Programme
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| Wednesday 24 June 2009: Workshops and Tutorials |
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| 09:30 - 17:00 |
Tutoria1:Grid-enabling Social Simulations: an example using the Repast toolkit |
Session Chair: Alex Voss |
| 09:30 - 17:00 |
Tutorial 2: Scientific and statistical computing in the cloud; introducing the Biocep platform for statistical computing Room: Heribert |
Session Chair: Karim Chine |
| 09:30 - 13:00 |
Workshop 1: Web analysis of politics, online ideas, discussions and trends Room: Film Room |
Session Chairs: Ganaele Langlois and Greg Elmer |
| 09:30 - 13:00 |
Workshop 2: Law, Ethics and e-Social Science Room: Lambertus |
Session Chair: Annamaria Carusi |
| 09:30 - 13:00 |
Workshop 3: Scientific Writing and New Patterns of Scientific Communication Room: Adelheid |
Session Chairs: Julian Newman & Esther Breuer |
| 09:30 - 13:00 |
Workshop 4: Cross-nationally comparative social survey research Room: Dreikoenigensaal |
Session Chair: Paul Lambert |
| 13:00 - 14:00 |
Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 17:30 |
Workshop 5: Computer workshop: Software to aid politics and social science web research. Room: Film Room |
Session Chair: Mike Thelwall |
| 14:00 - 17:30 |
Workshop 6: Imagining, Identifying, and Investigating e-Research: An Extended Exploration (http://www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl/wiki/) Room: Dreikoenigensaal |
Session Chair: Nick Jankowski |
| 14:00 - 17:30 |
Workshop 7: Constructing and interrogating corpora using heterogeneous datasets Room: Adelheid |
Session Chair: Dawn Knight |
| 14:00 - 17:30 |
Workshop 8: Coding the Blogosphere: Introducing the Coding and Blog Analysis Toolkits Room: Lambertus |
Session Chair: Stuart Shulman |
| 17:30 |
Close | |
| Thursday 25 June 2009 |
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| 08:45 |
Welcome: Peter Halfpenny, Executive Director, NCeSS |
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| 09:00 |
Keynote 1: Kostas Glinos |
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| 10:00 | Session 1a: e-Infrastructure developments I | Session 2a: Research Methods and Tools I |
| Supporting security oriented, inter-disciplinary research: Crossing the social, clinical and geospatial domains Richard O. Sinnott, Thomas Doherty, Chris Higgins, Paul S. Lambert, Susan McCafferty, Anthony J. Stell, Larry Tan, Kenneth J. Turner and John P. Watt |
Application of the LifeGuide: The development and quantitative analysis of the 'Internet Docter' Judith Joseph, Lucy Yardley, Jonathan Hare, Adrian Osmond, Mark Weal, Garry Wills and Susan Michie |
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| Architectural design patterns for security oriented workflows in the social science domain Richard Sinnott and Sardar Hussain |
Application of the LifeGuide: Think-aloud study of users' experiences of the 'Internet Docter' Leanne Georgette Morrison, Judith Joseph, Panayiota Andreou and Lucy Yardley |
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| Lifestyle measurement in virtual worlds: An empirical feasibility study within the environment of 'Second Life' Daniel Witte and Andreas Muchlichen |
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| 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:30 | Session 1b: Collaboratories | Session 2b: Innovations in survey research |
| Issues for the sharing and re-use of scientific workflows in a social curation site Yuwei Lin, Meik Poschen, Rob Procter, Carole Goble and Dave De Roure |
Crowd Source data for the social sciences: Web based services and real-time geographic surveys Andrew Hudson-Smith, Richard Milton, Andrew Crooks and Mike Batty |
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| Uncovering collaboratories in Social and Economic history Stefan Dormans |
Comparing 'Comparative survey data' Richard Topf |
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| Obesity e-Lab: Connecting social science via research objects Iain Buchan, Shoaib Sufi, Ian Dunlop, Urara Hiroeh, Dexter Canoy, John Ainsworth, Angela Dale and Carole Goble |
Spain's e-Infrastructure facilities: ASEP / JDS Data Bank Juan Diez-Nicolas and Jaime Diez-Medrano |
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| 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Keynote 2: Ian Foster CIM-Earth: A Community Integrated Model of Energy and Resources Trajectories for Humankind |
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| 15:00 | Session 1c: e-Infrastructure Developments II | Session 2c: Social Shaping of e-Infrastructure I |
| Spatial Data e-Infrastructure Christopher I Higgins, Michael Koutroumpas, Richard O. Sinnott, John Watt, Thomas Doherty, Ally C. Hume, Andrew G D. Turner and David Rawnsley |
The Future of e-Research Infrastructures Ralph Schroeder. Eric T. Meyer, Kathryn Eccles, Zack Kertcher, Franz Barjak, Tobias Huesing and Simon Robinson |
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| Secure Data Service: specifications and challenges of using potentially disclosive data Reza Afkhami, Melanie Wright, Mus Ahmet |
The social shaping and implications of research-centred computational networks: A synthesis of cases Bill Dutton |
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| Internet proxy technology for securing a satellite image service (SIDS) Pascal Ekin |
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| 16:00 |
Coffee Break | |
| 16:30 | Session 1d: Impacts of Digitisation of Resources in the Humanities | Session 2d: Social Shaping of e-Infrastructure II |
| Controversial digitisation: trying to transform a scholarly field by reorganising its instruments Paul Wouters and Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner |
