Here, the Australian government is undertaking a review of the National Collaborative Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) Roadmap, and which has generated a proposal for a new research capability in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS), titled ‘Transforming HASS Research’. [see The Australian /Higher Education article 20 August 2008, 'Research to cut through cackle']The details of this proposal were included in the recently released Exposure Draft of 2008 Strategic Roadmap for Australian Research Infrastructure. As a result, the Expert Working Group for HASS which produced this proposal met in a one day workshop to assist with this process at Old Canberra House, the ANU.
Chad is one of the program directors for the Mellon Foundation’s ‘Bamboo Project’ -- a planning project aimed at developing shared technology services for research in the arts and humanities in the US, with important parallels to the Australian HASS-NCRIS developments.
This is a significant development, but one that requires more discussion and consultation within the relevant sectors before planning proceeds much further. Next, there will be a widening of the steering group and reference group(s) to include greater representation from Art & Design, Theatre & Dance, Music & Sound, Film & Animation. Looking forward to more & seeing what comes next . . .
From the Arts perspective (the 'A' in HASS), this means: how might eResearch in sectors such as Film, Animation, Art & Design, Music and Sound, Theatre & Dance - benefit from $.5 bil. of ICT network and grid computing research infrastructure? For example: greater interdisciplinary collaboration; curated media archives as 'data sets' to promote and drive new research questions and outputs; grid computing which has the capacity to drive (real) time-based works, nationally & internationally.
Among the discussions and break out panels for Humanites, the Creative & Performing Arts and Social Sciences representatives, an international guest speaker, Chad Kainz (Senior Director for Academic Technologies, University of Chicago) gave an enthralling presentation.
Chad is one of the program directors for the Mellon Foundation’s ‘Bamboo Project’ -- a planning project aimed at developing shared technology services for research in the arts and humanities in the US, with important parallels to the Australian HASS-NCRIS developments.
This is a significant development, but one that requires more discussion and consultation within the relevant sectors before planning proceeds much further. Next, there will be a widening of the steering group and reference group(s) to include greater representation from Art & Design, Theatre & Dance, Music & Sound, Film & Animation. Looking forward to more & seeing what comes next . . .
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