AHeSSC's series of briefing papers tackle specfic areas of interest to the arts and humanities e-science early adopter community. The subject matter is broadly defined - they can describe relatively focused types of application (although they are not wholly concerned with specific instances - these are described in the case studies); or they can address broader topical areas.
Suggestions for collaboration on new briefing papers are always welcome. Please contact AHeSSC if you would like to suggest a topic.
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Access Grid
SUMMARY
The Access Grid (AG) is a global network of internet-enabled locations, or nodes, equipped with AV hardware 'microphones, cameras and projectors' linked by an arrangement of computers over the grid. This briefing paper looks at uses of the AG in arts, humanities and teaching.
RELATED PROJECTS
- See also Teaching and the Access Grid case study
KEYWORDS
e-learning, grid, communication
Geospatial resources
SUMMARY
In recent years, there has emerged a huge range of services, resources and applications for producing, accessing, using and managing geospatial materials. This briefing paper covers: associating information with geography; standards, web services and file formats; resources, services and institutions; online mapping communities; training and research support.
RELATED PROJECTS
KEYWORDS
GIS, geospatial, mapping, 3D
Grid
SUMMARY
Grid is about sharing resources and services. The name Grid originates from the electrical power grid. It stands for the vision about future computer infrastructures: Advanced computing technologies should become as ubiquitous as access to electronic power.
RELATED PROJECTS
KEYWORDS
eResearch, computational grid, data grid, service grid,
Ontologies
SUMMARY
Ontologies are more common than is generally known. This briefing paper considers what ontologies are – and what the y are not; the scope and size of ontologies; the Semantic Web, RDF and OWL; ontology tools; CIDOC CRM.
RELATED PROJECTS
KEYWORDS
Ontologies, semantic web, RDF, OWL
Virtual Research Environments
SUMMARY
Virtual Research Environments (VREs) are infrastructural frameworks which bring together distributed tools and resources for a specific purpose, or for a specific group of users. VRE are a response to a number of developments in research practice over the last few years.
RELATED PROJECTS
KEYWORDS
eResearch, collaboration, virtual organizations
Web services
SUMMARY
The Internet, as most people use it, consists out of texts written for humans that do not support software interaction well. Web services try to correct this by providing the information in a format that can be understood by software applications. They are about machine-to-machine interaction.
KEYWORDS
service oriented architectures, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Web Service Description Language (WSDL), Universal Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI)
Submitted by stuartd on Wed, 2008-11-05 11:30.
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