Papers

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Wednesday 28 June

• Workshop 1: Social Science Perspectives on e-Science
• Workshop 2: e-Collaboration Workshop - Access Grid, Portals and other Virtual Research Environments for the Social Sciences
• Workshop 3: A Semantic Grid for Social Science
• Workshop 4: New Tools and Techniques for Qualitative Research: Exploring the Challenges and Pitfalls
• Workshop 5: User Requirements for Visualization in e-Social Science

Thursday 29 June

Welcome

• Peter Halfpenny
  National Centre for e-Social Science, University of Manchester

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Keynote 1: Progress with e-Science?

• Prof. Malcolm Atkinson
  UK, e-Science Envoy
  Professor of e-Science, University of Edinburgh

   Presentation

  
  

Paper Session 1a: Metadata

• Using Real-Time Annotations as Qualitative e-Research Metadata

  Mike Fraser, Muneeb Shaukat, Serguei Timakov
  Department of Comp. Sci., University of Bristol, UK.

  Jon Hindmarsh, Dylan Tutt, Christian Heath
  Department of Management, King's College London, UK.

  Anne Manuel
  Institute for Learning and Research Technology University of Bristol, UK.

  Marie Gibbs and Sally Barnes
  Graduate School of Education, UK.

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• Towards Interoperable Secondary Annotations in the e-Social Science Domain

  Baden Hughes
  Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia

  Desmond Schmidt, Andrew E. Smith
  Key Centre for Human Factors and Applied Cognitive Psychology, University of Queensland, Queensland 4072, Australia

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• Software Replay Tools for Time-Based Social Science Data

  French, A., Greenhalgh, C., Crabtree, A. , Wright, M., Brundell, P., Hampshire, A., and Rodden, T.
  School of Computer Science & IT, University of Nottingham, UK.

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Paper Session 2a: Collaboration

• Memetic: From Meeting Memory to Virtual Ethnography & Distributed Video Analysis

  Simon Buckingham Shum, Michelle Bachler, Clara Mancini
  Knowledge Media Institute & Centre for Research in Computing, The Open University, UK

  Michael Daw, Andrew Rowley, Terry Hewitt
  Access Grid Support Centre, Manchester Computing, University of Manchester, UK

  Roger Slack, Rob Procter
  Social Informatics, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK

  Ben Juby, Danius Michaelides, David De Roure, Tim Chown
  Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK

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• The ECOSENSUS Project: Co-Evolving Tools, Practices and Open Content for Participatory Natural Resource Management

  Andrea Berardi, Savitha Ganapathy, Martin Reynolds, Werner Ulrich
  Open Systems Research Group, Systems Department, Technology Faculty, Open University, UK

  Michelle Bachler, Simon Buckingham Shum
  Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, UK

  Calvin Bernard
  Centre for the Study of Biological Diversity, University of Guyana, Guyana.

  Jayalaxshmi Mistry
  Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK,

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Paper Session 1b: Metadata

• An Infrastructure for Linguistic Data on the Web

  Scott Farrar
  University of Arizona, USA

  William D. Lewis
  University of Washington and California State University at Fresno, USA

  D. Terence Langendoen
  National Science Foundation, USA

   Presentation

  
  
• Global social science data exchange: why do we need data and metadata standards

  Louise Corti, Ken Miller
  UK Data Archive, United Kingdom

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• Using ontologies with case studies: an end-user perspective on OWL

  J. Gary Polhill
  Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

  Gina Ziervogel
  Department of Environmental & Geographical Science,
  University of Cape Town, South Africa

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• A tree full of leaves: description logic and data documentation

  Phil Edwards, Judith Aldridge, Karen Clarke
  University of Manchester, United Kingdom

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Paper Session 2b: Collaboration

• Creating E-Research Communities: The Aotearoa/New Zealand Project

  David Thorns
  Professor School of Sociology and Anthropology University of Canterbury

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• From INWA to INCA: An International Collaboration in e-Social Science

  A.D. Lloyd, V.Maxville, Y. Sun
  Curtin Business School, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia

