Information and communication technology has become an integral part of the professional routine of most researchers. In many scientific fields, ICT has stimulated new forms of research. The term e-Science is often used (primarily in the UK) to indicate science increasingly done through distributed global collaborations enabled by the Internet, using very large data collections, tera-scale computing resources and high performance visualisation.' The social sciences have adopted the 'E' as well, again above all in the UK, where a National Centre for eSocial Science (NCeSS) has been formed. E-social science aims to stimulate the uptake and use by social scientists of new and emerging grid-enabled computing and data infrastructure, both in quantitative and qualitative research. The term E-Humanities can also be found, but is much less common.rnHumanists have used computers since the 1950s, but until the 1980s usage could be described as occasional (Feeney and Ross, 1993). It is clear from the literature and on-line resources that, especially since the 1980s, computing has pervaded every conceivable field of the humanities, although in some areas the role of computers has become more important than in others.
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