Highlights
Overview
The UK National e-Science Centre defines e-science as “the large scale science that will increasingly be carried out through distributed global collaborations enabled by the Internet. Typically, a feature of such collaborative scientific enterprises is that they will require access to very large data collections, very large-scale computing resources and high-performance visualization back to the individual user scientists.” E-science is defined broadly to include all of the natural and physical sciences, related applied and technological disciplines, as well as biomedicine and social sciences sharing research approaches with the natural sciences.
Reports and Articles
Events
Reinventing Science Librarianship, an ARL/CNI Forum, October 16–17, 2008, Arlington, Virginia
New Collaborative Relationships: The Role of Academic Libraries in the Digital Data Universe, Arlington, Virginia, September 26–27, 2006
E-Research and Supporting Cyberinfrastructure: A Forum to Consider Implications for Research Libraries & Research Institutions, Oct. 2004
Other Resources
Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, Gateway to Scientific Data, 2009
National Science and Technology Council, Harnessing the Power of Digital Data for Science and Society, 2009 [PDF]
Research Data Strategy Working Group, Stewardship of Research Data in Canada: A Gap Analysis, 2009 [PDF]
National Science Foundation, Beyond Being There: A Blueprint for Advancing the Design, Development, and Evaluation of Virtual Organizations, 2008 [PDF]
National Science Board, Long-Lived Digital Data Collections Enabling Research and Education in the 21st Century, 2005
Canadian National Consultation on Access to Scientific Research Data, 2005
Cyberinfrastructure for Education and Learning for the Future: A Vision and Research Agenda, 2005 [PDF]
Towards 2020 Science (Microsoft Research, 2006) [PDF]