  A.D. Lloyd
  Management School, The University of Edinburgh, UK

  T.M. Sloan
  EPCC, The University of Edinburgh, UK

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• VOSON: A Web Services Approach for Facilitating Research into Networks

  Robert Ackland, Mathieu O'Neil, Markus Buchhorn
  The Australian National University, Australia

  Russell Standish
  University of New South Wales, Australia

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• e-Enabling Data: Potential impacts on methods and expertise

  Dr Samuelle Carlson, Dr Ben Anderson
  Chimera, University of Essex

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Keynote 2: From Disasters to WoW - Enabling Communities with Cyberinfrastructure

• Prof. Noshir Contractor
  Professor of Speech Communication
  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA

   Presentation

  
  

Paper Session 1c: Data Integration

• ConvertGrid

  Keith Cole, Linda Mason
  MIMAS, Manchester Computing, University of Manchester, UK

  Pascal Ekin
  RSS, Manchester Computing, University of Manchester, UK

  Jon Maclaren
  Center for Computation and Technology, Louisiana State University, USA

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• Development of a Grid Enabled Occupational Data Environment

  Lambert, P.S., Tan, K.L.L, Gayle, V.
  University of Stirling, Department of Applied Social Science, UK

  Tan, K.L.L., Turner, K.J.
  University of Stirling, Department of Computing Science and Mathematics, UK

  Prandy, K.
  Cardiff University, School of Social Sciences, UK

  Sinnott, R.O.
  University of Glasgow, National e-Science Centre, UK

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• Information Portals for the Social Sciences - Integration vs Aggregation

  Maximilian Stempfhuber
  GESIS / Social Science Information Centre (IZ), Bonn, Germany

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Panel Session 1: Collaboration, Computation and Community: Lessons from the music information retrieval community

• J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Matthew J. Dovey, JISC Programme Director for e-Research, UK
• David De Roure, Professor of Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK

Panel Session 2: Social Network Analysis Cyberinfrastructure (SNAC)

• Noshir Contractor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Robert Ackland, The Australian National University, Australia

Friday 30 June

Keynote 3: Is e-social science the future of the social sciences?

• Prof. Peter van den Besselaar
  Head of Science System Assessment
  Rathenau Instituut, the Netherlands

   Presentation

Paper Session 3a: Methods and Tools

• Engaging with the Access Grid as a new data collection tool

  Professor Nigel Fielding,
  Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, UK

  Maria Macintyre,
  Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, UK

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• Beyond the Text: Construction and Analysis of Multi-Modal Linguistic Corpora

  Dawn Knight, Sahar Bayoumi, Steve Mills, Andy Crabtree, Svenja Adolphs, Tony Pridmore, Ronald Carter
  University of Nottingham, UK

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• Talk it up! Integrating traditional telephone research methodologies with emerging e-Social Science tools, methods and practices

  Collette Snowden
  School of Communication, Information and New Media University of South Australia

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• Linguistic-computing methods for analysing digital records of learning

  Richard Forsyth, Shaaron Ainsworth, David Clarke, Pat Brundell and Claire O'Malley.
  School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK

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Paper Session 4a: Social Shaping

• Building Virtual Research Environments and User Engagement

  Annamaria Carusi & Marina Jirotka
  Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Oxford, UK

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• Abstractions, Accountability and Grid Usability

  M. Hartswood, R. Slack, J. Ure and A. Voss
  School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK.

  R. Procter
  National Centre for e-Social Science, University of Manchester, UK.

  J. M. Schopf
  National e-Science Centre, Edinburgh, UK.

  
  
• Introducing Pegasus: An ethnographic research project studying the use of Grid technologies by the UK particle Physics Community

  Will Venters, Tony Cornford
  London School of Economics, London, UK

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• e-Sciences: Infrastructures that reshape the Global Contours of Knowledge

  Ralph Schroeder
  Oxford Internet Institute, UK

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Paper Session 3b: Methods and Tools

• Concept-based Mining to Enhance the Scope and Speed of Archival Qualitative Research

