Arts and Humanities E-Science Support Centre

AHeSSC has a strong international presence, and works both with, and alongside, a number of organizations with complementary interests. Collaboration can take many forms - in some cases we are actively involved in projects with our colleagues in other countries, in others it is simply a matter of sharing information and dissemination each other's outputs.

The following list is not exhaustive, but illustrates some of the significant organizations and projects with whom AHeSSC is in contact. It will be updated shortly.

HASTAC

HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Sciences and Technology Advanced Collaboratory): A consortium of humanists, artists, scientists, and engineers, of leading researchers and nonprofit research institutions, HASTAC ("Haystack") is committed to new forms of collaboration across communities and disciplines fostered by creative uses of technology.

TextGrid

TextGrid: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.

See our case study profiling TextGrid.

Acume2

This subproject of teh Acume2 network will explore theoretical questions and investigate the linguistic implications of interfacing between the sciences and the humanities through the study of a) new systems of knowledge interfacing science and literature (e.g. complexity theory, chaos theory, modelling, networking); b) hybridisation in scientific discourse (e.g. the emergence of scientific rhetoric, the use of figurative language); c) use of scientific tropes in literary texts.

In October 2008, we co-organized and hosted a workshop in the e-Science Theme at Edinburgh entitled Living texts: interdisciplinary approaches and methodological commonalities in biology and textual analysis with Acume2.

Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science

ICHASS, part of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's National Center for Supercomputing Applications has particular interests in High Performance Computing and the humanities, arts and social sciences, and in 'creating both learning environments and spaces for digital discovery'.

Aus-e-Lit

Aus-e-Lit: The Aus-e-Lit project aims to address the eResearch needs of researchers involved in the study of Australian literature and Australian print culture. AustLit is a non-profit collaboration between the National Library of Australia and twelve Universities. It provides an important resource for scholars undertaking research into many aspects of Australian literary heritage and print culture history.

CALLAS

CALLAS aims to design and develop a Framework based on a plug-in multimodal architecture, invariant to configuration of Multimodal Components, to interpret and process emotional aspects in real-time for easy and fast development of applications for Art and Entertainment, paying attention to the value of users, who are no longer passive spectators of artistic performances, but stimulating sources of human communication.