SHERPA
Scientific Area: Arts & Humanities.
EXPR: Archaeology-General language studies–Arts, Art history-Cognition & behavioral studies.
Name of the service: SHERPA.
Main responsible: Valérie Pichon, research engineer, SHERPA facility manager.
Category of the service: Technological service.
Target group: Academic research, industrial R&D projects.
Scientific refence:
The SHERPA platform supports the programmes developed by the MSHE Ledoux (UAR3124, FED 4209) and the research projects of its 16 federated laboratories in Franche-Comté. SHERPA’s aim is to encourage the pooling of scientific equipment and digital services needed to structure joint actions between teams in the human, social and environmental sciences, to enable researchers to acquire, process and analyse data in the best possible conditions, and to contribute to the development of new methods within an interdisciplinary framework. SHERPA brings together specialist skills and equipment. In practical terms, this means – Providing specific, shared instrumentation for research in the Humanities in the broadest sense (Social Sciences, Art and Humanities), combined with engineering skills. – Research training through research – Methodological development thanks to high-level engineering skills. SHERPA relies on an IT infrastructure that provides the scientific community with significant computing and storage capacity, and hosts several databases: Paleofire Sidarta, PGISData, Fanum, ORTEP Revitalisation, etc. SHERPA also supports its federated research units in the open science approach and in each step of the information lifecycle management (from data acquisition to dissemination and valorisation). It is supported by three instrumental facilities and their engineering skills. Sherpa has been accredited as a uFC technology platform since 2020, and relies on 3 instrumental units: GeoBFC (CNRS accredited since 2012, RnMSH Spatio accredited); NuAnces (RnMSH Scripto accredited); ESCCo (RnMSH Cogito accredited). Finally, SHERPA contributes to many research networks at a regional and national scale: MASA+ (archaeology), Consortium 3D-SHS (3D data applied to human and social sciences), Dat@UBFC (open data in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté), Drone & Cap (UAV and sensors), Cahier (corpus for digital humanities), CORLI (languages and interactions), etc.
Offer description:
SHERPA services are available to UFC/UBFC master’s students, doctoral students, engineers, researchers and teacher-researchers contributing to research actions hosted by MSHE, and also to people from partner research institutes. In addition to the activities handled by the 3 instrumental units and described below, SHERPA provides a wide range of training courses aimed at students and researchers. GeoBFC (Geomatics in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region) is jointly developed by the MSHE Ledoux and the MSH Dijon. GeoBFC-Besançon provides its users with equipment and skills covering the entire spatial information processing chain (2D and 3D), from the acquisition of data in the field, through the hosting and provision of data on its Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), to the processing and analysis of the results obtained. It also contributes to the development of methodological protocols, tools and applications. NuAnCES (Numérisation et Analyse de Corpus pour la rEcherche Scientifique) is dedicated to the 2D digitisation, preservation, provision and exploitation (particularly statistical) of textual corpora and multimedia archives. NuAnCES offers methodological support to scientists from different fields and disciplines (linguistics, literature, discourse analysis, history, geography, information-communication, performing arts, sociology, philosophy) and makes its equipment, software solutions, storage and workspaces available to them. The aim of ESCCo (Expérimentations pour les Sciences du Comportement et de la Cognition) is to enable researchers to identify and understand the processes and mechanisms underlying behaviour by collecting a wide variety of behavioural and psychophysiological responses. To do so it provides workspaces for experimentation as well as fine measurement tools (eye trackers, electroencephalograms, etc.).
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