Dear colleagues
Paper submission for the Second International Conference on e-Social
Science (28th – 30th June 2006) is now open and can be found on our
website at - http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/conference/ along with the call
for papers containing formatting instructions etc.
In line with last year we will have a variety of presentations at the
conference which will be preceded by a series of workshops. Further
details of the First International Conference on e-Social Science can also
be found on our website at - http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/conference/2005/
We currently have 3 submission deadlines –
Full and short papers – 30th January 2006
Workshops / tutorials / panel sessions – 27th February 2006
Posters – 27th March 2006
Topics to be covered at the conference include (but are not restricted to):
Case studies of e-Social Science research methods and applications
Enabling new sources and forms of sociological data through e-Social
Science
Infrastructure and tools for e-Social Science
Middleware for data collection, sharing and integration
Standards for metadata, ontologies, annotation, curation, etc.
Usability issues in the design of research tools and middleware
Case studies of (e-)Research and (e-) Social Science research practices
The benefits and challenges of large scale collaborative research
Interdisciplinary research and e-Social Science
International collaborations in e-Social Science
Socio-technical issues in the development of e-Research and the Grid
Ethical issues and challenges in the collection, integration, sharing and
analysis of sociological and other personal data
We look forward to seeing you in Manchester, UK 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
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Website: http://www.ncess.ac.uk
Newsletter: http://www.ncess.ac.uk/newsletter
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