E-research
Encyclopedia
The term e-Research refers to the use of information technology
to support existing and new forms of research. E-research extends e-Science
and cyberinfrastructure
to other disciplines, including the humanities and social sciences.
Examples of e-Research problems range across disciplines and include:
The main features of e-Research are that it:
E-Research includes research activities that use a spectrum of advanced information and communication technology (ICT) capabilities. It embraces new research methodologies emerging from increasing access to:
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
to support existing and new forms of research. E-research extends e-Science
E-Science
E-Science is computationally intensive science that is carried out in highly distributed network environments, or science that uses immense data sets that require grid computing; the term sometimes includes technologies that enable distributed collaboration, such as the Access Grid...
and cyberinfrastructure
Cyberinfrastructure
United States federal research funders use the term cyberinfrastructure to describe research environments that support advanced data acquisition, data storage, data management, data integration, data mining, data visualization and other computing and information processing services distributed over...
to other disciplines, including the humanities and social sciences.
Examples of e-Research problems range across disciplines and include:
- modelling of ecosystems or economies
- exploration of human genome structures
- studies of large linguistic corpuses
- integrated social policy analyses
The main features of e-Research are that it:
- is collaborative
- uses grid computingGrid computingGrid computing is a term referring to the combination of computer resources from multiple administrative domains to reach a common goal. The grid can be thought of as a distributed system with non-interactive workloads that involve a large number of files...
technologies - is data intensive
E-Research includes research activities that use a spectrum of advanced information and communication technology (ICT) capabilities. It embraces new research methodologies emerging from increasing access to:
- Networks
- Services
- Tools
UK
- UK National e-Science Centre
- OMII-UK
- Oxford e-Research Centre
- Manchester eResearch Centre at The University of Manchester
- Centre for e-Research, King's College London