A Semantic Grid for Social Science

Organisers

Dr Pete Edwards & Dr Alun Preece, University of Aberdeen, UK

Programme

The workshop will be organised around an opening invited presentation, followed by a series of position papers discussing aspects of the Semantic Grid for social science; the day will close with a panel discussion. Position papers will reflect experience with Semantic Web or other metadata technologies in the social sciences; be descriptions of ongoing ESRC or other funded research in e-social science/cyberinfrastructure for the social sciences; present challenges to the Computer Science community; reflect on case studies/lessons learnt.

10:00 - 10:10	Welcome & Introduction (Pete Edwards/Alun Preece, PolicyGrid NCeSS Node, University of Aberdeen)
10:10 - 11:10	Semantic Web & Web 2.0 are at least FOAF Carole Goble (School of Computer Science, University of Manchester)
11:10 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 11:55	Building the Data Web Kenneth Miller (UK Data Archive, University of Essex)
11:55 - 12:20	Cloudbuilding: Semantic Imprecision in Social Science Data (and how to live with it) Phil Edwards (School of Law, University of Manchester)
12:20 - 12:45	Grid-Enabled Data Collection and Analysis – Semantic Annotation in Skills-Based Learning David De Roure (School of Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton)
12:45 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 14:25	Challenges for eResearch: The PolicyGrid View Abdelkader Gouaich (PolicyGrid NCeSS Node, University of Aberdeen)
14:25 - 14:50	The Need for a Social Science Ontology to Support Data-Driven Social Simulations Catriona Kennedy (School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham)
14:50 - 15:15	Using Ontologies with Case Studies: An End-User Perspective on OWL Gary Polhill (Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen)
15:15 - 15:45	Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:30	Panel Discussion: "Challenges for the Social Science Semantic Grid" [Confirmed participants: Phil Edwards, Carole Goble, David De Roure, Alun Preece.] Notes from discussion.
16:30	Close.