PEGASUS : sharing virtual reality exhibitions over the Grid, a pilot and demonstrator
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Sheffield
Department Name: French
Abstract
A major international exhibition provisionally entitled Picture the Middle Ages : Arms, Armour and Manuscripts from the 100 Years' War will be held at the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds UK, between Fall 2007 and Spring 2008. Sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust, it is based on completed research by the applicant on a group of early 15th-century illuminated manuscripts of Jehan Froissart's Chronicles. This free exhibition offers a marvellous platform for the development of experimental software and grid-enabled technologies for widening and enhancing its dissemination to a broader public in this country and in the USA, and to explore the potential for future Armouries events such as Henry VIII (Tower of London, 2009).Evaluation of the affective impact of the exhibition will be carried out by members of the EPSRC-funded Affective Communication research network, via an AHRC Designing for the 21st Century award (PI Chris Rust, Sheffield Hallam University).Innovative 3D display software and a project website are supported by a dti KTP with Tribal Group, Sheffield, and the applicant. Pre- and post- exhibition trialling will be done by History, English and ICT pupils from St Mary's High School, Chesterfield.One of the four original manuscripts will be displayed in low, dramatic lighting, in a sealed, glazed case, forming the centrepiece of the exhibition. The first contact that visitors will have with the manuscript will be via a 3D immersion experience of the manuscript codex (software by Tribal, Genesys and ZOO Digital; hardware by Inition and Eon). Its virtual 'pages' will be comprehensively explorable (unlike the real object) and hotspotted to enable engagement with different facets of its content and materiality. Several key themes will be engaged with:The Hundred Years' WarJehan Froissart and his ChroniclesConflict, Politics and Warfare in the late 14th centuryArms, Armour and CombattantsLife in a CastleSiege WarfareRulers, Realms and PropagandaAlso:Chronicles in the Making: from sheepskin to parchment bookThe Pierre de Liffol manuscripts: a medieval entrepreneurThe Stonyhurst Manuscript and its 10 'relatives' (illuminated manuscripts from Paris, London, New York, Besanon and Toulouse)Each themed area will be presented with specific reference to the visitor groups most commonly identified by the Armouries in term of the plausible depth of their curiosity, likely engagement and attention span. Account will also be taken of different age groups and of the particular needs of people with disabilities.PDA devices interfacing with RFID tags will be used to provide visitors with a range of optional audio-visual routes through the exhibition (U of Sheffield completed PhD project).The Stonyhurst College manuscript book and its virtual 'companions' will be complemented by a display of contemporary arms and armour from the Royal Armouries' own collections. In addition to website material, the fixed display of the Stonyhurst manuscript book will be enriched and expanded via the interactive 3D display, and through a game and competition devised by Genesys and ZOO Digital Interactive DVD and Video (Sheffield).The process of designing the exhibition has generated a number of exciting ideas, the most appealing of which has centred on the challenge of sharing the exhibition's most absorbing and innovative features with remote audiences at the Royal Armouries' other venues: the Tower of London, Ft Nelson and the Frazier in Louisville, KY, using high-speed/capacity grid resources. The Frazier enjoys federal funding to support such innovation; the Royal Armouries Museum has no such support and is therefore backing the applicant's present application for the purposes described above. Requested: employment costs for a FT technical developer, contribution to Armouries, WUN Grid Bergen and White Rose Grid development costs, plus 10% of Prof Ainsworth's and Dr Romano's time.
