Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Illinois Center for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science: The Illinois Center for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science was established to support sustained interdisciplinary collaboration among humanists, artists, social scientists, engineers, computer scientists, and high-performance computing specialists.

M2K: Music-to-Knowledge (M2K) is a key element of the IMIRSEL (International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory) project. IMIRSEL provides an unprecedented platform for evaluating music information retrieval (MIR) and music digital library (MDL) techniques by bringing together large corpora and significant computational resources with the necessary rights management and technical infrastructure to support a variety of MIR/MDL research areas. D2K is the foundation to the IMIRSEL communities. M2K represents the music-specific set of D2K modules designed to create a virtual research lab (VRL) for MIR/MDL development, prototyping and evaluation. MIR/MDL researchers will use the VRLs so they can participate in future MIREX (Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange) contests.

MONK: MONK, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will develop an architecture for text mining a very large datastore (or set of such datastores). In addition to NCSA, there are project participants at the Northwestern University, University of Illinois, University of Maryland, University of Georgia, University of Nebraska, University of Virginia, and University of Alberta.

NORA: The NORA project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, aims to produce software for discovering, visualizing, and exploring significant patterns across large collections of full-text humanities resources in existing digital libraries. The project builds on NCSA's D2K software and includes partners from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois and the University of Georgia, the University of Maryland, and the University of Virginia.

SEASR: The Software Environment for the Advancement of Scholarly Research (SEASR), funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will make a leading contribution to a cyberinfrastructure for the humanities by providing an open-source, state-of-the-art software environment that: helps scholars more readily access large data stores; provides scholars with enhanced data synthesis and query analysis­from focused data retrieval and data integration, to intelligent human-computer interactions for knowledge access, to semantic data enrichment, to entity and relationship discovery, to knowledge discovery and hypothesis generation; and empowers scholars to collaborate by enhancing and innovating virtual research environments.