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.

如果学者们以反映共享材料和加强讨论的现有方法的方式使用AG，那么结果必然会与其他形式的学术互动所产生的结果相同。如果 AG 会议的结构与传统研讨会类似，那么它产生与良好研讨会类似的结果也就不足为奇了。这在第一届谢菲尔德数字图像研讨会的组织方式中显而易见。大多数参与者只是进行 PowerPoint 演示，展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，虚拟牛皮纸的概念目前仍然很大程度上受到显示手稿数字图像的现有方法的影响。用户一次从一系列缩略图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 的能力远不止于此。瓷砖墙可能会同时显示整个手稿或印刷书籍，以会议参与者可以改变的各种配置。这将使人们对手稿的结构和特征产生全新的认识，即使手稿实际存在，也很难实现这一点。对于学者使用手稿、印刷材料甚至实物来说，一个持续存在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、复杂且昂贵。在 AG 上能否更快、更有趣地实现相同的结果？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，就像舞者与虚拟舞伴互动一样。