2006 International Conference on e-Social Science
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Wednesday 28 June
- Workshop 1: Social Science Perspectives on e-Science
- Workshop 2: e-Collaboration Workshop - Access Grid, Portals and other Virtual Research Environments for
the Social Sciences - Workshop 3: A Semantic Grid for Social Science
- Workshop 4: New Tools and Techniques for Qualitative Research: Exploring the Challenges and Pitfalls
- Workshop 5: User Requirements for Visualization in e-Social Science
Thursday 29 June
Welcome
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Peter Halfpenny
National Centre for e-Social Science, University of Manchester
Keynote 1: Progress with e-Science?
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Prof. Malcolm Atkinson
UK, e-Science Envoy Professor of e-Science, University of Edinburgh
Paper Session 1a: Metadata
- Using Real-Time Annotations as Qualitative e-Research Metadata
Mike Fraser, Muneeb Shaukat, Serguei Timakov Department of Comp. Sci., University of Bristol, UK.
Jon Hindmarsh, Dylan Tutt, Christian Heath Department of Management, King's College London, UK.
Anne Manuel Institute for Learning and Research Technology University of Bristol, UK.
Marie Gibbs and Sally Barnes Graduate School of Education, UK.
- Towards Interoperable Secondary Annotations in the e-Social Science Domain
Baden Hughes Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Desmond Schmidt, Andrew E. Smith Key Centre for Human Factors and Applied Cognitive Psychology, University of Queensland, Queensland 4072, Australia
- Software Replay Tools for Time-Based Social Science Data
French, A., Greenhalgh, C., Crabtree, A. , Wright, M., Brundell, P., Hampshire, A., and Rodden, T. School of Computer Science & IT, University of Nottingham, UK.
Paper Session 2a: Collaboration
- Memetic: From Meeting Memory to Virtual Ethnography & Distributed Video Analysis
Simon Buckingham Shum, Michelle Bachler, Clara Mancini Knowledge Media Institute & Centre for Research in Computing, The Open University, UK
Michael Daw, Andrew Rowley, Terry Hewitt Access Grid Support Centre, Manchester Computing, University of Manchester, UK
Roger Slack, Rob Procter Social Informatics, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK
Ben Juby, Danius Michaelides, David De Roure, Tim Chown Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK
- The ECOSENSUS Project: Co-Evolving Tools, Practices and Open Content for Participatory Natural Resource Management
Andrea Berardi, Savitha Ganapathy, Martin Reynolds, Werner Ulrich Open Systems Research Group, Systems Department, Technology Faculty, Open University, UK
Michelle Bachler, Simon Buckingham Shum Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, UK
Calvin Bernard Centre for the Study of Biological Diversity, University of Guyana, Guyana.
Jayalaxshmi Mistry Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK,
Paper Session 1b: Metadata
- An Infrastructure for Linguistic Data on the Web
Scott Farrar University of Arizona, USA
William D. Lewis University of Washington and California State University at Fresno, USA
D. Terence Langendoen National Science Foundation, USA
- Global social science data exchange: why do we need data and metadata standards
Louise Corti, Ken Miller UK Data Archive, United Kingdom
- Using ontologies with case studies: an end-user perspective on OWL
J. Gary Polhill Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Gina Ziervogel Department of Environmental & Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa
- A tree full of leaves: description logic and data documentation
Phil Edwards, Judith Aldridge, Karen Clarke University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Paper Session 2b: Collaboration
- Creating E-Research Communities: The Aotearoa/New Zealand Project
David Thorns Professor School of Sociology and Anthropology University of Canterbury
- From INWA to INCA: An International Collaboration in e-Social Science
A.D. Lloyd, V.Maxville, Y. Sun
Curtin Business School, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, AustraliaA.D. Lloyd Management School, The University of Edinburgh, UK
T.M. Sloan EPCC, The University of Edinburgh, UK
- VOSON: A Web Services Approach for Facilitating Research into Networks
Robert Ackland, Mathieu O'Neil, Markus Buchhorn The Australian National University, Australia
Russell Standish University of New South Wales, Australia
- e-Enabling Data: Potential impacts on methods and expertise
Dr Samuelle Carlson, Dr Ben Anderson Chimera, University of Essex
Keynote 2: From Disasters to WoW - Enabling Communities with Cyberinfrastructure
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Prof. Noshir Contractor
Professor of Speech Communication University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Paper Session 1c: Data Integration
- ConvertGrid
Keith Cole, Linda Mason MIMAS, Manchester Computing, University of Manchester, UK
Pascal Ekin RSS, Manchester Computing, University of Manchester, UK
Jon Maclaren Center for Computation and Technology, Louisiana State University, USA
- Development of a Grid Enabled Occupational Data Environment
Lambert, P.S., Tan, K.L.L, Gayle, V. University of Stirling, Department of Applied Social Science, UK
Tan, K.L.L., Turner, K.J. University of Stirling, Department of Computing Science and Mathematics, UK
Prandy, K. Cardiff University, School of Social Sciences, UK
Sinnott, R.O. University of Glasgow, National e-Science Centre, UK
- Information Portals for the Social Sciences - Integration vs Aggregation
Maximilian Stempfhuber GESIS / Social Science Information Centre (IZ), Bonn, Germany
Panel Session 1: Collaboration, Computation and Community: Lessons from the music information retrieval community
- J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
- Matthew J. Dovey, JISC Programme Director for e-Research, UK
- David De Roure, Professor of Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK
Panel Session 2: Social Network Analysis Cyberinfrastructure (SNAC)
- Noshir Contractor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
- Robert Ackland, The Australian National University, Australia
Friday 30 June
Keynote 3: Is e-social science the future of the social sciences?