Organisations
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ORCID iD |
| Peter Ainsworth (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Ainsworth PF
(2011)
Digital Attraction: from the real to the virtual in manuscript studies
in Forum: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & The Arts, issue on Authenticity
Ainsworth PF
(2009)
e-Science for medievalists: options, challenges, solutions and opportunities
in Digital Humanities Quarterly
Ainsworth PF
(2011)
Breaching the Strongroom : a Pervasive Informatics Approach to Working with Medieval Manuscripts
in Proceedings of the KMIS 2011 International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing, Paris, Université de Créteil
| Description | Our prime objective was to develop a grid-enabled interface using Storage Resource Broker clientware designed at the University of California San Diego to establish a platform for sharing and displaying in real-time selected virtual reality exhibition materials of mutual interest to a consortium of libraries, museums and HE institutions, drawing on high-volume, high-resolution digital image datasets managed via compatible Solaris SUN servers. This objective was fully achieved and successfully tested during the third quarter of 2008 on an exhibition at the Royal Armouries, and during the Spring of 2010 at a second exhibition at the Musée de l'Armée in Paris (both described below under Exploitation routes). A secure infrastructure allowed our partner museums to create, share and exchange materials with us and-ultimately-to reach audiences of visitors in excess of 50 000 at Leeds and 80 000 in Paris (see below under Exploitation routes). A further development, also described below, was the establishment of an international interdisciplinary consortium (Sheffield / Urbana-Champaign / NCSA / Michigan) intent on working collaboratively via this platform to develop a funding bid for a data mining project. |
| Exploitation Route | The most obvious (and already proven) use for the system is for linking museum partners separated by vast distances but whose collections are known to be, or prove to be, of mutual interest. During a visit to Canada interest was expressed in using the system to build a virtual exhibition to be shared via large networked screens at each partner institution (Saskatchewan, Ontario, Northern Territories and British Columbia, with related artefacts, e.g. Inuit sculptures featured from each and brought together via the Grid. This remains a potential development; at time of writing it is still unrealised due to lack of available funding. PEGASUS supported the collaborative online design of the interactive KIOSQUE software deployed at exhibitions mounted at the Royal Armouries (Leeds) and Musée de l'Armée, Hôtel national des Invalides (Paris), on the Depiction of Warfare and Society in Froissart's Chronicles, using software tools loaded onto the University of Sheffield's SRB server. Leeds and Paris colleagues worked with us online towards the build for these two bilingual exhibitions (featuring on-site local versions of KIOSQUE virtual tours and interactive displays, plus scenography and other materials). Details of the exhibitions follow:- Exhibition (1): Jehan Froissart and the Hundred Years War. Royal Armouries, Leeds. December 2007 to April 2008. Gallery at: http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/panoply/exhibitions/leeds/index.html Exhibition (2): Cy commencent : Jean Froissart et la guerre de Cent Ans. Musée de l'Armée, Hôtel national des Invalides, Paris, April-July 2010. Gallery: http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/panoply/exhibitions/paris/index.html The 'further aim' referred to above was to establish a grid-based science collaboration with academic colleagues at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. This was done, and fed into projects with the College of Liberal Arts at Urbana-Champaign, led by Professors Anne D Hedeman (Medieval Art History) and Karen Fresco (Medieval French). These links were fostered by the close working partnership linking the Humanities Research Institute at Sheffield to the White Rose and WUN Grids, and to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (also located at Urbana-Champaign), via TeraGrid. In turn it became apparent that our Illinois colleagues were eager to collaborate with us on a joint programme with colleagues at the Michigan State University on on a bid to the joint JISC-NSF-NEH "Digging into Data" programme, for grid-based data-mining research to be conducted together on Medieval Manuscripts, Early Modern French and British Maps, and Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Quilts. The bid was successful and funded over 18 months; the project completed its work in 2011, with an extension until March for the Sheffield team agreed (due to a late start occasioned by the tripartite funding regime): http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/diggingintodata/authorship.aspx The project was formally launched at a major conference, 9-10 June 2011, in Washington DC. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| URL | http://www.shef.ac.uk/hri/projects/projectpages/pegasus |
| Description | Pegasus was funded with the aim of promoting, demonstrating and running experiments with grid technologies. The project developed a grid-enabled interface using Storage Resource Broker clientware designed at the University of California San Diego to establish a program for sharing and displaying in real-time selected virtual reality exhibition materials of mutual interest to partner institutions, drawing on high-volume, high-resolution digital image datasets held on and managed via compatible Solaris SUN servers. Robust protocols permitted real-time access to and distribution of exhibition packages developed at the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds. Pegasus established a secure infrastructure to allow partner museums to create, share and exchange such materials with the other's audiences and researchers. In addition, Pegasus created the resources needed to share these materials, virtually, with other project partners (JISC/NEH/NSF-funded Digging into Image Data in 2010). |
| First Year Of Impact | 2008 |
| Sector | Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal |
| Description | Digging into Data to Answer Authorship-Related Questions |
| Amount | £51,181 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Jisc |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2010 |
| End | 07/2011 |
| Description | Digitising Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts for the Grid |
