A roadshow on e-infrastructure, ‘From motion capture to ancient manuscripts:

AHeSSC is organizing a roadshow about e-infrastructure at King’s on 30
January. See below for more details and the programme.
It’s free to come along and there will be lunch. To register go to the
roadshow website: www.jisc.ac.uk/kingsroadshow.

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A roadshow on e-infrastructure, ‘From motion capture to ancient
manuscripts: Using complex digital resources across disciplines’ is
taking place at King’s on Friday January 30th.

This event is sponsored by JISC, and facilitated and hosted by the Arts
and Humanities e-Science Support Centre (AHeSSC) based at the Centre for
e-Research. It will be of interest to staff and students from any
discipline who are interested in finding out more about digital
infrastructure and services and the new opportunities for multi-skilled,
multi-disciplinary collaboration these provide.

Speakers include representatives of the National Grid Service, the
National e-Science Centre, the University of Manchester, and the Centre
for e-Research.

The event, located in the Franklin Wilkins building on the Waterloo
campus, is free to attend and lunch will be provided. For more details
and to register, visit the roadshow website: www.jisc.ac.uk/kingsroadshow.

Programme

9.30: Arrival and coffee

10.00: Welcome: Stuart Dunn (King’s College London)

10.10: David Fergusson (National e-Science Centre): Making use of the UK’s advanced computing services for research – an overview

10.30: Jens Jensen (National Grid Service): Data Management and the National Grid Service

10:50: John McNaught (National Centre for Text Mining): Forget bag-of-words for bags of words: how text mining services enable richer exploration of digital text collections

11.10: Discussion

11.40: Break

12:00: Martin Turner (University of Manchester): Reasons and Experience for Needing Visualizations of Complex Remote Data Sources

12.20: Gerhard Brey (King’s College London): Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts in the Digital Age

12.40: Stephen Grace (King’s College London): Preserving complex objects

13.00: Plenary discussion (chair: Stuart Dunn)

13.00: Close

13.30: Lunch