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Prof. Peter van den Besselaar
Head of Science System Assessment Rathenau Instituut, the Netherlands
Paper Session 3a: Methods and Tools
- Engaging with the Access Grid as a new data collection tool
Professor Nigel Fielding, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, UK
Maria Macintyre, Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, UK
- Beyond the Text: Construction and Analysis of Multi-Modal Linguistic Corpora
Dawn Knight, Sahar Bayoumi, Steve Mills, Andy Crabtree, Svenja Adolphs, Tony Pridmore, Ronald Carter University of Nottingham, UK
- Talk it up! Integrating traditional telephone research methodologies with emerging e-Social Science tools, methods and practices
Collette Snowden School of Communication, Information and New Media University of South Australia
- Linguistic-computing methods for analysing digital records of learning
Richard Forsyth, Shaaron Ainsworth, David Clarke, Pat Brundell and Claire O'Malley. School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK
Paper Session 4a: Social Shaping
- Building Virtual Research Environments and User Engagement
Annamaria Carusi & Marina Jirotka Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Oxford, UK
- Abstractions, Accountability and Grid Usability
M. Hartswood, R. Slack, J. Ure and A. Voss School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK.
R. Procter National Centre for e-Social Science, University of Manchester, UK.
J. M. Schopf National e-Science Centre, Edinburgh, UK.
- Introducing Pegasus: An ethnographic research project studying the use of Grid technologies by the UK particle Physics Community
Will Venters, Tony Cornford London School of Economics, London, UK
- e-Sciences: Infrastructures that reshape the Global Contours of Knowledge
Ralph Schroeder Oxford Internet Institute, UK
Paper Session 3b: Methods and Tools
- Concept-based Mining to Enhance the Scope and Speed of Archival Qualitative Research
Andrew E. Smith Key Centre for Human Factors and Applied Cognitive Psychology
The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia - Turning the Internet Archive into a New Cybertool for Social Science Research
William Arms, Dan Huttenlocher, Jon Kleinberg Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, USA
Michael Macy, David Strang Department of Sociology, Cornell University, USA
- Bring the lab to the cities: experiences from two Dutch living labs
Ingrid Mulder, Daan Velthausz, Patrick Strating, Henri ter Hofte Telematica Instituut, Enschede, The Netherlands
- Working with Digital Records: Developing Tool Support
Andy Crabtree, Andy French, Chris Greenhalgh, Tom Rodden and Steve Benford School of Computer Science & IT, University of Nottingham, UK.
Paper Session 4b: Social Shaping
- Taking the Digital Turn in Narrative Studies
John Given Northumbria University, UK
- Multi-disciplinary research into new technologies: collaboration and breakdown
Annamaria Carusi Oxford University Computing Laboratory
- Using Domain analysis and Organisational Theory to Understand e-Science Sustainability
Dr Jenny Fry Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Professor Mike Thelwall Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group, School of Computing & Information Technology, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
Paper Session 3c: Simulation Modelling
- sabreR: Grid-enabling the analysis of multi-process random effect response data in R
Daniel Grose, Rob Crouchley, Ties van Ark University of Lancaster
Rob Allan, John Kewley, Adam Braimah CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory
Mark Hayes University of Cambridge
- A Synthetic Demographic Model of the UK Population: Methods, Progress and Problems
Mark Birkin, Andy Turner and Belinda Wu School of Geography, University of Leeds
- Improving Effectiveness of Communications Sampling of Covert Networks
Maksim Tsvetovat George Mason University, USA
Kathleen M. Carley Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Developing Grid enabled spatial regression models
Richard Harris, Min hua Jen, David Kilham, Edward Thomas School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, UK
Chris Brunsdon, Claire Jarvis Department of Geography, University of Leicester, UK
- Assisted Model Building in the Social Sciences using Data Driven Simulation
Peter Lee, Ed Ferrari
Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham, UK
Catriona Kennedy, Georgios Theodoropoulos School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK
Chris Skelcher Institute for Local Government Studies, School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham, UK
Paper Session 4c: Confidentiality
- Developing confidential Data Enclaves for Statistical Data
Norman Bradburn Senior Fellow Education & Child Development Department
Randy Horton Director of Development, Technology Services Information Technology Department
Julia Lane Senior Vice President Economics, Labor, and Population Studies Department
Michael Tilkin Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer Information Technology Department
- Patient Record Data: Disclosure Control for Grid Based data Access
M. Elliot, K. Purdam, D. Smith Cathie Marsh Centre, University of Manchester
- A Distributed Search Infrastructure for Statistical Disclosure Control on a Grid
K. R. Mayes, A. M. Manning, J. R. Gurd Centre for Novel Computing, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester
M. J. Elliot
Centre for Census and Survey Research, University of Manchester.D. Haglin Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Minnesota State University.
Panel Session 3: Collaboration and Engagement: the use of new technologies across the Teaching and Learning Research Programme and the Applied Education Research Scheme.
- Patrick Carmichael & Catherine Howell, CARET
- Richard Procter, TLRP
- Alastair Wilson & Sanna Rimpilainen, AERS
Panel Session 4: Living Labs for Intelligent Cities.
- Steve Curwell, University of Salford
- Ian Cooper, Eclipse Research Consultants, Cambridge
- Sharon Dawes & Anthony Cresswell, Center for Technology in Government, University of Albany, USA
- Fiona Campbell, Napier University , Edinburgh