Challenges in the development of digital data infrastructures Andre Somers Edwin Horlings, Anouschka Versleijen, Floorrtje Daemen and Peter van den Besselaar |
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| Digitisation as e-Research Infrastructure: Access to materials and research capabilities in the Humanities Kathryn Eccles, Eric T. Meyer and Christine Madsen |
What about Sea Urchins?: Collaborative ontology building among Bio Informaticians Dave Randall, Robert Stevens, Wes Sharrock, Rob Procter, Yuwei Lin and Meik Poschen |
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| From source to resource: the London Gazette, e-research and the UK government, past and present David Simon Magee |
Next generation Researchers: Doctoral students in Social Sciences and Humanities in Sweden and their attitudes towards open access, open repositories and e-Research Ann-Sofie Axelsson and Carina Carlhead |
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| 17:30 | Close | |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner |
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| Friday 26 June |
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| 09:00 | Keynote 3: David Theo Goldberg Networking Knowledge |
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| 10:00 | Session 3a: Methods and tools for media content analysis | Session 4a: Data integration and management |
| Analysis of the YouTube videos used by the activists of the Uyghur nationalist movement: theoretical and methodological issues Matteo Vergani and Dennis Zuev |
Standards setting when standardising categorical data Paul s. Lambert, Vernon Gayle, Alison Bowes, Jesse Blum, Simon Jones, Larry Tan, Kenneth Turber and Guy Warner |
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| Supporting frame analysis using Text Mining Sophia Ananiadou, Davy Weissenbacher, Brian Rea, Elisa Pieri, Farida Vis, Yuwei Lin, Rob Procter and Peter Halfpenny |
QDDS - Documenting survey questionnaires throughout their lifecycle Oliver Hopt, Rainer Schnell, Maximillian Stempfhuber and Anja Zwingenberger |
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| Performance evaluation of the Structured Population Event History Register (SPEHR) Relational Schema for Managing Longitudinal Health and Population Data Benjamin D. Clark and Samuel J. Clark |
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| 11:00 | Coffee Break |
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| 11:30 | Session 3b: Data Integration | Session 4b: Mapping adoption of e-Research |
| How to make the unpublishable public: The approach of the CESSDA Survey Data Harmonisation Platform Markus Quandt, Alex Agache and Martin Friedrichs |
Mapping Global e-Research: Scientometrics and Webometrics Eric T. Meyer, Han Woo Park and Ralph Schroeder |
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| DISS: A new data infrastructure for e-Social Science in the Netherlands Peter Doorn and Kees Aarts |
Social Scientists and the domestication of e-Research tools Dimitrina Dimova Spencer and Ralph Schroeder |
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| Modelling Text-Fact-Integration in Digital Libraries Benjamin Zapilko and Maximilian Stempfhuber |
Adoption of e-Infrastructure Services: findings, issues and opportunities Alex Voss, Marzieh Asgari-Targhi, Rob Procter, Peter Halfpenny, Elpiniki Fragkouli, Sheila Anderson, Lorna Hughes, David Fergusson, Elizabeth van der Meer and Malcolm Atkinson |
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| e-Infrastructure for Comparative Social Research: From implementation to evaluation of the ZACAT Data Portal Ekkehard Mochmann, Reiner Mauer and Wolfgang Zenk-Moeltgen |
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| 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Panel Session: National Approaches to eResearch: Where do we go from here? |
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| 15:00 | Session 3c: Ethics and e-Research | Session 4c: Social Shaping of e-Infrastructure III |
| Ethical Implications of using lifestyle monitoring data in ageing research Alison Bowes, Alison Dawson and David Bell |
Careers for collaboration: Analysing artists' design and use of experimental information and communication technologies using career biographies |
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| Rethinking research ethics for mediated settings Anne Beaulieu and Adolfo Estalella |
Distributed large-scale systems development: Exploring the collaborative development of the particle physics Grid |
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| Trying to see the bigger picture: a review of the opportunities for linking eHealth and social Science datasets to enhance understanding of risk in suicide in Scotland Alison Dawson and Margaret Maxwell |
Grids Knowledge Infrastructure: A case study of the LCG Computing Grid at CERN through a practice lens |
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| 16:00 | Session 3d: Research Methods and Tools II |
Session 4d: Research Methods and Tools III |
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A Data Warehouse approach to Public Safety Monitoring |
Computational Support for Policy Arguments Alison Chorley, Peter Edwards and Lorna Philip |
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Designing authoring tools for the creation of online behavioural interventions |
An Educational Tool for Agent-Based Simulations Based on Model Templates Ludovit Hajzet, Zdeno Osina, Laszlo Gulyas and Ladislav Samuelis |
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16:45 |
Closing Comments |
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| 17:00 | Close | |
[This programme may be subject to change]

