From motion capture to ancient manuscripts: Using complex digital resources across disciplines : JISC

From motion capture to ancient manuscripts: Using complex digital resources across disciplines

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Researchers from all parts of the campus are long-used to collecting, structuring and presenting their data in databases, spreadsheets, webpages etc, using a range of widely available and generic tools. In recent years, however, advances in digitisation technologies have led to the creation of much more complex data objects.

For example:

Motion capture technologies now enable the creation of ‘motion sculptures’ that capture dance movements.
Digitization methods, such as OCR, allow the creation of digital texts, which can then be studied by distributed research teams using online collaboration tools and virtual workspaces.
OCR also enables the digitisation of large corpuses of text with potential for new discoveries through text mining.

Research using digital objects such as these presents new challenges, but also new opportunities for multi-skilled, multi-disciplinary collaboration.

This half-day workshop, part of the JISC e-Infrastructure Roadshow series, highlighted some of these opportunities and presented some of the practical methods researchers can take for using/manipulating complex digital objects. Coordinated by the Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre, (hosted by KCL), it provided an interdisciplinary perspective illustrated by examples drawn mainly from the arts and humanities but also the biomedical sciences.

Programme and Presentations

Time	Programme Activity
09.30 - 10.00	Registration and coffee
10.00 - 10.10	Chair's introduction: Stuart Dunn, King's College London
10.10 - 10.30	Making use of the UK's advanced computing services for research - an overview David Fergusson, National e-Science Centre Download presentation
10.30 - 10.50	Data Management and the National Grid Service Jens Jensen, National Grid Service Download presentation
10.50 - 11.10	Forget bag-of-words for bags of words: how text mining services enable richer exploration of digital text collections John McNaught, National Centre for Text Mining
11.10 - 11.40	Discussion
11.40 - 12.00	Break
12.00 - 12.20	Reasons and Experience for Needing Visualisations of Complex Remote Data Sources Martin Turner, University of Manchester Download presentation
12.20 - 12.40	Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts in the Digital Age Gerhard Brey, King's College London
12.40 - 13.00	Preserving complex objects Stephen Grace, King's College London
13.00 - 13.30	Plenary discussion Chair: Stuart Dunn

Contact

Please contact Judy Redfearn if you have any queries relating to this workshop.

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