Changing the Center of Gravity: Transforming Classical Studies Through Cyberinfrastructure

seales, William b .肯塔基大学改变研究重心：通过网络基础设施改造古典研究本项目请求资金支持将在肯塔基大学举行的为期两天的以计算人文学科为重点的研讨会。研讨会的目的是了解新的计算工具和资源如何被人文主义者所采用，并应用于长期以来被认为遥不可及的问题，同时揭示了信息技术研究的新挑战和期望的能力。这次会议将汇集大约25名与会者，他们代表了不同的、有经验的领域和IT学者和实践者。这些来自不同领域的学者都通过他们的工作为塑造一个愿景做出了贡献，即计算、工具和底层技术基础设施如何更广泛地塑造古典文学和人文学科研究和学术的未来。本质上无法被广泛学术使用的实物形式的文物和手稿被准确地呈现为数字形式，并广泛分发给学生和研究人员进行检查和分析。一个具体的预期结果是对经典网络基础设施的新兴状态的清晰描述，以及它如何将重心从该领域的传统结构和实践中转移出来，而传统结构和实践一直存在于印刷材料中。当前和不断发展的一套基于技术的工具（计算算法、数字化、数据库、网络访问、标记、索引和交叉引用档案）是实质性的，它们共同形成了一种令人印象深刻的转变，远离了由印刷定义的传统形式。第二个预期结果是确定计算/人文协作工作的全球生产和改进，并阐明许多领域的最新进展。

AbstractIIS - 0736476Seales, William B.University of KentuckyChanging the Center of Gravity: Transforming Classical Studies through CyberinfrastructureThis project requests funds to support a two-day workshop to be held at the University of Kentucky focussed on computational humanities. The purpose of the workshop is to understand how new computational tools and resources have been taken up by humanists and applied to problems long considered out of reach, and at the same time revealed new challenges and desired capabilities for information technologies research. This meeting will bring together approximately 25 participants representing a diverse and experienced group of domain and IT scholars and practitioners. These scholars from diverse fields have all contributed to shaping through their work a vision for how computation, tools and underlying technical infrastructure can shape the future of research and scholarship in the Classics and humanities more generally. Artifacts and manuscripts essentially inaccessable for broad scholarly use in their physical form have been accurately rendered in digital form and distributed widely for examination and analysis by students and researchers. A specific expected outcome is an articulated description of the emerging state of cyberinfrastructure for the Classics and how it has been shifting the center of gravity away from the traditional structures and practices in the field, which has been in printed materials. The current and evolving set of tools based on technology (computational algorithms; digitization; databases; network access; tagged, indexed and cross-referenced archives) is substantial and collectively forms an impressive shift away from the traditional forms defined by print. A second expected outcome is identifying the global production and refinement of computing/humanities collaborative work and elucidate state-of-the-art progress in a number of areas.