| Amount | £5,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Worldwide Universities Network |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2008 |
| End | 12/2008 |
| Description | Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, Kiosque interactive exhibition software |
| Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2006 |
| End | 05/2008 |
| Description | Digitising Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts for the Grid |
| Organisation | Royal Library of Belgium |
| Country | Belgium |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Funding from the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN Grid) supported our research on and digitisation of illuminated manuscripts held at major French and Belgian research libraries. We produced codicological and iconographical commentaries used for two national exhibitions (Royal Armouries, Leeds; Musée national de l'Armée, Invalides, Paris). |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique and Bibliothèque du Patrimoine at Toulouse opened their special collections to the Online Froissart project and gave permission for us to photograph high-resolution images of several priceless 15th-century illuminated manuscripts. The facsimiles can be viewed for free on the Online Froissart website |
| Impact | High-resolution facsimiles of four complete 15th-century illuminated manuscripts of Froissart's Chronicles, with photographer Colin Dunn of Scriptura Ltd. These were used for the software developed for two national exhibitions (Leeds and Paris), for the AHRC-funded Online Froissart, and for the EPSRC Pegasus and JISC Digging into Image Data projects. |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | Digitising Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts for the Grid |
| Organisation | Toulouse Library for Study and Heritage |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Funding from the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN Grid) supported our research on and digitisation of illuminated manuscripts held at major French and Belgian research libraries. We produced codicological and iconographical commentaries used for two national exhibitions (Royal Armouries, Leeds; Musée national de l'Armée, Invalides, Paris). |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique and Bibliothèque du Patrimoine at Toulouse opened their special collections to the Online Froissart project and gave permission for us to photograph high-resolution images of several priceless 15th-century illuminated manuscripts. The facsimiles can be viewed for free on the Online Froissart website |
| Impact | High-resolution facsimiles of four complete 15th-century illuminated manuscripts of Froissart's Chronicles, with photographer Colin Dunn of Scriptura Ltd. These were used for the software developed for two national exhibitions (Leeds and Paris), for the AHRC-funded Online Froissart, and for the EPSRC Pegasus and JISC Digging into Image Data projects. |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | Digitising Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts for the Grid |
| Organisation | Worldwide Universities Network |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Funding from the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN Grid) supported our research on and digitisation of illuminated manuscripts held at major French and Belgian research libraries. We produced codicological and iconographical commentaries used for two national exhibitions (Royal Armouries, Leeds; Musée national de l'Armée, Invalides, Paris). |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique and Bibliothèque du Patrimoine at Toulouse opened their special collections to the Online Froissart project and gave permission for us to photograph high-resolution images of several priceless 15th-century illuminated manuscripts. The facsimiles can be viewed for free on the Online Froissart website |
| Impact | High-resolution facsimiles of four complete 15th-century illuminated manuscripts of Froissart's Chronicles, with photographer Colin Dunn of Scriptura Ltd. These were used for the software developed for two national exhibitions (Leeds and Paris), for the AHRC-funded Online Froissart, and for the EPSRC Pegasus and JISC Digging into Image Data projects. |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | JISC/NEH/NSF Digging into Image Data network: Universy of Sheffield, State University of Michigan, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Organisation | Michigan State University |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | From Final Report |
| Collaborator Contribution | Digging into Data to Answer Authorship Related Questions set out to explore authorship studies of visual arts through computational image analyses. Three datasets of visual works - 15th-century manuscripts, 17th- and 18th-century maps, and 19th-and 21st-century quilts - were chosen to investigate what might be revealed about the authors and their artistic lineages by comparing manuscripts, maps, and quilts across four centuries; the project investigated the accuracy and computational scalability of adaptive image analyses when applied to diverse collections of image data. Outcomes published during a major international conference in Washington DC in July 2011, with our partners from the State University of Michigan, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana- Champaign. |
| Impact | The collaboration covered medieval manuscript and iconographic studies, supercomputing and data analysis, and social and cultural history of artefacts. Publications by Ainsworth and Meredith are recorded on ResearchFish. |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | JISC/NEH/NSF Digging into Image Data network: Universy of Sheffield, State University of Michigan, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Organisation | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | From Final Report |
| Collaborator Contribution | Digging into Data to Answer Authorship Related Questions set out to explore authorship studies of visual arts through computational image analyses. Three datasets of visual works - 15th-century manuscripts, 17th- and 18th-century maps, and 19th-and 21st-century quilts - were chosen to investigate what might be revealed about the authors and their artistic lineages by comparing manuscripts, maps, and quilts across four centuries; the project investigated the accuracy and computational scalability of adaptive image analyses when applied to diverse collections of image data. Outcomes published during a major international conference in Washington DC in July 2011, with our partners from the State University of Michigan, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana- Champaign. |
