Category: e-science
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Opportunity and accountability in the eResearch push, Digital Humanities, 2012, Hamburg, Germany
I would like to open with an image; it is an image from Fritz Lang’s famous 1927 German Expressionist Science Fiction movie, Metropolis. Made in Germany during the Weimar period, Metropolis depicts a futuristic dystopian society where wealthy intellectuals rule from the city above ground, oppressing the workers who live in the depths below them.…
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Let the sun shine in…
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eResearch and Digital Humanities: a broader vision?
I have been having many conversations with people of late around the boundaries eResearch and Digital Humanities. I have received many divergent and exciting responses from researchers and professionals working in various ways with computing in the humanities. There does tend to be little agreement about certain aspects of the landscape; many researchers have discovered…
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Data versus method (data needs heads!)
I have been thinking a little more about the relationship between eResearch and Digital Humanities of late, partly because it is the subject of my talk at the Digital Humanities conference in Hamburg in July, and I want to do justice to what I see as a critical topic that hasn’t been mainly well handled…
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Where is the theoretical base in eResearch? eResearch versus eLearning
Recently, I have been reading quite a lot about eLearning. I know it is one of those words with an e in front of it. Still, rather than simply existing on the superficial level of language, the sub-field of eLearning is a vibrant one with numerous scholarly contributions, journals, associations, and software. Â One of…
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eResearch in an international information environment: developments, challenges and responses
Synopsis: The application of diverse eResearch infrastructures to support research has a long history. During the 1970s, the genesis of eResearch in the shape of the Internet was driven by the research community’s needs. In this latest stage of eResearch infrastructure development, also primarily driven by the needs of the research, we are witnessing large-scale investments…