2008 International Conference on e-Social Science

Programme Overview

Wednesday 18th June, Manchester Conference Centre
09:00 - 17:00	Tutorial 1: Writing Ontologies in the Web Ontology Language (OWL) Session Chair: Georgina Moulton and Robert Stevens
09:00 - 13:00	Tutorial 2: Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks (VOSON) Session Chair: Dr. Robert Ackland
09:00 - 17:00	Tutorial 3: Designing and Sharing Workflows with Taverna and myExperiment Session Chair: Katy Wolstencroft
09:00 - 17:00	Workshop 1: Research 2.0 Session Chair: Dr. Yuwei Lin
09:00 - 13:00	Workshop 2: Text mining and the social sciences Session Chair: Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining, University of Manchester
09:00 - 17:00	Workshop 3: Data management through e-Social Science Session Chair: Paul Lambert
14:00 - 17:00	Workshop 4: Mapping e-Social Science and Community Engagement Session Chair: Alex Voss
09:00 - 17:00	Workshop 5: Agent-Based Modelling for the Spatial-Social Sciences
Social Event
18:30 - 21:00	Drinks Reception and Food, Manchester Museum of Science and Industry

Thursday 19th June, Manchester Conference Centre
09:00	Welcome: Peter Halfpenny
09:05	Keynote 1: Professor Wolfgang Gentzsch, D-Grid, Duke, and RENCI
10:00	Paper Session 1a: Barriers and enablers of e-Infrastructure	Paper Session 2a: Quantitative Methods
	Accelerating Transition to Virtual Research Organization in Social Science (AVROSS): the results of a study for the EC Franz Barjak, University of Applied Sciences NWCH	Dynamic Social Simulation Models Enabled by e-Research Mark Birkin, University of Leeds
	Widening Uptake of e-Infrastructure Services Alex Voss, National Centre for e-Social Science	Some New Grid Enabled Tools for Quatitative e-Social Science Robert Crouchley, Lancaster University
11:00	Coffee Break
11:30	Paper Session 1b: Social shaping of e-Infrastructure	Paper Session 2b: Research tools
	Technology use across a campus: An analysis of the uptake of ICT across faculties within a single University Nick Pearce, Lancaster Univeristy	A Methodological Quest for Studying Interactions in Advanced Video Conferencing Environments Mary Katherine Allan, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
	The World Wide Web of Research and Access to knowledge Eric Meyer, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford	Access Grid Anywhere Tobias Schiebeck, University of Manchester
	The Diffusion of e-Research: The Use and Non-Use of Advances in Information and Communication Technologies Bill Dutton , Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford	e-Social Science for Free/Libre Open Source Software Researchers Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University, US
		Lost in Reality - The Case for Virtual Safe Settings Mustafizur Rahman, University of Oxford
13:00	Lunch
13:00	Poster Session 1
	ENGAGE: Engaging Research with e-Infrastructure Neil Philippe Chue Hong and Christopher Brown
	Open Data Utilities in a Web 2.0 Envirmonment Stuart Macdonald
	UK e-Science Infrastructure for Social Scientists Gillian Sinclair, National Grid Service
	The Erasmus Computing Grid, Resource sharing at public funded organizations Luc V.de Zeeuw Tobias A. Knoch
14:00	Keynote 2: Professor Craig Calhoun, President, Social Science Research Council, University Professor of the Social Sciences, New York University
15:00	Panel Session : 'Whither e-Science?' Panel members: Malcolm Atkinson, Craig Calhoun and Win Jansen.
16:00	Coffee Break
16:30	Paper Session 1c: Social shaping of e-Infrastructure	Paper Session 2c: Research Tools
	A case study about how e-Infrastructure is used within the Social Sciences Mercedes Arguello Casteleiro, National Centre for e-Social Science	The experience of using Digital Replay System for social science research Patrick Brundell, University of Nottingham
	Mapping e-Science's path in the collaboration space: an ontological approach to monitoring infrastructure development Matthijs den Besten, Oxford e-Research Centre	Virtual Worlds: An Exploratorium for Theorizing and Modelling the Dynamics of Network and Group Behaviour Marshall Scott Poole, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
17:30	Close
Social Event
19:00	Conference Dinner, The Lowry Theatre (coaches will depart from the Manchester Conference Centre at 19:00)

Friday 20th June Manchester Conference Centre
09:00	Keynote 3: Dr. Francine Berman, Professor and HPC Endowed Chair, Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego, Director, San Diego Supercomputer Centre
10:00	Paper Session 3a: User requirements and usability	Paper Session 4a: Exploiting new kinds of data
	VERA: Virtual Environment for Research in Archaeology Mark Baker, University of Reading	Analysing User Generated Content for social science. Generational "we sense" in the Italian blogosphere Luca Rossi and Giovanni Boccia Artieri, Università di Urbino, Italy
	User-centered development of a Virtual Research Environment to support Collaborative Research Events Meik Poschen, National Centre for e-Social Science	Using Facebook as a Data Source and Platform for e-Researching Social Networks Robert Ackland, The Australian National University
		Disability, the Academy and Identity 2.0: Mapping the social experiences of disabled students online Sarah Elizabeth Lewthwaite, University of Nottingham
11:00	Coffee Break
11:30	Paper Session 3b: User requirements and usability	Paper Session 4b: Exploiting new kinds of data
	E-Experiences of Social Scientists: Challenges and Opportunities in Embedding e-Research Applications for Communication and Collaboration in the Social Sciences Dimitrina Spencer, Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford	Ethno-Goggles: Supporting Field Capture of Qualitative Material Paul Tennent, University of Nottingham
	Lessons from Developing a Social Networking Site for Scientists Rob Procter, National Centre for e-Social Science	Grid-enabled Data Collection and Analysis - Semantic Annotation in Skills-based Learning David De Roure, University of Southampton
	e-Science Application Development: Analyst and User Perspectives Sarah Thew, University of Manchester	Normative behaviour in Wikipedia Chris Goldspink, University of Surrey
13:00	Lunch
14:00	Paper Session 3c: Knowledge management and data curation	Paper Session 4c: Case studies of e-science
	Developing Ontologies to Support eSocial Science: The PolicyGrid Experience Peter Edwards, University of Aberdeen	Processing everything - lessons from comprehensive automated processing of the UK large scale government surveys Sam Smith, University of Manchester
	Profesional Identity and Knowledge Sharing: A Case analysis of a wiki to support public health professionals. Richard Giordano, Birkbeck College, University of London	Modelling and Simulation for e-Social Science Through the Use of Service-Orientation and Web 2.0 Technologies Paul Townend, University of Leeds
	Markup and Metadata in International Criminal Law Will Lowe, University of Nottingham	The Laboratory Blog-Book: How a laboratory blog notebook has developed to support, and in turn has been influenced by, experimental laboratory practice Jeremy G. Frey, University of Southampton
15:15	Coffee Break
15:45	Paper Session 3d: Case studies of e-science		Paper Session 4d: Social shaping of e-Infrastructure
	Defining the Role of the e-Social Scientist Paul Tennent, University of Nottingham	Investigating the Potential Uptake of e-Research within a Social Science Discipline: Socio-technical Issues within Library & Information Science Marisa Ponti, Gothenburg University/University College of Borås
	Measuring the Impact of e-Research: how to Account for Disciplinary Differences Jenny Fry, Loughborough University	Towards Participatory Development of Agent Based Models Catriona Kennedy, University of Birmingham
		Content Repositories and Social Networking: Can There Be Synergies? Paul Dolby, Lancaster University
17:00	Close