E-Science

e-Science = "term embracing many of the features commonly associated with how scholarship is conducted in a network environment, utilizing Internet-based tools and involving collaboration among scholars often separated by large distances on a global scale." (http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue2/jankowski.html)

Characteristics

From the background introduction to a special issue on e-Science, at http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue2/jankowski.html

"These features include:

1. International collaboration among researchers (Scientific Collaboratories;

2. Increasing use of high-speed interconnected computers, applying Grid Computing architecture;

3. Visualization of data;

4. Development of Internet-based tools and procedures;

5. Construction of virtual organizational structures for conducting research;

6. Electronic distribution and publication of findings." (http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue2/jankowski.html)

More Information

See our entry on Scientific Collaboratories

Introduction to JCMC special issue on e-Science, at http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue2/jankowski.html

Special issue accessible through http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue2/

The landmark "Atkins Report": Atkins, D. E., Droegemeier, K. K., Feldman, S. I., Garcia-Molina, H., Klein, M. L., & Messina, P. (2003). Revolutionizing Science and Engineering through Cyberinfrastructure: Report of the National Science Foundation Blue-Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure. Washington, DC: National Science Foundation. Retrieved November 13, 2006 from www.nsf.gov/cise/sci/reports/atkins.pdf

Wilson, T. D. (2004). Review of: Nentwich, M. Cyberscience: Research in the Age of the Internet. Information Research, 9 (3). Retrieved November 13, 2006 from http://informationr.net/ir/reviews/revs130.html