摘要：In the UK, most definitions of e-Science begin with that posited in 2000 by Sir John Taylor, then Director General of Research Councils, with the launch of the e-Science Core Programme: "e-Science is about global collaboration in key areas of science, and the next generation of infrastructure that will enable it." Concurrently, in the US, similar concepts describing computational mechanisms for dealing with "big data" from "big science" have attracted the term "cyberinfrastructure". The resulting definition of e-Science is generally well understood in the communities concerned with it, even if they also considered it somewhat artificial and "top-down". However, it was not until 2005, when the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) launched the Arts and Humanities e-Science Initiative, that a truly domain-specific focus emerged. This background included a major AHRC-funded report, the Arts and Humanities e-Science Scoping Survey , which, having conducted detailed research across seven arts and humanities subject domains, defined e-Science as "the development and deployment of a networked infrastructure and culture through which resources — be they processing power, data, expertise, or person power can be shared in a secure environment, in which new forms of collaboration can emerge, and new and advanced methodologies explored" [ Anderson 2007 ]. The arts and humanities e-Science Initiative is deploying a range of activities, and a highly targeted two-stage funding programme, to explore what might be meant by "Arts and Humanities e-Science". This special cluster for DHQ attempts to further that exploration.
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