| Impact | The collaboration covered medieval manuscript and iconographic studies, supercomputing and data analysis, and social and cultural history of artefacts. Publications by Ainsworth and Meredith are recorded on ResearchFish. |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Title | Browsing Components and XML Template for KIOSQUE within PEGASUS |
| Description | Manuscript browsing components and XML template for KIOSQUE within PEGASUS. This allows generic manuscripts to be easily viewed in a book-like [cf. "Turning-the-Pages"] style using only the image catalogue XML files required by VIRTUAL VELLUM. The browsing template is therefore adaptable to any such image collection (by just changing a filename within the template) and also provides contextual information. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2008 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Robust protocols permitted real-time access to and distribution of exhibition packages developed at the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds. Pegasus established a secure infrastructure to allow each partner museum to create, share and exchange such materials with the other's audiences and researchers. |
| URL | http://hridigital.shef.ac.uk/pegasus |
| Title | Exhibition Selector and Content Loader for KIOSQUE |
| Description | Helper tools to facilitate the delivery and management of the content on the SRB system. These include an exhibition selector and content uploader, and some user permissions tools. All of these tools are available as open source. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2011 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | The Exhibitor package was taken into several South Yorkshire schools in 2012, and successfully used there. |
| URL | http://hridigital.shef.ac.uk/exhibitor-project |
| Title | KIOSQUE engine and content DTD/XML |
| Description | Revised KIOSQUE engine and content DTD/XML specifications specifically designed to host virtual exhibitions via HTTP, FTP and/or SRB data sources. The further development of the KIOSQUE engine includes an upgrade to allow it to run in a Java applet configuration as well as in a stand-alone desktop mode. This required additional considerations such as limited memory, resources and bandwidth. The revisions made were informed by performance measures and user engagement feedback throughout the project. |
| Type Of Technology | Grid Application |
| Year Produced | 2007 |
| Impact | Use for two major exhibitions, Royal Armouries (Leeds, 2007-08) and Musée national de l'Armée (Paris, 2010). |
| URL | https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/hri/projects/projectpages/kiosque/screenshots |
| Title | VIRTUAL VELLUM for SRB Data Grid |
| Description | Updated version of the VIRTUAL VELLUM software to support multi-user collaboration over an SRB data grid in (for example) access grid meetings or similar sessions |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2008 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Successfully used for the JISC-funded Digging into Image Data project in 2010. |
| URL | https://www.shef.ac.uk/hri/projects/projectpages/vv/downloads |
| Description | Ainsworth PF, Pegasus symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | An NSF-funded Imaging and Image Analyses Workshop was held at the National Supercomputing Center, Urbana-Champaign, in April 2009, at which Ainsworth presented by invitation the outcomes of the EPSRC-funded PEGASUS project. This led in part, ultimately, to the successful JISC/NSF/NEH Digging into Data to Answer Image-Related Questions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| URL | http://hridigital.shef.ac.uk/digging-into-image-data |
| Description | Ainsworth PF, Pegasus, Virtual Vellum and the Froissart Manuscripts Project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This was an invited live Access and Data Grid Workshop conducted synchronously at the Universities of Ottawa (PI plus Professor Andrew Taylor), Sheffield (Dr MJ Meredith) and Saskatchewan (Canadian research colleagues), Oct 2008. Interactive tools were successfully used and operated from each of the 3 particiapting sites. There was lively interest from faculty and graduate students, and raised awareness of the potential uses of the Access Grid for live, shared graduate teaching and learning, as well as for the dissemination of research material. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| Description | Ainsworth PF, invitation and repeat invitation to visit the University of Stockholm to publicise the Online Froissart, Pegasus and Virtual Vellum projects |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | In September 2008 PI Ainsworth accepted an invitation to speak to the Department of English and Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Stockholm on 'Froissart as Historian', and also on 'PANOPLY, PEGASUS and VIRTUAL VELLUM : tools for electronic editions'. This led to an invitation to take up a Visiting Professorship in September-October 2009, and to deliver a series of research seminars and masterclasses to an audience that included graduate students and senior Faculty members from Stockholm, Uppsala and Copenhagen. Ainsworth's visiting lecture and professorship enabled him to disseminate the first fruits (and later the more developed first outcomes) from the AHRC Online Froissart project, and also from the Virtual Vellum and Pegasus projects. I was awarded a Visiting Professorship at the University of Stockholm specifically to demonstrate the first fruits of the Online Froissart and its associated projects. During my visit I was invited to view rare medieval manuscripts at Stockholm and Uppsala University Libraries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008,2009 |
