Workshop Agenda
June 15th
Day 0: Destination E-Anthropology
Outcome for day 0: Are your going to Canterbury? (Let us know!). Orientation, room, light discussion, dinner, drinks.
- 12.00-18:00 Arrive and report to the Anthropology Department (Marlowe Building). See map on wiki.
- 18:00-21:30 Light briefing over dinner in college. A bit of beer. Dinner, drinks and talk.
Residential rooms are in Becket Court adjacent to Eliot College
June 16th
Day 1: Defining E-Anthropology
Outcomes for day 1: How E-Anthropology and E-Science are related. Identify issues in anthropology where cyberinfrastructure is needed. Identify capabilities important to implement in cyberinfrastructure. How does E-Anthropology relate to the 'four fields'.
- 10.00-10.30 Coffee/Tea
- 10.30-11.45 General briefing relating to the workshop. Terms of reference. Basic objectives. What is E-Science? Approaches to defining E-Anthropology. Basic requirements. Current barriers to progress in anthropology. How might E-Anthropology overcome these. Web Services or Grid. E-Commons. Trust. Discussion.
- 11.45-12.00 Coffee/Tea
- 12.00-13.00 Discuss and identify broad topics with division into informal groups for after lunch.
- 13.00-14.00 Lunch (on site).
- 14.00-15:45 Smaller Group work developing themes and topics identified in earlier session.
- 15:45-16:00 Coffee/Tea
- 16:00-17:30 Presentation and discussion of themes and topics.
- 17:30-18:30 Whatever
- 18:30-20:30 Dinner
- 20:30... Drinks and Discussion
June 17th
Day 2: Designing E-Anthropology
Outcomes for day 2: A developmental pathway to E-Anthropology. What we might gain from this. Inter- and multi-disciplinary impact. Develop examples of specific issues and topics in anthropology that cyberinfrastructure can be applied to. Develop specification of capabilities that would be important to implement. Specify some use cases for E-Anthropology. Building a virtual E-Anthopology Coll[ea]ge.
- 10.00-11.30 General briefing and discussion. How we defined E-Anthropology. How will anthropology benefit? Can E-Anthropology help support the "four field" approach? Developing a pathway to E-Anthropology. Developing use cases for E-Anthropology. Developing examples, topical and theoretical, where E-Anthropology can be applied. Introducing AnthroGrid. What is needed in an Anthropology Grid? Now we have the domain name and a few machines... how do we build one? Discussion.
- 11.30-11.45 Coffee/Tea
- 11.45-13.00 Discussing and Identifying broad topics and division into informal groups for after lunch.
- 13.00-14.00 Lunch
- 14.00-15:30 Informal Group and Individual discussion
- 15:30-15:45 Coffee/Tea
- 15:45-17:15 Presentation and discussion of themes and topics.
- 17:30 Leave for walking tour
- 18:00-20:00 Walking tour of Canterbury
- 20:00... Dinner, Drinks and Discussion
June 18th
Day 3: Doing E-Anthropology
Outcomes for day 3: Proposals for specific research on method, theory and topics in anthropology. How will the infrastructure be funded? Capabilities that must be developed and implemented and relation to different research approaches. How to fund e-anthropology.
- 10.00-11.30 General briefing and discussion. Funding opportunities. E-Science as a national research priority in the UK and USA. How will anthropology benefit. Impact on anthropological research. Developing our examples, topical and theoretical, into proposals. The role of AnthroGrid as anthropological commons. Building a better AnthroGrid. Discussion.
- 11.30-11.45 Coffee/Tea
- 11.45-13.00 Discussing and Identifying themes and division into informal groups for after lunch.
- 13.00-14.00 Lunch
- 14.00-15:45 Informal Group and Individual discussion
- 15:45-16:00 Coffee/Tea
- 16:00-17:30 Presentation and discussion of themes and topics. What we will report in the open roundtable.
- 17:30-18:30 Whatever
- 19:00-21:00 Dinner
- 21:00... Drinks and Discussion
June 19th
Day 4: Discussing E-Anthropology
Outcomes for day 4: Present findings of the workshop in an open roundtable discussion to which completing PhD students and UK Anthropology faculty have been invited. Introduction (30 minutes), Short presentations (5 minutes from 6 members of the workshop) with a aim to benefit from the views on the audience.
- 12.30-13.00 Reception. Coffee/Tea
- 13.00-13.45 Introduction and discussion
- 13.45-14.00 Break.
- 14.00-15.00 Roundtable discussion (with public involvement)
- 15.00-15:30 Coffee/Tea/Snacks
- 15:30-17:00 Open Discussion
- 17:00-17:30 Closing comments by the panel.
- 18:30-19:00 Workshop participants meet for feedback discussion.
- 19:00-21:00 Dinner
- 21:00... Drinks and Discussion