The Arts and Humanities e-Science Initiative in the UK

This paper presents the approaches within the Arts and Humanities e-Science Initiative in the UK. It describes some of its early activities, and sketches out how virtual organizations can transform the way in which researchers in these disciplines can collaborate in the use of digital material. The paper is an attempt to position the specific research needs of arts and humanities within the e-Science framework and to show how the early arts and humanities e- Science programme is approaching a mapping of e-Science methods and tools on to arts and humanities.