First International Conference on e-Social Science
22-24 June 2005, Manchester
The First International Conference on e-social science was held at Manchester Conference Centre on 22– 24 June 2005, during the ESRC Social Science Week. Over three days more than 150 people attended workshops, plenary sessions, keynotes and paper sessions. Delegates came from sixteen countries, and from academic, public and private sectors.
Conference themes included:
- Case studies of e-social science in practice
- Studies of (e-)research and (e-)social science research practices
- The benefits and challenges of large scale collaborative research
- Enhancing existing social science research methods through e-social science
- Innovation in research methods through e-social science
- Socio-technical issues in the development of e-social science research methods
- Ethical issues and challenges in the collection, integration, sharing and analysis of
sociological data - New sources and forms of sociological data
- Standards for metadata, ontologies, annotation, curation, etc
- Middleware for data collection, sharing and integration
- Tools for data mining, visualisation, analysis, modelling and collaborative research
- Understanding requirements for research tools and middleware