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Monday, November 17, 2008
The Institutional Challenges of Cyberinfrastructure and E-Research - Clifford Lynch, EDUCAUSE REVIEW
Scholarly practices across an astoundingly wide range of disciplines have become profoundly and irrevocably changed by the application of advanced information technology. This collection of new and emergent scholarly practices was first widely recognized in the science and engineering disciplines. In the late 1990s, the term e-science (or occasionally, particularly in Asia, cyber-science) began to be used as a shorthand for these new methods and approaches. The United Kingdom launched its formal e-science program in 2001.1 In the United States, a multi-year inquiry, having its roots in supercomputing support for the portfolio of science and engineering disciplines funded by the National Science Foundation, culminated in the production of the “Atkins Report” in 2003, though there was considerable delay before NSF began to act programmatically on the report.2 The quantitative social sciences—which are largely part of NSF’s funding purview and which have long traditions of data curation and sharing, as well as the use of high-end statistical computation—received more detailed examination in a 2005 NSF report.3
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