:00 – 6:00
SESSION I: GRID + Web 2.0 Infrastructure
Rosemary Russell - ‘GRID and Web 2.0 in the DRIVER Project’
(DRIVER Project - http://www.driver-repository.eu/)
David Giaretta – ‘GRID-WEB for Future Generations’
(CASPAR - http://www.casparpreserves.eu/)
David Shotton – DATA WEBS for the Arts and Humanities
(http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/activities/presentations/TDI_DavidShotton2.pdf)
Marc Wilhelm Küster – TEXTGRID (http://www.textgrid.de)
Tobias Blanke – The DARIAH Project (http://www.dariah.eu/)
Brian Fuchs – The Future of GRID + Web 2.0 for Humanities
SESSION II: Computational and Semantic Services: Named Entity, Identity
and Co-reference
Paul Watry: Named Entity and Identity Services for the National Archives
www.liv.ac.uk
Greg Crane – Co-Reference (Perseus - www.perseus.tufts.edu/)
Hamish Cunningham/Kalina Bontcheva: AKT and GATE: GRID-WEB Services
AKT/GATE- www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~hamish
Martin Doerr – Co-Reference and Semantic Services for Grid + Web 2.0
www.ics.forth.gr
DAY TWO: 10:00 – 6:00
SESSION I: Morphological, Parallel Texts and Citation Services
Greg Crane - “Latin Depedency Treebank”, Perseus Project
www.perseus.tufts.edu
Marco Passarotti - “Index Thomisticus” Treebank
http://gircse.marginalia.it/~passarotti/
Notis Toufexis - ‘Neither Ancient, nor Modern:
Challenges for the creation of a Digital Infrastructure for Medieval
Greek’
http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/greek/staff/nt262
Rob Iliffe – Intelligent Tools for Humanities Researchers, The Newton
Project www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk
SESSION II: Epistemic Networks and Virtual Research Environments
Anna Maria Carusi/ Marina Jirotka – A Future Humanities VRE, OeRC
web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/annamaria.carusi
Simon Hodson - Virtual Research Environment for Political Discourse
1500-1800 www.earlymoderntexts.org/vre
David Arnold - EPOCH , GRID, Web 2.0 (EPOCH) - www.brighton.ac.uk/mis/epoch
Jurgen Renn - The Epistemic Web, Max Planck Berlin
www.sis.pitt.edu/~repwkshop/papers/renn.ppt
Martin Doerr and Dolores Iorizzo - Epistemic Networks and GRID + Web 2.0
(http://www.delos.info)
Registration fee is £60 and places are limited.
Please contact Dolores Iorizzo ([log in to unmask]) to secure a place or
for further information. Please send registration to Glynn Cunin
([log in to unmask]).
http://www.internetcentre.imperial.ac.uk/events
The Imperial College Internet Centre would like to acknowledge generous
support from the AHRC METHNET for co-hosting this conference.
