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Overview
Arts-humanities.net* is developed and maintained by the Centre for e-Research at King's College London. The project originated in 2008 as a joint initiative between Information and Computer Technology (ICT) Guides database and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) ICT Methods Network.
The project's main goal is to advance and promote the use of
digital tools and methods for research and teaching in the
humanities and arts. It acts as a stepping-stone to a wide variety
of scholarly projects and articles that support and
implement tools and technology used in the field. The project
houses a networked community where members can participate in discussions, comment on work, contribute
information, and peruse job
postings. For more information, click on the following link to
view an excellent presentation [1] by Dr. Torsten Reimer from the Centre for
e-Research, King???s College London.
Audience
Typically, the audience for this project is comprised ofscholars and academics. However, arts-humanities.net encourages allvisitors of the website to become members of a larger digitalhumanities family through a simple sign-up procedure. Membershipallows users of the site to personalize their experience, add aproject, create a profile, and provide content. Members are part ofa complex, diverse community that promotes tools and methodsassociated with humanities computing. Through dialogue, discussion,and the sharing of ideas, members become both contributors andaudience. All the same, a casual visitor interested in the digitalarts and humanities will enjoy the vast resources on the websiteand does not have to be a member to do so.
Purpose
- Provide information and access to projects that employ the use of digital tools and computational methods
- Home to online, searchable library of projects and scholarly articles
- Provide a taxonomy of tools and methods used in a wide variety of humanitycomputing projects
- Supplies a list of centers that work collaboratively in providingdirection and support for digital humanities research
- Promote Web 2.0 tools and approaches such as user content,profiles, blogs, and wikis
- Provide a forum for interdisciplinary scholars to converge,promote, and discuss work
Significance
Arts-humanities.net is significant in that it provides acomprehensive taxonomy of defined methods used to gather, organize,and assess data found in many digital humanities projects. This ishelpful in that it allows users of the site to expand andarticulate methods and data management systems used in their ownwork. The site also supplies a detailed list of software tools,thus providing a broad tool-belt that all users can learn and drawfrom. Of great importance to arts-humanities.net is the intent todevelop a strong community of academics and scholars workingtowards the same aim of furthering projects, funding new ones, andgeneral support for the digital arts and humanities. Lastly,according to Dr. Torsten Reimer's presentation, one of thesite's most visited areas is the job postings section, whichhas obvious significance to those individuals looking for workwithin the digital humanities.
Interesting Links
The links posted below have been or are current projects found on Arts-humanities.net
Online calendar of the correspondence of Charles Darwin
James Mill's Common Place Books
Greece and Rome at the Fitzwilliam Museum
TAPoR: Text Analysis Portal for Research
Connected Histories: Sources for Building British History, 1500-1900
A Vision of Britain Through Time
The Nature of Phenomenal Qualities
What is Black British Jazz? Routes, Ownership, Performance
Reference
All information presented on this wiki page has been gleaned and distilled from arts-humanities.net