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