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.
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.
Textual Studies, Library and Information Science, eResearch
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.
Performance Arts, Motion Capture, Biomechanics
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.
Textual studies, grid
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.
Froissart, manuscripts, digitization, VREs, visualisation, grid, viewer
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.
Archaeology, GIS, virtual world modelling, geophysical survey, seismic data modelling
This casestudy considers ways of establishing collaborative postgraduate research programmes and integrated teaching agendas using the access grid.
e-learning, Access Grid, distributed computing, visualization