2009 International Conference on e-Social Science

Wednesday 24 June /2009/

Tutorials and Workshops

 9.30-17:00

Tutorial 1: Grid-enabling Social Simulations: an example using the Repast toolkit Session

Session Chair: Alex Voss

 9.30-17:00

Tutorial 2: Scientific and statistical computing in the cloud; introducing the Biocep platform for statistical computing

Session Chair: Karim Chine

 9.30-13:00

Workshop 1: Web analysis of politics, online ideas, discussions and trends

Session Chairs: Ganaele Langlois and Greg Elmer

 9.30-13:00

Workshop 2: Law, Ethics and e-Social Science

Session Chair: Annamaria Carusi

 9.30-13:00

Workshop 3: Scientific Writing and New Patterns of Scientific Communication

Session Chairs: Julian Newman and Esther Breuer

 9.30-13:00

Workshop 4: Cross-nationally comparative social survey research

Session Chair: Paul Lambert

14:00-17:30

Workshop 5: Computer workshop: Software to aid politics and social science web research

Session Chair: Mike Thelwall

14:00-17:30

Workshop 6: Imagining, Identifying, and Investigating e-Research: An Extended Exploration

Session Chair: Nick Jankowski

14:00-17:30

Workshop 7: Constructing and interrogating corpora using heterogeneous datasets

Session Chair: Dawn Knight

14:00-17:30

Workshop 8: Coding the Blogosphere: Introducing the Coding and Blog Analysis Toolkits

Session Chair: Stuart Shulman

17:30

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Thursday 25 June /2009/
08:45 Welcome:  Peter Halfpenny, Executive Director, NCeSS
09:00

Keynote 1:  Mario Campolargo
e-Infrastructures and e-Social Science

10:00   Session 1a:  e-Infrastructure developments I Session 2a:  Understanding behaviour in virtual environments
Supporting security oriented, inter-disciplinary research: Crossing the social, clinical and geospatial domains
Richard O. Sinnott, Thomas Doherty, Chris Higgins, Paul S. Lambert, Susan McCafferty, Anthony J. Stell, Larry Tan, Kenneth J. Turner and John P. Watt
Application of the LifeGuide: The development and quantitative analysis of the 'Internet Docter'
Judith Joseph, Lucy Yardley, Jonathan Hare, Adrian Osmond, Mark Weal, Garry Wills and Susan Michie
Application of the LifeGuide:  Think-aloud study of users' experiences of the 'Internet Docter'
Leanne Georgette Morrison, Judith Joseph, Panayiota Andreou and Lucy Yardley
Architectural design patterns for security oriented workflows in the social science domain
Richard Sinnott and Sardar Hussain
Lifestyle measurement in virtual worlds: An empirical feasibility study within the environment of 'Second Life'
Daniel Witte and Andreas Muchlichen
11:00  Coffee Break
11:30 Session 1b:  Collaboratories Session 2b:  Innovations in survey research
Issues for the sharing and re-use of scientific workflows Rob Procter, Meik Poschen, Yuwei Lin, Carole Goble and Dave De Roure Crowd Source data for the social sciences: Web based services and real-time geographic surveys
Andrew Hudson-Smith, Richard Milton, Andrew Crooks and Mike Batty
Uncovering collaboratories in Social and Economic history
Stefan Dormans
Comparing 'Comparative survey data'
Richard Topf
Obesity e-Lab: Connecting social science via research objects
Iain Buchan, Shoaib Sufi, Ian Dunlop, Urara Hiroeh, Dexter Canoy, John Ainsworth, Angela Dale and Carole Goble
Spain's e-Infrastructure facilities: ASEP / JDS Data Bank
Juan Diez-Nicolas and Jaime Diez-Medrano
13:00  Lunch
14:00 Keynote 2: Ian Foster
CIM-Earth:  A Community Integrated Model of Energy and Resources Trajectories for Humankind
15:00 Session 1c: e-Infrastructure Developments II Session 2c:  Social Shaping of e-Infrastructure I
Spatial Data e-Infrastructure
Christopher I Higgins, Michael Koutroumpas, Richard O. Sinnott, John Watt, Thomas Doherty, Ally C. Hume, Andrew G D. Turner and David Rawnsley
The Future of e-Research Infrastructures
Ralph Schroeder. Eric T. Meyer, Kathryn Eccles, Zack Kertcher, Franz Barjak, Tobias Huesing and Simon Robinson
Secure Data Service: specifications and challenges of using  potentially disclosive data
Reza Afkhami, Melanie Wright, Mus Ahmet
The social shaping and implications of research-centred computational networks: A synthesis of cases
Bill Dutton
 
