Marie Gibbs, who worked with the Maths Team on InterActive, is now involved with further developments in using video for research.
The MixedMediaGrid (MiMeG) project is one of seven nodes set up by NCeSS, the National Centre for e-Social Science. The idea is to stimulate the uptake and use of emerging e-science technologies within the social sciences.
MiMeg’s aim is to generate tools and techniques to enable and enhance the collaborative analysis of qualitative video data using grid technologies. For example to work on ways that make it possible and productive for people in different places to look at the same video data at the same time and collaborate in the analysis from different (or the same) theoretical perspectives.
The focus on collaborative research combined with analysis of video data builds on the success of the InterActive Project. In particular it uses the experience gained in InterActive (and subsequent projects) to combine, adapt and extend features of software such as Studiocode and VidGrid. In this way the learning and research capacity generated in InterActive and its associated projects is sustained and developed.
A further important feature of MiMeg is in building capacity across the social sciences: the consortium has a key role in deploying, disseminating, and working with a range of social science programmes to promote understanding and use of e-research technologies.
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