Registration is now open for the above event with 'early bird'
registration available until the 21'st of May and reduced rates for
students.
This conference examines the impact of e-science or cyberinfrastructure
on social science research and the social implications of this new
technology. Topics to be discussed at the conference include:
Case studies of e-Social Science research methods and applications
Enabling new sources and forms of sociological data through e-Social
Science
Infrastructure and tools for e-Social Science
Middleware for data collection, sharing and integration
Standards for metadata, ontologies, annotation, curation, etc.
Usability issues in the design of research tools and middleware
Case studies of (e-)Research and (e-) Social Science research practices
The benefits and challenges of large scale collaborative research
Interdisciplinary research and e-Social Science
International collaborations in e-Social Science
Socio-technical issues in the development of e-Research and the Grid
Ethical issues and challenges in the collection, integration, sharing
and analysis of sociological and other personal data
The conference consists of 7 one day workshops on the following topics:
Social Science Perspectives on e-Science
e-Science and Digitisation: Methodological Infrastructure in the Arts
and Humanities
e-Government
e-Collaboration Workshop - Access Grid, Portals and other Virtual
Research Environments for the Social Sciences
A Semantic Grid for Social Science
New Tools and Techniques for Qualitative Research: Exploring the
Challenges and Pitfalls
User Requirements for Visualization in e-Social Science
There are also 37 papers, 3 keynotes and 3 panel sessions over 2 days.
Full details can be found at
http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/conference/
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