Opportunity and accountability in the ‘eResearch push’, Digital Humanities, 2012, Hamburg,

Germany

Dr Craig Bellamy, VeRSI, University of Melbourne, Australia

Do computational modeling, complete data analysis,visualize results

NCIPawsey

Keep data and observations,describe, collect, share,

find, and re-use them

ANDSRDSI

Use new tools, apps,work remotely and

collaborate in the cloud

NeCTAR

Compute Data

Networks

Tools

eResearchInfrastructure

Increased connectivity and bandwidth ARENAAF Single Sign On, High reliance services, High reliability servers

Acknowledgement: Rhys Francis, AeRIC, May 2012

Meek

Elijah Meeks: Stanford

...[there are] dangers in general and especially the issue of the turn from research to research

infrastructure...we need to be careful about defining the difference and avoid moving into the realm of infrastructure...those things we are still studying

(Geoff Rockwell)

Perhaps things like the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines are the real infrastructure of humanities

computing, and the consortia like the TEI are the future of light and shared infrastructure

maintenance’

eResearch• Scientific paradigm• Generic

Infrastructure and service focus

• Big!Digital Humanities• Inquiry based• Embedded in humanities • Accountable (peer

assessed)• Humanities paradigm• People as infrastructure!

Pressure on curriculum and its delivery

A) Do you think it is possible and desirable for the humanities to have its own ‘conceptual cyberinfrastucture? (ie. is it possible to design cyberinfrastucture outside of a science paradigm and science funding?) (...or lessons learned)

B) If so, how may the digital humanities step up to the mark?