2. Enabling research: the big picture context for EA
In October 2007 King’s established the Centre for e-Research (CeRch), which was created from the Executive part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS1) that had been hosted at KCL since 1995. The AHDS was a national service, funded jointly by JISC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and was responsible for managing, preserving and delivering digital research outputs from researchers in the arts and humanities across the UK. In particular, this included outputs from AHRC-funded projects (which were mandated to deposit their digital