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Programme

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Wednesday 18th June, Manchester Conference Centre (Directions)
09:00 - 17:00	Tutorial 1: Writing Ontologies in the Web Ontology Language (OWL) Session Chair: Georgina Moulton and Robert Stevens Conference Room 3
09:00 - 13:00	Tutorial 2: Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks (VOSON) Session Chair: Dr. Robert Ackland Boardroom 6
09:00 - 17:00	Tutorial 3: Designing and Sharing Workflows with Taverna and myExperiment Session Chair: Katy Wolstencroft Room: Syndicate C/D
09:00 - 17:00	Workshop 1: Research 2.0 Session Chair: Dr. Yuwei Lin Weston Room 2
09:00 - 13:00	Workshop 2: Text mining and the social sciences Session Chair: Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining, University of Manchester Conference Room 6
14:00 - 17:00	Workshop 3: Data management through e-Social Science Session Chair: Paul Lambert Conference Room 5
14:00 - 17:00	Workshop 4: Mapping e-Social Science and Community Engagement Session Chair: Alex Voss Conference Room 6
09:00 - 17:00	Workshop 5: Agent-Based Modelling for the Spatial-Social Sciences Session Chair: Mike Batty Conference Room 4/4a
Social Event
18:30 - 21:00	Wine Reception and Food, Manchester Museum of Science and Industry

Thursday 19th June, Manchester Conference Centre
09:00	Welcome: Peter Halfpenny
09:05	Keynote 1: Professor Wolfgang Gentzsch, DEISA, Duke, and RENCI
10:00	Paper Session 1a: Barriers and enablers of e-Infrastructure Weston Lecture Theatre	Paper Session 2a: Quantitative Methods Weston Room 2
	Accelerating Transition to Virtual Research Organization in Social Science (AVROSS): the results of a study for the EC Franz Barjak, University of Applied Sciences NWCH	Dynamic Social Simulation Models Enabled by e-Research Mark Birkin, University of Leeds
	Widening Uptake of e-Infrastructure Services Alex Voss, National Centre for e-Social Science	Some New Grid Enabled Tools for Quatitative e-Social Science Robert Crouchley, Lancaster University
11:00	Coffee Break
11:30	Paper Session 1b: Social shaping of e-Infrastructure Weston Lecture Theatre	Paper Session 2b: Research tools Weston Room 2
	Technology use across a campus: An analysis of the uptake of ICT across faculties within a single University Nick Pearce, Lancaster Univeristy	A Methodological Quest for Studying Interactions in Advanced Video Conferencing Environments Mary Katherine Allan, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
	The World Wide Web of Research and Access to knowledge Eric Meyer, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford	Access Grid Anywhere Tobias Schiebeck, University of Manchester
	The Diffusion of e-Research: The Use and Non-Use of Advances in Information and Communication Technologies Bill Dutton , Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford	e-Social Science for Free/Libre Open Source Software Researchers Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University, US (Short Paper)
		Lost in Reality - The Case for Virtual Safe Settings Mustafizur Rahman, University of Oxford (short Paper)
13:00	Lunch
13:00	Poster Session 1
	ENGAGE: Engaging Research with e-Infrastructure Neil Philippe Chue Hong and Christopher Brown
	Open Data Utilities in a Web 2.0 Envirmonment Stuart Macdonald
	UK e-Science Infrastructure for Social Scientists Gillian Sinclair, National Grid Service
	The Erasmus Computing Grid, Resource sharing at public funded organizations Luc V.de Zeeuw Tobias A. Knoch
14:00	Keynote 2: Professor Craig Calhoun, President, Social Science Research Council, University Professor of the Social Sciences, New York University
15:00	Panel Session : 'e-Science - where next?' Panel members: Malcolm Atkinson, Craig Calhoun and Wim Jansen.
16:00	Coffee Break
16:30	Paper Session 1c: Social shaping of e-Infrastructure	Paper Session 2c: Research Tools
	A case study about how e-Infrastructure is used within the Social Sciences Mercedes Arguello Casteleiro, National Centre for e-Social Science	The experience of using Digital Replay System for social science research Patrick Brundell, University of Nottingham
	Mapping e-Science's path in the collaboration space: an ontological approach to monitoring infrastructure development Matthijs den Besten, Oxford e-Research Centre	Virtual Worlds: An Exploratorium for Theorizing and Modelling the Dynamics of Network and Group Behaviour Marshall Scott Poole, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
17:30	Close
Social Event
19:00	Conference Dinner, The Lowry Theatre (coaches will depart from the Manchester Conference Centre at 19:00)

