e-Social Science All Hands Meeting

5-6 July 2004, Manchester

The e-Social Science All Hands Meeting in Manchester gave us a chance to get 70 social scientists and computer scientists together for a busy two days. All the e-social science pilot demonstrator projects gave introductions to their work and we had some inspiring plenary sessions. It was a good chance to take stock of current e-social science research and also to look towards the future as NCeSS began.

Click on the title of a session to open a PDF of the slides used in the presentation.

Monday 5 July 2004

Plenary 1

• What is e-Social Science? and introduction to the ESRC e-Social Science Strategy, Prof Tom Rodden (2.2 MB)
• Introduction to NCeSS, Prof Peter Halfpenny (161 k b)
• Introduction to the National Grid Service, Terry Hewitt (485 k b)

Pilot Demonstrator Project Presentations I

• An OGSA Component-Based Approach to Middleware for Statistical Modelling and introduction to CQeSS, Prof Rob Crouchley (1.7 MB)
• VidGrid: Distributed Video Analysis with Grid Technologies, Dr Mike Fraser and Jon Hindmarsh (400 k b)
• Informing Business & Regional Policy: Grid-enabled fusion of global data and local knowledge, Alastair Hume (947 k b)
• ConvertGrid: Cross-Referencing Data Held in Different Geographies, Jon MacLaren (679 k b)
• Grid-Enabled Micro-Econometric Data Analysis, Dr Simon Peters
• An Investigation of Disclosure Issues Posed by the Grid, Dr Mark Elliot (32 k b)

Parallel session I

Middleware for the Computational Grid (Globus)

• Computational Grid Middleware: An overview of current technology and future trends, Stephen Pickles and Rob Allan (2.03 MB)
• Discussion/Q&A (Convenor: Stephen Pickles)

Confidentiality and Access, Authentication and Accounting

• Confidentiality and the Grid, Dr Mark Elliot (77 k b)
• Access, Authentication and Accounting, Dr Mike Jones (1.67 MB)
• Discussion/Q&A (Convenor: Mark Elliot)

GIS and the Grid

• Geography and the Grid, lessons from the US, Bob Barr
• Geographical Information Services and Virtual Organisations, Mike Mineter (473 k b)
• Discussion/Q&A (Convenor: Bob Barr)

Pilot Demonstrator Project Presentations II

• SAMD, Celia Russell and Dr Mike Jones (466 k b)
• Hydra II Grid Based Spatial Planning Services, Dr Mark Birkin (508 k b)
• Pilot Semantic Grid Service for Environmental Modelling, Alun Preece and Edoardo Pignotti (1.06 MB)
• Genealogies of Knowledge - Developing Anthopological Middleware to Support Fieldwork-Based Social Science, Steve Lyon and David Zeitlyn
• Collaborative Analysis of Offenders' Personal and Area-Based Social Exclusion, Micheline Beaulieu, Young-Hoon Kim and Bridgette Wessels (893 k b)
• FINGRID - Financial Information Grid, Khurshid Ahmad and John Nankervis (975 k b)

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Tuesday 6 July 2004

Plenary 2

• Building the Semantic Grid, Carole Goble (3.16 MB)
• Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures, Malcolm Atkinson
• Introduction to the National Centre for Text Mining, Bill Black

Parallel session 2

Middleware for Data Grids (OGSA DAI, DQP, SRB)

• High-Level Data Management Grid Middleware, Dr Alvaro Fernandes (249 k b)
• SRB: What and Why? Kerstin Kleese van Dam (1.14 MB)
• Discussion/Q&A (Convenor: Dr Alvaro Fernandes)

Collaborative Technologies and Social Shaping

• Collaborative Technologies, Terry Hewitt (642 k b)
• Social Shaping of e-Science, Christine Hine. You can view the presentation on Christine's home page.
• Discussion/Q&A (Convenor: Dawn Nafus)

Developing e-Learning, Training and Awareness Materials for e-Social Science

• Fast Track – e-Social Science Training and Awareness Programme, Andrew Gold (556 k b)
• Portal Content and Technology for e-Learning and e-Social Science, Rob Allan
• Discussion/Q&A (Convenor: Keith Cole)

Plenary 3

• NCeSS Research Programme, Prof Rob Procter (97 k b)
• Closing session: Feedback and Where Next? Prof Peter Halfpenny (142 k b)

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