Centre for e-Research, King's College London, London WC2B 5RL, UK.
Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci. 2010 Aug 28;368(1925):3779-96. doi: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0156.
The application of e-Science technologies to disciplines in the arts and humanities raises major questions as to how those technologies can be most usefully exploited, what tools and infrastructures are needed for that exploitation, and what new research approaches can be generated. This paper reviews a number of activities in the UK and Europe in the last 5 years which have sought to address these questions through processes of experimentation and targeted infrastructure development. In the UK, the AHeSSC (Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre) has played a coordinating role for seven projects funded by the Arts and Humanities e-Science Initiative. In Europe, DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) has sought to develop a deeper understanding of research information and communication in the arts and humanities, and to inform the development of e-infrastructures accordingly. Both sets of activity have indicated a common requirement: to construct a framework which consistently describes the methods and functions of scholarly activity which underlie digital arts and humanities research, and the relationships between them. Such a 'methodological commons' has been formulated in the field of the digital humanities. This paper describes the application of this approach to arts and humanities e-Science, with reference to the early work of DARIAH and AHeSSC.
电子科学技术在艺术和人文学科中的应用提出了重大问题，即如何最有效地利用这些技术，为此需要哪些工具和基础设施，以及可以产生哪些新的研究方法。本文回顾了过去 5 年在英国和欧洲开展的一些活动，这些活动试图通过实验和有针对性的基础设施开发来解决这些问题。在英国，AHeSSC（艺术和人文学科电子科学支持中心）在由艺术和人文学科电子科学倡议资助的七个项目中发挥了协调作用。在欧洲，DARIAH（艺术和人文学科数字研究基础设施）试图深入了解艺术和人文学科中的研究信息和交流，并据此为电子基础设施的发展提供信息。这两组活动都表明了一个共同的要求：构建一个框架，该框架一致地描述了构成数字艺术和人文研究基础的学术活动的方法和功能，以及它们之间的关系。在数字人文学科领域已经制定了这样一个“方法学公用事业”。本文描述了该方法在艺术和人文学科电子科学中的应用，并参考了 DARIAH 和 AHeSSC 的早期工作。
