E-SOCIAL 2009 - The 5th International Conference on e-Social Science

Website http://www.ncess.ac.uk/conference-09/ | Edit Freely

Category E-SOCIAL 2009

Deadline: January 26, 2009 | Date: June 24, 2009

Venue/Country: Cologne, Germany

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

http://www.ncess.ac.uk/conference-09/

The 5th International Conference on e-Social Science will be held in

Cologne, Germany on 24th - 26th June 2009. The conference is held in

collaboration with the German Social Science Infrastructure Services

(GESIS). GESIS is an institution devoted to research and service, which,

by providing information, consultation and data, supports and

facilitates scientific work at every stage of the research process.

CONFERENCE AIM

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.

TOPIC OF INTEREST

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

SUBMISSION

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

We will be posting details of where to submit in the next few days.

Please indicate the category of your submission: full paper, short

paper, poster or demo and include the contact details of the main author

on a separate sheet. Demo submissions should include a statement of

technical requirements.

Submissions will be subject to independent review and a final decision

will be made by the conference programme committee. Authors of

submissions not accepted as full papers may be invited to submit a short

paper or poster instead. Accepted full and short papers will be

published in the conference proceedings.

Papers can now be submitted via the following link:

https://www.conftool.net/ncess2009/

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline for long paper abstracts and short paper abstracts:

26 January 2009

Submission deadline for Workshop, Tutorial & Panel Outlines: 23 February

2009

Submission deadline for poster abstracts and demo outlines: 23 March 2009

Author notification: 2 March 2009

Final submission: 11 May 2009