The Access Grid in Collaborative Arts and Humanities Research

艺术与人文合作研究中的访问网格

• 批准号: AH/E500382/1
• 负责人: David Shepherd
• 金额: $ 1.17万
• 依托单位: University of Sheffield
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2006 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FE500382%2F1
• 关键词: Access; Grid; Collaborative; Arts; Humanities

If the AG is used by scholars in a way that reflects existing methods of sharing materials and enhancing discussion, then the results are inevitably bound to be the same as those produced by other forms of scholarly interaction. If an AG session is structured like a conventional seminar, it should be no surprise if it produces similar outcomes to a good seminar. This is apparent in the way in which the first Sheffield Workshop on Digital Images was organised. Most of the participants simply had PowerPoint presentations showing images of manuscripts and other materials. As noted above, the Virtual Vellum package offered greater interactivity than PowerPoint. However, the concept of Virtual Vellum as it stands is still very much shaped by existing methods of displaying digital images of manuscripts. Users select one or two images at a time from a selection of thumbnails. The result remains the kind of 'show-and-tell' approach familiar from PowerPoint. Yet the AG is capable of much more. A tiled wall, could potentially display an entire manuscript or printed book at once, in various configurations which participants in the session could alter. This would give a completely new perception of the structure and character of the manuscript, one which it would be difficult to achieve even with the actual manuscript physically present. A constant problem for scholars using manuscripts, printed materials and even physical objects is that different parts of them are scattered in different places. Projects to reunite images of these dispersed collections and objects tend to be demanding, complex and expensive. Could the same results be achieved more quickly and interestingly on the AG? Perhaps one might even envisage manuscript scholars interacting with the avatar of a lost or dispersed manuscript in the same way that a dancer can interact with a virtual partner.

如果AG被学者以一种反映现有的共享材料和加强讨论的方法的方式使用，那么结果必然与其他形式的学术互动产生的结果相同。如果咨询小组会议的结构类似于传统的研讨会，那么如果它产生与好的研讨会类似的结果，就不足为奇了。这是显而易见的方式，其中第一次谢菲尔德研讨会的数字图像组织。大多数参与者只是用PowerPoint演示文稿显示手稿和其他材料的图像。如上所述，Virtual Vellum软件包提供了比PowerPoint更好的交互性。然而，虚拟皮纸的概念，因为它的立场仍然是非常由现有的方法显示数字图像的手稿形状。用户每次从缩略图选择中选择一个或两个图像。结果仍然是PowerPoint中常见的“展示和讲述”方法。然而，AG有能力做得更多。瓷砖墙可能会一次展示整本手稿或印刷书籍，并以各种配置供会议参与者更改。这将给手稿的结构和特征带来一个全新的认识，即使有实际的手稿也很难实现。对于使用手稿、印刷品甚至实物的学者来说，一个经常出现的问题是，它们的不同部分分散在不同的地方。将这些分散的收藏品和物品的图像重新组合起来的项目往往要求很高，复杂而且昂贵。在AG上是否可以更快、更有趣地实现同样的结果？也许人们甚至可以想象手稿学者与丢失或分散的手稿的化身进行互动，就像舞者与虚拟伴侣进行互动一样。