Dear Colleagues The Second International Conference on e-Social Science will be held in Manchester, UK from the 28th to the 30th of June 2006. Conference themes include: New sources and forms of social science data and their application New or enhanced research methods through e-social science Ethical issues for data collection and sharing Large-scale collaborative research Standards for metadata, ontologies, annotation etc Tools and applications for e-social science Usability issues e-Social science exemplars We are currently seeking submissions under the following categories: Full and short papers – 30th January 2006 Workshops, tutorials and panel sessions – 27th February 2006 Posters – 27th March 2006 This follows on from the great success of the First International Conference held earlier this year. Papers from this conference are available at http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/conference/2005/ For further details of the 2006 conference (including sponsorship opportunities), please go to the conference website at http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/conference/ where you will also find a conference poster available for download and display. Details of the online submission procedure will be released shortly. Please check the website regularly or join our monthly newsletter (http://www.ncess.ac.uk/newsletter/) to keep up to date with conference activities. Best wishes Gillian Dr Gillian Sinclair Programme Manager ESRC National Centre for e-Social Science University of Manchester Dover Street Building Dover Street Manchester M13 9PL UK Email: [log in to unmask] Web: http://www.ncess.ac.uk Tel: 0161-275-1380