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GGF14 - The Fourteenth Global Grid Forum
June 27-30, 2005
Chicago, IL, USA

The WUN Cultural Computing Grid

Session Leads: Allison Clark, PhD and Kevin Franklin, EdD

Tuesday, June 28
2:30 - 4:00
Windsor Room

This panel will discuss the creation of a WUN Cultural Computing Grid.

This panel will discuss the creation of a Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) Cultural Computing Grid. The WUN is an international alliance of leading higher-educational institutions that builds upon its partners’ commitment to research quality and innovation in order to develop collaborations in interdisciplinary areas of global significance (see http://www.wun.ac.uk/).

With the creation of Cultural Computing Grid, we seek to establish a knowledge base and technology infrastructure for on-demand-access to digitized cultural artifacts. This nontraditional grid would provide access to materials, support tools for individuals and communities from populations who wish to access what may be a rich archive of heritage and cultural materials available in various locations throughout the world – but which for reasons of geography and/or access are not easily obtained. The discussion will include the technical as well as the sociological elements (social motivation and the challenges for developing a better social network, the need for education, outreach and training) involved in the creation of the WUN Cultural Computing Grid.

Our Objectives are:
• To prototype user-defined interfaces to the data-grid that are highly flexible and simple to use for depositing, accessing and analyzing digital artifacts.
• To document the process, design, implementation and communications of the team producing the infrastructure and content and the resulting knowledge base for presentation in scholarly journals, personal journals, technology manuals, web blogs and books.

Participants:
Allison Clark, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Reagan Moore, San Diego Supercomputing Center
Nosh Contractor, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Stephen Beck, Louisiana State University
David DeRoure, University of Southampton
Andre Brock, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Panel Organized by HASS-RG
Calendar: Windsor
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The Humanities, Arts and Social Science Research Group
Session Leads: Allison Clark, PhD and Kevin Franklin, EdD