Friday 20th June Manchester Conference Centre
09:00	Keynote 3: Dr. Francine Berman, Professor and HPC Endowed Chair, Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego, Director, San Diego Supercomputer Centre
10:00	Paper Session 3a: User requirements and usability Weston Leture Theatre	Paper Session 4a: Exploiting new kinds of data Cockroft Lecture Theatre
	VERA: Virtual Environment for Research in Archaeology Mark Baker, University of Reading	Analysing User Generated Content for social science. Generational "we sense" in the Italian blogosphere Luca Rossi and Giovanni Boccia Artieri, Università di Urbino, Italy (short paper)
	User-centered development of a Virtual Research Environment to support Collaborative Research Events Meik Poschen, National Centre for e-Social Science	Using Facebook as a Data Source and Platform for e-Researching Social Networks Robert Ackland, The Australian National University (Short paper)
		Disability, the Academy and Identity 2.0: Mapping the social experiences of disabled students online Sarah Elizabeth Lewthwaite, University of Nottingham (Short paper)
11:00	Coffee Break
11:30	Paper Session 3b: User requirements and usability Weston Leture Theatre	Paper Session 4b: Exploiting new kinds of data Cockroft Lecture Theatre
	E-Experiences of Social Scientists: Challenges and Opportunities in Embedding e-Research Applications for Communication and Collaboration in the Social Sciences Dimitrina Spencer, Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford	Ethno-Goggles: Supporting Field Capture of Qualitative Material Paul Tennent, University of Nottingham
	Lessons from Developing a Social Networking Site for Scientists Rob Procter, National Centre for e-Social Science	Grid-enabled Data Collection and Analysis - Semantic Annotation in Skills-based Learning David De Roure, University of Southampton
	e-Science Application Development: Analyst and User Perspectives Sarah Thew, University of Manchester	Normative behaviour in Wikipedia Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey
13:00	Lunch
14:00	Paper Session 3c: Knowledge management and data curation Weston Lecture Theatre	Paper Session 4c: Case studies of e-science Cockroft Lecture Theatre
	Developing Ontologies to Support eSocial Science: The PolicyGrid Experience Alison Chorley, University of Aberdeen	Processing everything - lessons from comprehensive automated processing of the UK large scale government surveys Sam Smith, University of Manchester
	Profesional Identity and Knowledge Sharing: A Case analysis of a wiki to support public health professionals. Richard Giordano, Birkbeck College, University of London	Modelling and Simulation for e-Social Science Through the Use of Service-Orientation and Web 2.0 Technologies Paul Townend, University of Leeds
	Markup and Metadata in International Criminal Law Will Lowe, University of Nottingham (short paper)	The Laboratory Blog-Book: How a laboratory blog notebook has developed to support, and in turn has been influenced by, experimental laboratory practice Jeremy G. Frey, University of Southampton (short paper)
15:15	Coffee Break
15:45	Paper Session 3d: Case studies of e-science Weston Lecture Theatre		Paper Session 4d: Social shaping of e-Infrastructure Cockroft Lecture Theatre
	Defining the Role of the e-Social Scientist Paul Tennent, University of Nottingham	Investigating the Potential Uptake of e-Research within a Social Science Discipline: Socio-technical Issues within Library & Information Science Marisa Ponti, Gothenburg University/University College of Borås (short paper)
	Measuring the Impact of e-Research: how to Account for Disciplinary Differences Jenny Fry, Loughborough University (short paper)	Towards Participatory Development of Agent Based Models Catriona Kennedy, University of Birmingham (short paper)
		Content Repositories and Social Networking: Can There Be Synergies? Paul Dolby, Lancaster University
17:00	Close

Social Events

Wednesday 18 June 2008
A drinks reception will be held at the Manchester Science and Industry Museum on the first night of the conference. As well as drinks being served, there will be food, and the opportunity to have a short tour to see 'Baby', the World's first Stored-Program Computer.

Thursday 19 June 2008
The Conference Dinner will be held at the Lowry Theatre at Salford Quays. The meal will take place in the Compass Room, which, situated at the top of the theatre, gives wonderful views of Manchester (and Old Trafford!)

This website is archived and is not maintained. For up to date information on eResearch, go to our NEW Manchester e-Research Centre Site, MeRC http://www.merc.ac.uk

Programme

This website is archived and is not maintained.
For up to date information on eResearch, go to our NEW Manchester e-Research Centre Site, MeRC http://www.merc.ac.uk