Internet proxy technology for securing a satellite image service (SIDS)
Pascal Ekin and Gail R. Millin
16:00  Coffee Break
16:30 Session 1d:  Impacts of Digitisation of Resources in the Humanities Session 2d: Social Shaping of e-Infrastructure II
Controversial digitisation: trying to transform a scholarly field by reorganising its instruments
Paul Wouters and Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner
Challenges in the development of digital data infrastructures
Andre Somers Edwin Horlings, Anouschka Versleijen, Floorrtje Daemen and Peter van den Besselaar
Digitisation as e-Research Infrastructure: Access to materials and research capabilities in the Humanities
Kathryn Eccles, Eric T. Meyer and Christine Madsen
What about Sea Urchins?:  Collaborative ontology building among Bio Informaticians
Dave Randall, Robert Stevens, Wes Sharrock, Rob Procter, Yuwei Lin and Meik Poschen
From source to resource: the London Gazette, e-research and the UK government, past and present
David Simon Magee
Next generation Researchers: Doctoral students in Social Sciences and Humanities in Sweden and their attitudes towards open access, open repositories and e-Research
Ann-Sofie Axelsson and Carina Carlhead
 17:30  Close 
 19:00  Conference Dinner

 

Friday 26 June /2009/
 09:00 Keynote 3:  David Theo Goldberg
Networking Knowledge 
 10:00 Session 3a:  Methods and tools for media content analysis Session 4a:  Data integration and management
Analysis of the YouTube videos used by the activists of the Uyghur nationalist movement: theoretical and methodological issues
Matteo Vergani and Dennis Zuev
Standards setting when standardising categorical data
Paul S. Lambert, Vernon Gayle, Alison Bowes, Jesse Blum, Simon Jones, Larry Tan, Kenneth Turber and Guy Warner
Supporting frame analysis using Text Mining
Sophia Ananiadou, Davy Weissenbacher, Brian Rea, Elisa Pieri, Farida Vis, Yuwei Lin, Rob Procter and Peter Halfpenny 
QDDS - Documenting survey questionnaires throughout their lifecycle
Oliver Hopt and Maximillian Stempfhuber
Performance evaluation of the Structured Population Event History Register (SPEHR) Relational Schema for Managing Longitudinal Health and Population Data
Benjamin D. Clark and Samuel J. Clark
 11:00  Coffee Break
 11:30  Session 3b: Data Integration  Session 4b: Mapping adoption of e-Research
How to make the unpublishable public: The approach of the CESSDA Survey Data Harmonisation Platform
Markus Quandt, Alex Agache and Martin Friedrichs
Mapping Global e-Research: Scientometrics and Webometrics
Eric T. Meyer, Han Woo Park and Ralph Schroeder
DISS:  A new data infrastructure for e-Social Science in the Netherlands
Peter Doorn and Kees Aarts
Social Scientists and the domestication of e-Research tools
Dimitrina Dimova Spencer and Ralph Schroeder
Modelling Text-Fact-Integration in Digital Libraries
Benjamin Zapilko and Maximilian Stempfhuber
Adoption of e-Infrastructure Services: findings, issues and opportunities
Alex Voss, Marzieh Asgari-Targhi, Rob Procter, Peter Halfpenny, Elpiniki Fragkouli, Sheila Anderson, Lorna Hughes, David Fergusson,
Elizabeth van der Meer and Malcolm Atkinson

 
e-Infrastructure for Comparative Social Research: From implementation to evaluation of the ZACAT Data Portal
Ekkehard Mochmann, Reiner Mauer and Wolfgang Zenk-Moeltgen
 13:00 Lunch
 14:00 Panel 1
 15:00  Session 3c:  Ethics and e-Research Session 4c: Social Shaping of e-Infrastructure III
Ethical Implications of using lifestyle monitoring data in ageing research
Alison Bowes, Alison Dawson and David Bell

Careers for collaboration: Analysing artists' design and use of experimental information and communication technologies using career biographies
Frederik Francois Lesage

Rethinking research ethics for mediated settings
Anne Beaulieu and Adolfo Estalella

Distributed large-scale systems development: Exploring the collaborative development of the particle physics Grid
Avgousta Kyriakidou and Will Venters

Trying to see the bigger picture: a review of the opportunities for linking eHealth and social Science datasets to enhance understanding of risk in suicide in Scotland
Alison Dawson and Margaret Maxwell

Grids Knowledge Infrastructure: A case study of the LCG Computing Grid at CERN through a practice lens
Will Venters, Tony Cornford, Avgousta Kyriakidou and Yingquin Zheng

 16:00 Session 3d: Tools for understanding individual behaviour 

A Data Warehouse approach to Public Safety Monitoring
Diederick W. de Vries, Sunil Choenni and Erik Leertouwer

Computational Support for Policy Arguments
Alison Chorley, Peter Edwards and Lorna Philip

Designing authoring tools for the creation of online behavioural interventions
Adrian Osmond, Jonathon Hare, Joe Price, Ashley Smith, Mark Weal, Gary WIlls, Yang Yang, Lucy Yardley and David De Roure

An Educational Tool for Agent-Based Simulations Based on Model Templates
Ludovit Hajzet, Zdeno Osina, Laszlo Gulyas and Ladislav Samuelis
 16:45

Closing Comments

 17:00 Close 
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