Dear List members

A brief reminder that the closing date for submissions to the First 
International Conference on e-Social Science to be held in Manchester,UK 
is the 1^st of Feb 2005.

A reminder of the call for papers is included below but please also 
check our website for details of the updated Programme Committee. 
Details of how to submit online will be announced soon on our website.

I hope to see you in Manchester this summer.

Best wishes

Dr Gillian Sinclair

Programme Manager

ESRC National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS)

University of Manchester

Dover Street Building

Dover Street

Manchester

UK

M13 9PL

Tel: 0161 275 1380

Email: [log in to unmask]

Website: http://www.ncess.ac.uk

News mailing list: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/E-SOCIAL-SCIENCE-NEWS

CALL FOR PAPERS

1st International Conference on e-Social Science

Manchester

June 22-24, 2005

Initial Announcement and Call for Submissions

www.ncess.ac.uk/conference-05/

Overview

The vision of the ‘Grid’ first emerged as a solution to the highly 
specialised computing infrastructure requirements of particle physics. 
The past five years, however, have seen the Grid’s potential recognised 
by the wider scientific research community and the emergence of new 
forms of research practice now encapsulated in the notion of ‘e-Research’.

Now, members of the social science research community in the UK and 
elsewhere are beginning to explore how they can use the Grid and the 
prospects for ‘e-Social Science’. This year, for example, has seen the 
creation in the UK of the National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS).

The opportunities presented by the Grid for social science research are 
numerous and intriguing. The Grid will make it possible for new 
computational tools to be brought to bear on a diverse range of social 
science research problems; it will make established social science 
datasets more readily accessible, easier to integrate and to share; it 
will make feasible the collection and curation of new kinds of data on 
an unprecedented scale. Beyond enhancing existing research methods, 
however, e-Social Science also brings with it the prospect of 
articulating a radically new research agenda and encouraging the 
formation of new forms of research community.

Realising the full potential for e-Social Science will be a major 
challenge and calls for a major collaborative effort from social 
scientists and Grid technologists. As a contribution to meeting this 
challenge, NCeSS is very pleased to announce the first international 
conference on e-Social Science.

We invite contributions from members of the social science and Grid 
research communities with experience of – or interests in – exploring, 
developing and applying e-Social Science research methods, practices, 
tools and technologies.

Submission categories include: full and short papers, posters, workshops 
and tutorials.

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following:

* Case studies of e-Social Science in practice

* Studies of (e-)Research and (e-)Social Science research practices

* The benefits and challenges of large scale collaborative research

* Enhancing existing social science research methods through e-Social 
Science

* Innovation in research methods through e-Social Science

* Socio-technical issues in the development of e-Social Science research 
methods

* Ethical issues and challenges in the collection, integration, sharing 
and analysis of sociological data

* New sources and forms of sociological data

* Standards for metadata, ontologies, annotation, curation, etc.

* Middleware for data collection, sharing and integration

* Tools for data mining, visualisation, analysis, modelling and 
collaborative research

· Understanding requirements for research tools and middleware

Submission requirements for full and short papers, posters

Authors are requested to submit an abstract of approximately 1000-1500 
words.

Please indicate the category of your submission: full paper, short paper 
or poster and include the contact details of the main author on a 
separate sheet.

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.

Formats for the camera-ready copies of full and short papers, and 
posters will be available for download from the conference web site in 
February 2005.

Submission requirements for workshop and tutorials

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

Deadlines and submission instructions

Paper and poster abstracts, workshop and tutorial outlines: February 
1st, 2005.

Submission instructions will appear on the conference web site in January.

Authors will be informed of the programme committee’s decision on March 
14th, 2005.