e-Science for the Arts and Humanities: a Discussion Paper

The e-Science programme has arisen because of the increasing pressure in dealing with the escalating volume of data produced by scientists, both in information gathering exercises and through experiments. Scientists are working with computing scientists to find innovative ways of managing and integrating these data volumes, largely funded through what is known as the e-Science programme. The programme is global with funding provided on a national basis. The arguments for the programme are that the data deluge will be impossible to cope with using data management current methodologies.