e-Research in the Arts and Humanities

This seminar is open to all and will start at 2pm in the OeRC Access Grid (room 277 - access available via 7 Keble Road).

This seminar may be broadcast with permission via video-link to other e-Research South venues. Only the speaker will be visible from other locations. Recording of this seminar is prohibited.

Abstract

The talk will review strategic developments and issues in national-level support for the use of ICT in arts and humanities research over the last few years. It will attempt an evaluation of the work of the AHRC’s recently-concluded  ICT in Arts and Humanities Research Programme, the aims of which were to build national capacity in the use of ICT for arts and humanities research and to advise the AHRC on matters of ICT strategy. It will conclude with a look at future problems and prospects, particularly in the light of the recent closure of the Arts and Humanities Data Service.

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David Robey was until recently Director of the AHRC’s ICT in Arts and Humanities Research Programme and Professor of Italian at Reading University. Formerly Professor of Italian at Manchester University, he is also Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. He has published on 15th-century Italian humanism (educational and poetic theory), language and style in Dante and Renaissance narrative poetry, the computer analysis of literature, and modern critical theory.

He is author of a computer-based study on Sound and Structure in Dante's 'Divine Comedy' (Oxford University Press, 2000), and of a substantial database on Sound and Metre in Italian Narrative Verse. He was also joint editor of the Oxford Companion to Italian Literature, now translated as the Enciclopedia Oxford/Zanichelli della Letteratura Italiana. He is currently arts and humanities consultant for OeRC.