(Workshop on 16th-19th June 2007, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Kent)
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Some results from the workshop
Following is the programme as it was conducted over the workshop
Day 1 - June 16th
- 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.
links to slides
Projected Outcomes
Summary of Discussed Themes
Day 2 - June 17th
Themes
- 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.
Projected Outcomes
- A developmental pathway to E-Anthropology.
- What we might gain from this.
- Inter- and multi-disciplinary impact.
- Policy 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. Link Methods Guide
- Specify some use cases for E-Anthropology.
- Building a virtual E-Anthopology Coll[ea]ge.
Day 3 - June 18th
Day 4 - June 19th