Welcome presentation given at the workshop we co-organized at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in June '07

1. Arts and Humanities e-Science Activities in the UK University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1st June 2007

2. 'The development and deployment of a networked infrastructure and culture through which resources - be they processing power, data, expertise, or person power - can be shared in a secure environment, in which new forms of collaboration can emerge, and new and advanced methodologies explored' - AHDS e-Science Scoping Study 2006 http://ahds.ac.uk/e-science/e-science-scoping-study.htm

6. Research funding (just announced): £2m; 2007 - 2010 Relocating Choreographic Process: The impact of Grid technologies and collaborative memory on the documentation of practice-led research in dance University of Luton Image, Text, Interpretation: e-Science, Technology and Documents University of Oxford Purcell Plus: Exploring an eScience Methodology for Musicologists Goldsmiths College Medieval Warfare on the Grid: The Case of Manzikert University of Birmingham E-Curator: 3D colour scans for remote object identification and assessment University College London Archaeotools: Data mining, facetted classification and E-archaeology University of York musicSpace: Using and Evaluating e-Science Design Methods and Technologies to Improve Access to Heterogeneous Music Resources for Musicology University of Southampton

7. Background: Silchester VRE project

8. Integrated Archeological Database (IADB)

9. Stuart Dunn Co-directors Research Associates Lorna Hughes Sheila Anderson Tobias Blanke