eScience: Building our Body of Knowledge

This paper describes the need for an eScience BoK, particularly as a resource for educators. eScience is a term representing the computational technology and techniques utilised when undertaking research. As eScience matures, stakeholders, and particularly educators, can benefit from the clarity that a defined Body of Knowledge (BOK) can provide. The BOK would require domain-specific and technological aspects to be addressed. This paper describes a framework for a prototype BOK for eScience and discusses how the BOK can be used as a tool to drive education, outreach and infrastructure planning