[dcc-associates] workshop at King's College London

[Lorna Hughes]

Workshop at King’s College, London, July 6th, 2010, 12:00 - 17:00
"Uptake of e-Infrastructure services in the arts and humanities"

Organizers: Lorna Hughes, King’s College London; Rob Procter, University of 
Manchester

What do arts and humanities researchers want from e-Infrastructure services? 
What services and resources make up the e-Infrastructure for the arts and 
humanities? How are these services accessed and used by researchers across the 
disciplines? How are they transforming the research practice, and enabling new 
forms of scholarship? What are the barriers to using these services in the arts 
and humanities, and how might these be addressed? If academic research is to 
build on the foundations of the emerging e-Infrastructure, it is essential to 
understand potential barriers to wider adoption and uptake of these services, 
and to develop strategies to address them.

The JISC recently funded the project “Enabling uptake of e-Infrastructure 
services” (part of its Community Engagement strand) to investigate barriers to 
uptake of e-Infrastructure services in the UK. The project has now concluded, 
and a final report and other materials are now available. This workshop will 
discuss the findings of the project with a selected group of arts and 
humanities researchers and practitioners to discuss the impact of these 
findings on shaping future policy for research support.

The primary objectives of the workshop are to discuss strategies for increasing 
engagement with, and adoption of, e-infrastructure services in the UK. We wish 
to discuss these issues in greater depth with actual or potential users of 
e-infrastructure services, to frame the findings of the project within the way 
that researchers see their practice and the role that advanced information 
technologies play in their work. At the same time, we wish to provide service 
providers and technology developers with a sound grasp of problems as perceived 
by users from the arts and humanities.  
Who should attend?

- Service providers who develop and implement e-Infrastructure services for the 
arts and humanities

- Researchers and practitioners in the arts and humanities who may have used 
(or attempted to use) e-infrastructure services for research

- Digital arts and humanities specialists, and University IT staff.

Registration

There is no charge to attend the workshop, but you must register. Please send 
e-mail to anna.ash...@kcl.ac.uk to register. 


For updated information about the programme, see: 
http://www.arts-humanities.net/event/workshop_uptake_e_infrastructure_services_arts_humanities