  Andrew E. Smith
  Key Centre for Human Factors and Applied Cognitive Psychology
  The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia

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• Turning the Internet Archive into a New Cybertool for Social Science Research

  William Arms, Dan Huttenlocher, Jon Kleinberg
  Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, USA

  Michael Macy, David Strang
  Department of Sociology, Cornell University, USA

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• Bring the lab to the cities: experiences from two Dutch living labs

  Ingrid Mulder, Daan Velthausz, Patrick Strating, Henri ter Hofte
  Telematica Instituut, Enschede, The Netherlands

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• Working with Digital Records: Developing Tool Support

  Andy Crabtree, Andy French, Chris Greenhalgh, Tom Rodden and Steve Benford
  School of Computer Science & IT, University of Nottingham, UK.

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Paper Session 4b: Social Shaping

• Taking the Digital Turn in Narrative Studies

  John Given
  Northumbria University, UK

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• Multi-disciplinary research into new technologies: collaboration and breakdown

  Annamaria Carusi
  Oxford University Computing Laboratory

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• Using Domain analysis and Organisational Theory to Understand e-Science Sustainability

  Dr Jenny Fry
  Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

  Professor Mike Thelwall
  Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group, School of Computing & Information Technology, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

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Paper Session 3c: Simulation Modelling

• sabreR: Grid-enabling the analysis of multi-process random effect response data in R

  Daniel Grose, Rob Crouchley, Ties van Ark
  University of Lancaster

  Rob Allan, John Kewley, Adam Braimah
  CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory

  Mark Hayes
  University of Cambridge

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• A Synthetic Demographic Model of the UK Population: Methods, Progress and Problems

  Mark Birkin, Andy Turner and Belinda Wu
  School of Geography, University of Leeds

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• Improving Effectiveness of Communications Sampling of Covert Networks

  Maksim Tsvetovat
  George Mason University, USA

  Kathleen M. Carley
  Carnegie Mellon University, USA

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• Developing Grid enabled spatial regression models

  Richard Harris, Min hua Jen, David Kilham, Edward Thomas
  School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, UK

  Chris Brunsdon, Claire Jarvis
  Department of Geography, University of Leicester, UK

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• Assisted Model Building in the Social Sciences using Data Driven Simulation

  Peter Lee, Ed Ferrari
  Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham, UK

  Catriona Kennedy, Georgios Theodoropoulos
  School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK

  Chris Skelcher
  Institute for Local Government Studies, School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham, UK

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Paper Session 4c: Confidentiality

• Developing confidential Data Enclaves for Statistical Data

  Norman Bradburn
  Senior Fellow Education & Child Development Department

  Randy Horton
  Director of Development, Technology Services Information Technology Department

  Julia Lane
  Senior Vice President Economics, Labor, and Population Studies Department

  Michael Tilkin
  Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer Information Technology Department

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• Patient Record Data: Disclosure Control for Grid Based data Access

  M. Elliot, K. Purdam, D. Smith
  Cathie Marsh Centre, University of Manchester

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• A Distributed Search Infrastructure for Statistical Disclosure Control on a Grid

  K. R. Mayes, A. M. Manning, J. R. Gurd
  Centre for Novel Computing, School of Computer Science,
  University of Manchester

  M. J. Elliot
  Centre for Census and Survey Research,
  University of Manchester.

  D. Haglin
  Department of Computer and Information Sciences,
  Minnesota State University.

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Panel Session 3: Collaboration and Engagement: the use of new technologies across the Teaching and Learning Research Programme and the Applied Education Research Scheme.

• Patrick Carmichael & Catherine Howell, CARET
• Richard Procter, TLRP
• Alastair Wilson & Sanna Rimpilainen, AERS

Panel Session 4: Living Labs for Intelligent Cities.

• Steve Curwell, University of Salford
• Ian Cooper, Eclipse Research Consultants, Cambridge
• Sharon Dawes & Anthony Cresswell, Center for Technology in Government, University of Albany, USA
• Fiona Campbell, Napier University , Edinburgh

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