ReACH: Researching e-science Analysis of Census Holdings

E-Science允许以复杂和新颖的方式快速、高效地搜索和分析大型数据集。由于缺乏可用的数据集，以及对电子科学技术的了解或接触不多，几乎没有将网格技术的处理能力应用于人文数据。REACH研讨会系列旨在调查网格计算对历史学家、人文主义者、数字消费者和普通公众感兴趣的大型数据集的潜在应用：历史人口普查记录。研讨会系列的项目伙伴包括伦敦大学学院、国家档案馆和Ancestry.co.uk。该项目力求：突出有关将电子科学技术应用于人文数据集的问题，利用伦敦大学学院的研究计算设施为Ancestry.co.uk的历史数据集制定全面分析的项目建议书，汇集广泛的跨学科专业知识以确保最佳做法，突出任何可能妨碍大型项目有用或成功的令人担忧的问题，确定历史学家对开展更大规模项目的好处和关注的观点，利用现有的数据集预测未来项目将产生的结果的形式和类型，并确定转录数据集的全面性和准确性。

e-Science allows large datasets to be searched and analysed quickly, efficiently, and in complex and novel ways. Little application has been made of the processing power of grid technologies to humanities data, due to lack of available datasets, and little understanding of or access to e-Science technologies. The ReACH workshop series aimed to investigate the potential application of grid computing to a large dataset of interest to historians, humanists, digital consumers, and the general public: historical census records. The project partners for the workshop series included UCL, The National Archives, and Ancestry.co.uk.The project sought to: highlight issues regarding the application of e-Science technologies to Humanities datasets, develop a project proposal for full scale analysis of Ancestry.co.uk's historical datasets utilising Research Computing facilities at UCL, bring together a wide range of interdisciplinary expertise to ensure best practice, highlight any issues of concern which would preclude a large scale project from being useful or successful, ascertain the historians viewpoint of the benefits and concerns in undertaking a larger scale project, predict the form and type of results which will emanate from a future project with the available datasets, and ascertain the comprehensiveness and accuracy of the transcribed datasets.