NEW METHODS: OPPORTUNITIES AND ISSUES FROM NEW TECHNOLOGIES

Facilitator - Hugh Craig

Access

  • questions of authority and access with material from traditional and indigenous societies
  • how to implement access constraints?

Scaling

How to make existing resources extensible and scaleable? (recombinant technologies)

Broadband

  • potential use for cost-efficient master-classes
  • diffusion of expertise to early career researchers (mentoring)
  • virtual collaborations
  • teams collaborating in new scholarly paradigm
  • accessibility for ageing populations

Wireless

  • connectivity
  • security issues
  • potential use in field data collection

Visualisation

  • visualising complexity
  • triggering new connections
      1. From surrogate objects in digital form, to recognising, interpretation and analysis implicit in digitisation
        • leads to new ideas and new knowledge
        • brings resources into new contexts, new domains
      2. Interactive manipulable digital objects
    • NB exploring boundary between object with real-world referent and interpretation;

Needs

  • Research training to enhance research, not teaching
  • Training to understand, manage and evaluate projects
  • Extensions to existing commercial software to combine, build connections; create exemplars, e.g. EndNote citations to audio, internet
  • List of problems to solve (and solutions when found) e.g. working group on bibliography
  • Methods database

How to Motivate the 90%

  • create trust in durability of digital resources
  • demonstrate use being made of digital resources (metrics)
  • create human-centred, domain-specific texts

Innovative Aspects of an e-Humanities Research Network

  • formalizing existing informal linkages to be inclusive
  • cross-discipinary focus
  • project management in a collaborative setting