Second International Conference on e-Social Science
28-30 June 2006, Manchester, UK
The Second International Conference on e-social science was held at Manchester Metropolitan University on 28 - 30 June 2006. Over three days more than 160 people attended workshops, plenary sessions, keynotes and paper sessions. Delegates came from ten countries, and from academic, public and private sectors.
Contributions were invited from members of the social science and Grid research communities with experience of - or interests in - exploring, developing and applying e-Social Science research methods, practices and tools, and in studying the wider development of e-Research and the Grid. Submission categories included: full and short papers, posters, workshops and tutorials.
Conference themes included:
- 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