The Exploitation of Switched Lightpaths for e-Science Applications (ESLEA) project is evaluating the feasibility of using switched lightpath networks to support various e-Science applications. This feasibility is being investigated via case studies, one of which pertains to the use of such networks to support distributed healthcare research and delivery. We consider some of the constraints and ...

Digital heritage technologies are radically changing the way we engage with material culture and are negotiating new ways of knowing and understanding the object. Realising the importance of digital technologies and new interdisciplinary possibilities, the E-curator project has been undertaken by UCL Museums and Collections with the goal of applying two state of the art digital technologies: 3D...

There is a need to understand the cultural issues affecting security in large, distributed and heterogeneous systems; such systems are typified by e-Science projects. We present a model of security culture for e-Science, grounded both in the security literature and in empirical data from an e-Science project. From this model, we present five concepts, which have differing effects on security cu...

Aktuelle Forschungsaktivitäten im Bereich der Datenstromverarbeitungssysteme untermauern die zunehmende Bedeutung von Datenströmen, etwa im Kontext von Sensornetzwerken und im Bereich e-Science. Mit der zunehmenden weltweiten Vernetzung experimentell arbeitender Wissenschaftler ist die Entwicklung von Datenstrom-ManagementSystemen (DSMS) zur Informationsgewinnung aus im Netz veröffentlichten Me...

This paper previews the imminent flood of scientific data expected from the next generation of experiments, simulations, sensors and satellites. In order to be exploited by search engines and data mining software tools, such experimental data needs to be annotated with relevant metadata giving information as to provenance, content, conditions and so on. The case for automating the process of go...

In this paper, we introduce InfoGrid, a data integration, middleware engine, designed to operate under a Grid framework. InfoGrid provides dynamic information access and integration services to a variety of semi-structured web-based data sources. It also provides users with a query system that retains their familiarity with their specific scientific applications, while allowing them to dynamica...

In this paper, we use the experience of the first 5 years of the UK Economic and Social Research Council's National Centre for e-Social Science as a basis for reflecting upon the future development of the e-Social Science research agenda.