There is an active research community in the UK termed ‘e-science’. It has only been around for about 6 years (talk about emerging fields) and has already developed a pretty impressive portfolio of projects. E-science’s main goal is promote technologies and applications that work on the UK’s research grid (which is a high-speed and high-capacity national network to share resources and computational power). One example of the work of e-science is the Digital Curation Centre that provides techniques to manage the digital research output of scientists in the UK and internationally.
Where I work at the Arts and Humanities Data Service (ADHS) at King’s College in London, the Arts and Humanities e-science support centre seeks to promote e-science and the use of grid technologies in the Arts and Humanities. One such application are VREs or ‘Virtual Research Environments’ that assist Humanities researchers with online collaboration tasks. The centre also provides training and seminars (and other activities) to promote the use of the grid.
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