Briefing Papers

[img_assist|nid=152|title=|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=140|height=78]The Access Grid (AG) is a global network of internet-enabled locations, or nodes, equipped with AV hardware 'microphones, cameras and projectors' linked by an arrangement of computers over the grid.

[img_assist|nid=207|title=|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=140|height=105]This paper contains sections on: Tools and Web Resources; Database Structures; Data Mining; Quantitative Methods; Visualization; and Geographical Information Systems.

[img_assist|nid=249|title=|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=140|height=103]Defining discreet scholarly territories for all disciplines is problematic but it could be argued that Library and Information Studies (LIS) is more problematic than most when it comes to understanding the scope of its remit.

The prodigious number of tools that are potentially relevant to researchers working in the field of MCH inevitably means that the items mentioned in this relatively brief paper will only represent a partial and subjective selection.

[img_assist|nid=223|title=|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=140|height=93]The focus of this paper is to take a very selective look at some of the ways that practitioners have used digital tools in the course of planning, designing, ‘doing’, communicating and documenting performancerelated works, a term that covers an enormous amount of territory and is intrinsically cross-disciplinary, connect

[img_assist|nid=249|title=|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=140|height=103]Ontologies and what they are not

Virtual Research Environments (VREs) are infrastructural frameworks which bring together distributed tools and resources for a specific purpose, or for a specific group of users. This is a logical response to a number of developments in research practice over the last few years: the exponential increase in online (or potentially online) digital material, a shift to formal collaborative research on a larger scale, and the increased availability of online tools for manipulating and exploring datasets.