19.169 recognized disciplines (and computing)

               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 19, No. 169.
       Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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   [1] From: "Stuart Dunn" <s.e.dunn_at_reading.ac.uk> (63)
         Subject: RE: 19.167 recognized disciplines (and computing)?

   [2] From: "Clai Rice" <cxr1086_at_louisiana.edu> (7)
         Subject: RE: 19.167 recognized disciplines (and computing)?

   [3] From: "Reto Speck" <reto.speck_at_ahds.ac.uk> (11)
         Subject: RE: 19.167 recognized disciplines (and computing)?

   [4] From: Andrew Brook <abrook_at_ccs.carleton.ca> (21)
         Subject: Re: 19.167 recognized disciplines (and computing)?

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         Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 09:38:35 +0100
         From: "Stuart Dunn" <s.e.dunn_at_reading.ac.uk>
         Subject: RE: 19.167 recognized disciplines (and computing)?

Dear Willard,

Try

http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/about/subject_coverage/research_subject_coverage.a
sp

All best,
Stuart

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                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 19, No. 167.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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           Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:53:43 +0100
           From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
           Subject: computing & recognized disciplines?

I would appreciate help in finding published lists of disciplines and
disciplinary areas that are used by funding agencies, governmental or
private, in evaluating grant applications, measuring the performance
of higher education institutions and the like. The kind of thing I
have in mind is illustrated by the following:

(1) the "Units of Assessment" for the U.K. Research Assessment
Exercise (RAE 03 2005: 35-6), online at
http://www.rae.ac.uk/pubs/2005/03/;
(2) the "Research Fields, Courses and Disciplines Classification" for
the Australian Research Council,
<http://www.arc.gov.au/htm/RFCD_codes.htm>www.arc.gov.au/htm/RFCD_codes.
htm.

I am interested in seeing how a project or department with its
primary focus in humanities computing itself might be judged, by whom
with what sort of disciplinary backgrounds. There are actually very
few possibilities for an even remotely close fit -- library and
information science being the nearest one I'm aware of. I am not
expecting any guidance on what field(s) might approximate humanities
computing, though official word on that would be welcome. Rather it
is the fact of discrete lists of recognized areas of study that I am
interested in bringing into focus.

URLs for online documentation from any anglophone institution or
agency anywhere in the world would be welcome.

Many thanks for any help.

Yours,
WM

Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the
Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street |
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         Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 09:39:10 +0100
         From: "Clai Rice" <cxr1086_at_louisiana.edu>
         Subject: RE: 19.167 recognized disciplines (and computing)?

In response to Willard's request for taxonomies of disciplines, here is
the URL of a copy of the Louisiana State Board of Regents taxonomy. This
information is also available in PDF form from the LA Regents website.

http://www.som.tulane.edu/researchadmin/borsf-taxonomy.htm

In Louisiana humanities computing, like linguistics, would probably be
in "Humanities--Other"

--Clai Rice

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         Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 09:40:41 +0100
         From: "Reto Speck" <reto.speck_at_ahds.ac.uk>
         Subject: RE: 19.167 recognized disciplines (and computing)?

Dear Willard,
The Arts and Humanities Research Council's list of subject panels and
subject areas may be useful. Both are contained in the AHRC research grant
application form (http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/ahrb/website/images/4_96220.pdf).
Best wishes,
Reto Speck
Arts and Humanities Data Service
King's College London
Tel. 020 7848 1974

[The pdf file referenced in the above is reported to be broken and
beyond repair. --WM]

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         Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 09:41:15 +0100
         From: Andrew Brook <abrook_at_ccs.carleton.ca>
         Subject: Re: 19.167 recognized disciplines (and computing)?

Williard,

The Social Science and Humanities (www.sshrc.ca) and Natural Science
and Engineering (www.nserc.ca) granting councils of Canada divide
their assessment process over a number of peer committee by
discipline. The list of committees and therefore disciplinary
headings is readily available on their sites (some committees assess
more than one discipline). SSHRC is behind NSERC in updating the
classification, having no place for cognitive science, for example.
(Well, they do have a place, interdisciplinary applications, but that
is a grab-bag of everything that does not fit under one of the
disciplinary heads and results in assessments that are erratic and arbitrary.)

Andrew

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