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4th International Conference on e-Social Science 
Manchester, June 18th-20th, 2008
Initial Announcement and Call for Submissions

The aim of the conference on e-Social Science is to bring together leading 
international representatives of the social science, e-
Infrastructure/cyberinfrastructure and e-Research communities in order to 
improve mutual awareness, harmonize understanding and instigate 
coordinated activities to accelerate research, development and deployment 
of powerful, new research 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: 1) 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 2) studying issues impacting on the wider take-up of e-
Research. 

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 research methods to 
substantive social science problems 
Case studies of (e-)Research and (e-)Social Science research practices, 
including benefits and challenges of collaboration (both small and large 
scale) across disciplinary and geographical boundaries 
Advances in tools and techniques for quantitative and qualitative e-Social 
Science, including statistical analysis, simulation, data mining, text 
mining, social network analysis and collaborative environments 
Infrastructure and services for e-Social Science, including data 
collection, discovery, sharing and integration, standards for metadata, 
ontologies, annotation, curation 
Enabling new sources and forms of sociological data through e-Social 
Science, including ethical issues and challenges in the collection, 
integration, sharing and analysis of sociological and other personal data 
The e-Research technical roadmap, including grids, web 2.0 and their 
future (co-evolution) 
Socio-technical issues in the development of e-Research, including 
usability challenges for the design of research tools and middleware, 
factors influencing the wider adoption and sustainability of e-
Infrastructure 
Submission Guidelines
To submit a paper, workshop, panel or demo, you must first register at the 
submission website and then follow the instructions.

Please indicate the category of your submission: long paper (10 pages), 
short paper (6 pages), poster, workshop, panel or demo. Demo submissions 
should include a statement of technical requirements.

Authors of papers (long and short) and posters must submit an abstract of 
approximately 1000-1500 words.

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

Submissions (paper and poster abstracts, workshop, panel and demo 
outlines) will be subject to independent review and a final decision will 
be made by the conference programme committee. Authors of submissions not 
accepted as long papers may be invited to submit a short paper or poster 
instead.

Paper authors will be informed of the programme committee’s decision 
during the week commencing 17th March, 2008.

Workshop, panel, poster and demo authors will be informed of the programme 
committee's decision during the week commencing 7th April 2008. 

Accepted long and short papers will be published in the conference 
proceedings.

Templates for the camera-ready copies of long and short papers are 
available here

Guidelines for posters and demos will be available in due course. 

Submission Deadlines 
Paper abstracts: February 11th, 2008.
Workshop, tutorial and panel outlines: February 22nd, 2008.
Poster and demo abstracts: March 21st, 2008.
Final versions of long and short papers: 16th May 2008