[Air-L] CFP: 5th International Conference on e-Social Science

[Yuwei Lin]

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5th International Conference on e-Social Science
24 - 26 June 2009
Maternushaus, Cologne.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The aim of the annual international conference on e-Social Science is to 
bring together leading representatives of the social science, 
e-Infrastructure, cyberinfrastructure and e-Research communities in order 
to improve mutual awareness and promote coordinated activities to 
accelerate research, development and deployment of powerful, new 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 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 studying issues impacting on the wider take-up of e-Research.

Contributions from professionals working in and with data services to 
support research and teaching in the social sciences are especially welcome.

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 methods to 
substantive social science research problems

- Case studies of e-Research, including benefits and problems in 
collaboration across organisational, disciplinary and geographical boundaries

- Case studies of 'Open Access Science', social networking and 'Science 2.0'

- Best practice examples of social research data infrastructure, including
virtual distributed databases, open access repositories, self-archiving

- Advances in tools and services for data discovery, harmonization,
integration, management, annotation, curation and sharing

- Challenges of exploiting new sources of administrative, transactional and
observational data, including security, legal and ethical issues in the use 
of personal and sensitive data

- Advances in analytical tools and techniques for quantitative and 
qualitative social science, including statistical modelling and simulation, 
data mining, text mining, content analysis, socio-linguistic analysis, 
social network analysis, data visualisation

- Case studies of collaborative research environments, including user
engagement, development and use

- User experiences of e-Research infrastructure, services and tools

- Factors influencing the adoption of e-Research, including technical
standards, user engagement and outreach, training, sustainability of 
digital artefacts, IPR and ethics

- New methods, metrics and tools for measuring the adoption and impact of 
e-Research and for informing policy-making

- The evolving research infrastructure technology roadmap, including grids,
cloud computing and web 2.0

- National e-Infrastructure development programmes, international 
cooperation in e-Infrastructure development

Authors are requested to submit an abstract of approximately 1000 words.

Workshop, tutorial and panel organisers are requested to submit a one page
outline of the topic, format, likely audience, special requirements.

_Deadlines and submission instructions_:

Paper abstracts: 26 January 2009.

Workshop, tutorial and panel outlines: 23 February 2009.

Poster and demo abstracts: 23 March 2009.

For full submission details and more information, please visit
http://www.ncess.ac.uk/conference-09/