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World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities, by William H. Dutton and Paul W. Jeffreys, eds

World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities, by William H. Dutton and Paul W.... Information Polity 15 (2010) 327–331 DOI 10.3233/IP-2010-0219 IOS Press World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities. William H. Dutton & Paul W. Jeffreys [eds.]. Cambridge, MA; London: MIT Press, 2010. The aim of this edited book is to convey the benefits, challenges, opportunities, and risks that enable 21st century science and the humanities to make discoveries that advance scientific knowledge in a new computational world. Its editors and the fifty-four other contributors of this thirty-nine chapter volume set out to help us understand the complex social (institutional) and technical environment of ‘e-research’, several decades ago labeled ‘Big Science’ and now known by various names such as ‘e-science’, ‘e-infrastructure’, ‘cyberinfrastructure’, ‘grid computing’, ‘grid-enabled research’, ‘virtual research environment’, ‘collaboratories’, and ‘research-centered computational networks’. Its editors tell us that this volume is a “wide-angle lens snapshot of the evolution of e-research about a decade after this phenomenon first emerged” (p. 344), its emergence resulting from funding decisions by government research agency policy makers in the United Kingdom and United States between the latter part of the 1980s and early 21st century. The book is to “serve as a roadmap charted at a particular point in the progress of e-research, with http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Information Polity IOS Press

World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities, by William H. Dutton and Paul W. Jeffreys, eds

Information Polity , Volume 15 (4) – Jan 1, 2010
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Information Polity 15 (2010) 327–331 DOI 10.3233/IP-2010-0219 IOS Press World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities. William H. Dutton & Paul W. Jeffreys [eds.]. Cambridge, MA; London: MIT Press, 2010. The aim of this edited book is to convey the benefits, challenges, opportunities, and risks that enable 21st century science and the humanities to make discoveries that advance scientific knowledge in a new computational world. Its editors and the fifty-four other contributors of this thirty-nine chapter volume set out to help us understand the complex social (institutional) and technical environment of ‘e-research’, several decades ago labeled ‘Big Science’ and now known by various names such as ‘e-science’, ‘e-infrastructure’, ‘cyberinfrastructure’, ‘grid computing’, ‘grid-enabled research’, ‘virtual research environment’, ‘collaboratories’, and ‘research-centered computational networks’. Its editors tell us that this volume is a “wide-angle lens snapshot of the evolution of e-research about a decade after this phenomenon first emerged” (p. 344), its emergence resulting from funding decisions by government research agency policy makers in the United Kingdom and United States between the latter part of the 1980s and early 21st century. The book is to “serve as a roadmap charted at a particular point in the progress of e-research, with

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