Extending e-Science to the arts and humanities

JISC and two of the UK Research Councils --the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)-- are extending the UK's e-Science program to the arts and humanities. From today's call for grant proposals:

Grants will be awarded up to a total value of £2m, plus up to six 4-year postgraduate studentships.

This is the main part of a joint initiative of the three funders which extends the national e-Science programme to arts and humanities research. A scoping survey, nine workshops and demonstrators, and an Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre have already been funded.

e-Science stands for a specific set of advanced technologies for collaboration and sharing resources across the Internet: so-called grid technologies, and technologies integrated with them, for instance for authentication, data-mining and visualization.

'This is an important new initiative by the three key players in the field,' says David Robey, Director of the AHRC's ICT Programme. 'e-Science has already had a transforming impact on U.K. science, technology, and medicine. It is increasingly important for the social sciences, and its impact on the arts and humanities is potentially just as great.'

For further information please go to: e-Science call.