(Workshop on 16th-19th June 2007, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Kent)

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Some results from the workshop

• Podcasts
• Use Cases
• Further Work
• Workshop Conclusions
• Workshop Report

Following is the programme as it was conducted over the workshop

Day 1 - June 16th

Themes 16th June

• 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

• 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'.

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.

• Webservice Examples
• anthrospace.net myanthrospace.net
• Outcome Matrix

Day 3 - June 18th

Day 4 - June 19th

Presentations

Themes/Requirements Matrix

Useful tools