One of AHeSSC's core remits is to produce case studies of innovative applications of advanced technology in, or relating to, the arts and humanities e-science early adopter community. Currently the full text of these are available on the arts-humanities.net portal.

Suggestions for new case studies (whether to be produced by AHeSSC or in collaboration with other organizations) are always welcome. Please contact AHeSSC if you would like to suggest a subject.


Aus-e-Lit

SUMMARY

The Aus-e-Lit project is a NeAT-funded project that aims to address the eResearch needs of researchers involved in the study of Australian literature and Australian print culture.

KEYWORDS

Textual Studies, Library and Information Science, eResearch

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Associated Motion Capture User Categories

SUMMARY

The AMUC e-science demonstrator has provided a unique opportunity for performing artists, biomechanics and computing science specialists to collaborate in practice-driven creative research at Culture Lab, Newcastle University's interdisciplinary digital platform.

KEYWORDS

Performance Arts, Motion Capture, Biomechanics

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Text Grid: Community Grid for the Humanities

SUMMARY

TextGrid is one of the first grid-based humanities projects in Germany and Europe creating an infrastructure for the collaborative editing, annotation, analysis, and publication of specialist text resources.

KEYWORDS

Textual studies, grid

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Virtual Vellum

SUMMARY

The Virtual Vellum project provides distributed access to research-quality digitisations of folios from the Chronicles of Jean Froissart, the principal historical source for the first phase of the 100 Years War between England and France.

KEYWORDS

Froissart, manuscripts, digitization, VREs, visualisation, grid, viewer

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North Sea Palaeolandscape

SUMMARY

The North Sea Palaeolandscapes project utilizes 3D seismic data to generate models that will be of enormous value to the geological and archaeological community as well as to the aggregate extraction industry.

KEYWORDS

Archaeology, GIS, virtual world modelling, geophysical survey, seismic data modelling

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Teaching with the Access Grid

SUMMARY

This casestudy considers ways of establishing collaborative postgraduate research programmes and integrated teaching agendas using the access grid.

KEYWORDS

e-learning, Access Grid, distributed computing, visualization

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