| Description | Ainsworth PF, invited visit to the Departments of English and French, University of Virginia at Charlottesville |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | From 15-20 October 2013 Professor Ainsworth visited by invitation the Departments of French and English at the University of Virginia (Charlottesville), USA, to speak to Faculty and graduate students about the Online Froissart and his international exhibitions. In addition, he delivered an invited public lecture on Froissart's Chronicles. Graduate students were introduced to new ways of working online with medieval manuscript materials. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Ainsworth PF, membership of Advisory Boards, plus Peer Review College Appointments, Visiting Professorships |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Advisory Board, Europeana Regia project (Framework 7, EU), Bibliothèque nationale de France, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique etc, 2010-present Advisory Board, Manuscripts Online (JISC-funded; by invitation of the JISC) 2011-present Peer Review College, EPSRC (Grid and e-Science: by invitation), 2009-2011 Invited to serve on Advisory Board, Jean de Vignay Online Edition project (Louvain), 2009 AHRC Knowledge Transfer and Major Research Grants Panel, 2009-2011 Visiting Professorships, Universities of Stockholm and Ottawa. While in Ottawa, grid seminars with the Universities of Calgary, Saskatchewan, British Columbia and Sheffield using KIOSQUE, VIRTUAL VELLUM, PEGASUS and SRB client software. Awards were made to successful projects, Visiting Professorships were successfully undertaken. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009,2010,2011,2012 |
| Description | Ainsworth PF, membership of EPSRC panel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | EPSRC e-Science and Grid Programme funding panel, April 2008. Recommendations from panel led to awards being made. Funding awards made to successful bidders from university consortia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| Description | Meredith MJ and Ainsworth PF co-presention at DARIAH |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | A large number of Arts and Humanities researchers attended this international event showcasing the best in research in the Digital Arts and Humanities. We received expressions of interest from other delegates, and viewed other projects that were of interest to us. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Meredith MJ and Ainsworth PF, All Hands Conference Presentations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Regular invitations from AHeSSC/White Rose Grid/EPSRC to demonstrate at these successive All Hands conferences in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 allowed us to showcase and talk about our e-Science projects, to influence e-Science policy and funding modes, and to learn from other projects. New funding streams post 2010, via AHRC in particular. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2006,2007,2008,2009,2010 |
| Description | Meredith MJ, Network of Expert Centres workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Participants heard Meredith speak about our contribution to Arts and Humanities research deploying Digital Technologies. Enhanced awareness amongst the audience of what can be achieved. Indirectly, impact on decisions taken by funders of future research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| Description | Meredith MJ, Supercomputer 2010, Grand Challenges in Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Meredith MJ was invited to sit on a panel at Supercomputer 2010 on Grand Challenges in Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, in Nov ember 2010. This allowed him to disseminate data, results and ideas from our own projects, and to engage with researchers doing cognate or similar work at an international gathering featuring the best in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, focused on Grand Challenges Networking and the opportunity to learn from other scholars and researchers working in similar fields. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Meredith MJ, UK e-Science Engineering Task Force |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Meredith's invitation to speak at the UK e-Science Engineering Task Force meeting held in March 2008 allowed him to influence thinking and future funding of e-Science in Great Britain, and to disseminate ideas and thinking from our projects. Enhanced funding streams and research programmes due to raised profile for e-Science in the UK and abroad, especially in the USA (with Ameircan partners such as NSF and NEH), via White Rose Grid and Worldwide Universities Network (WUN). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| Description | Meredith MJ, e-Uptake workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meredith was invited to speak at this e-Uptake workshop focusing on the update of e-Infrastructure services in the Arts and Humanities, held in July 2010. It allowed him to disseminate ideas from our projects, and to feed informed comment into the decision making process designed to enhance the use and spread of Digital Arts and Humanities Enhancement of Digital Arts and Humanities, including raised profile and (ultimately) increase in funding programmes and streams. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Meredith MJ, invited paper at NSF-sponsored Imaging and Image Analyses event, NCSA Urbana-Champaign |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Meredith was invited to speak at this workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation, USA, on Cross-Disciplinary Investigations in Imaging and Image Analyses. The workshop was held at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in April 2011. Results included feedback into the "Digging into Image Data" project, and dissemination and refinement of data from our own projects. There was helpful input from this meeting into the later stages of our Digging into Image Data project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Meredith MJ, paper entitled Using SRB for HPC in the Humanities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | SC08/I-CHASS-funded workshop: High-Performance Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science: 20-minute presentation plus 60-minute lab class delivered by Dr Michael Meredith (the project postdoc). During the lab class, transatlantic SRB experiments were conducted, including testing of performance and work on best practices and usability. Outcomes from performance and best practices were mirrored by local SRB tests and fed into a technical report paper on SRB. The outcomes of the usability focus groups were used to inform, tweak and further develop the mechanism for delivering virtual exhibitions online from a user perspective. . Outcomes from performance and best practices were mirrored by local Storage Resource Broker tests and fed into a technical report paper on SRB. The outcomes of the usability focus groups were used to inform, tweak and further develop the mechanism for delivering virtual exhibitions online from a user perspective. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |