Epistemic Networks and GRID + Web 2.0 for Arts and Humanities
30-31 January 2008, Imperial College Internet Centre,
Imperial College London
*Please note new registration information for this workshop*
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.
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**DAY ONE*
*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/ )
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
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***SESSION II: Computational and Semantic Services: Named Entity, Identity
and Co-reference*
Paul Watry: Named Entity and Identity Services for the National Archives
http://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
http://www.ics.forth.gr/
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DAY TWO*
*SESSION I: Morphological, Parallel Texts and Citation Services*
Greg Crane – “Latin Depedency Treebank”, Perseus Project
ww.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 http://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 (d.iorizzo@ic.ac.uk) to secure a place or for
further information. Please send registration to Glynn Cunin
(g.cunin@imperial.ac.uk )..
/The Imperial College Internet Centre would like to acknowledge generous
support from the AHRC METHNET for co-hosting this conference./
*Epistemic Networks Workshop*
30 – 31 January 2008, Internet Centre, Imperial College, London
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