*Apologies for cross posting* Dear List members I am pleased to announce the call for papers for the 1st International Conference on e-Social Science to be held in Manchester, UK on the 22nd - 24th of June 2005. The conference will bring together social scientists, computer scientists, Grid developers and data service providers and will aim to meet the challenge of realising the full potential for e-social science. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following: • Case studies of e-Social Science in practice • Enhancing existing research methods or facilitating novel research methods • Studies of (e-)Science and (e-)Social Science research practices • The benefits and challenges of large scale collaborative research • e-Social Science and the relationship between theoretically and empirically driven research • New sources and forms of social data • Standards for metadata, ontologies, annotation, curation, etc. • Ethical issues and challenges in the collection, integration, sharing and analysis of social data • Socio-technical issues in the development of e-Social Science • Middleware for data collection, sharing and integration • Tools for data mining, visualisation, modelling and collaborative research • Usability issues in tools and middleware Further information including important dates can be found on our website (http://www.ncess.ac.uk) Best wishes Prof. Rob Procter, Research Director & Dr Gillian Sinclair 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