[okfn-coord] [Fwd: NCeSS Fourth International Conference on e-Social Science]

Sat Dec 8 02:02:45 UTC 2007

For the record - very non-urgent, but I wonder whether we might be able 
to put something together for this?

Particularly regarding:

   "Enabling new sources and forms of sociological data through e-Social
Science, including ethical issues and challenges in the collection,
integration, sharing and analysis of sociological and other personal data"

Deadline is January 25th.

J.

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Subject: NCeSS Fourth International Conference on e-Social Science
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:47:27 +0000
From: Katy Middlebrough <katy.middlebrough at NCESS.AC.UK>
Reply-To: Katy Middlebrough <katy.middlebrough at NCESS.AC.UK>
To: CETIS-METADATA at JISCMAIL.AC.UK

4th International Conference on e-Social Science
Manchester, June 18th-20th, 2008

Initial Announcement and Call for Submissions

The aim of the conference on e-Social Science is to bring together leading
international representatives of the social science, e-Infrastructure/
cyberinfrastructure and e-Research communities in order to improve mutual
awareness, harmonize understanding and instigate coordinated activities to
accelerate research, development and deployment of powerful, new research
methods and tools for the social sciences and beyond.

We invite contributions from members of the social science,
e-Infrastructure/cyberinfrastructure and e-Research communities with
experience of, or interests in: 1) exploring, developing, and applying new
methods, practices, and tools afforded by new infrastructure technologies -
such as the Grid and Web 2.0 - in order to further social science research;
and 2) studying issues impacting on the wider take-up of e-Research.

Submission categories include: full and short papers, posters, demos,
workshops, tutorials and panels.

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following:
* Case studies of the application of e-Social Science research methods to
substantive social science problems

* Advances in tools and techniques for quantitative and qualitative e-Social
Science, including statistical analysis, simulation, data mining, text
mining, social network analysis and collaborative environments

* Enabling new sources and forms of sociological data through e-Social
Science, including ethical issues and challenges in the collection,
integration, sharing and analysis of sociological and other personal data

*The e-Research technical roadmap, including grids, web 2.0 and their future
(co-evolution)

Important Deadlines:

Paper abstracts: January 25th, 2008.

Workshop, tutorial and panel outlines: February 22nd, 2008.

Poster and demo abstracts: March 21st, 2008.

Submission instructions will appear on the conference web site in December.

Authors will be informed of the programme committee’s decision in early
March, 2008.

For full details of this call, including a full list of topics of interest
and submission instructions, please visit
http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/conference/call/