Dear colleagues,
please find below a first announcement of a workshop on Realising and
Supporting Collaboration in e-Research at ECSCW'07 in Limerick on 24th
September 2007. We would like to ask people to submit short position
statements, see details below.
Best wishes,
Alex
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Workshop 10: Realising and Supporting Collaboration in e-Research
Organisers: Alex Voss(1), Rob Procter(1), Meik Poschen(1), Tom
Rodden(2), Gary Olson(3), Roger Slack(4), Mark Hartswood(5), Marina
Jirotka(6), Annamaria Carusi(6), Steffen Budweg(7)
1) National Centre for e-Social Science, University of Manchester, UK
2) School of Computer Science and IT, University of Nottingham, UK
3) School of Information, University of Michigan, US
4) School of Social Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor, UK
5) School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
6) Oxford e-Research Centre, Oxford University, UK
7) Fraunhofer FIT, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Workshop Overview
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Over the last six years, the UK e-Science Programme, the
Cyberinfrastructure programme in the US and similar intiatives in other
countries have been key in establishing the vision of e-Research and
securing significant funding for work aiming to establish sophisticated,
ubiquitous e-infrastructures for research. More recently, e-Research has
started to move from the development of basic technologies (like the
Grid) and early demonstrators to more routine practice and the range of
research disciplines taking up e-Research approaches has widened and now
includes social science and arts & humanities research. It is at this
point, where the focus shifts to the accomplishment of e-Research as a
routine undertaking, that issues to do with collaboration in e-Research
come to the fore. Many of these issues, e.g., supporting remote or
distributed collaboration, understanding the social dimensions of
collaboration and technology use, building collaborative applications
and environments have been key research areas for the CSCW community
over the years, placing it in a unique position to contribute
methodological, conceptual and practical insights in support of the
e-Research endeavour. The workshop will contribute to our evolving
understanding of how e- Research endeavours get realised.
Who should attend
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This full-day workshop will be of interest to people who would like to
see the CSCW community play a stronger role in e-Research programmes. It
will also be of interest to people building virtual research
environments (aka. cyberenvironments or science gateways) or are
studying e-Research activities from a CSCW perspective.
In order to allow for it to be very discussion-focused, we would like to
limit the number of attendees to 10-15 (in addition to the organisers).
Details of the workshop can be found at
http://www.e-researchcommunity.org/news/ecscw2007.html
Dissemination
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We expect the outcome of the workshop to be a concrete plan for a better
utilisation of the lessons of CSCW research in e-Research Endeavours.
This may involve plans for training events such as Summer Schools or
developing ways in which CSCW knowledge can be brought to bear in
e-Research projects. The workshop organisers have a track record of
studying collaboration in e-Research and, through their various
affiliations, can guarantee that the workshop outcomes are widely
disseminated and taken seriously by the e-Research community.
We will also be looking at disseminating workshop outcomes through a
journal special issue. Details of this will be posted on the workshop
website (see above) prior to the event.
Submissions
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We would like to ask participants to submit 2-page position statements
by the 15th of July 2007 by sending a PDF or Word file to
[log in to unmask] Acceptance notifications will be sent by the 22nd
of July.
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Alexander Voss, Research Associate
National Centre for e-Social Science
University of Manchester
Phone: +44 161 275 1384
Phone @ eSI: +44 131 651 4041
Email: [log in to unmask]
Homepage: http://www.alexandervoss.de
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