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- Research & Development
- Geographic Simulation
- Semantic Web
- Social Shaping
- Understanding New Forms of Digital Records (Digital Records)
- Video Annotation
- Quantitative Research
- Data Management
- Obesity e-Lab
- LifeGuide
- GENeSIS
- Hub Research
- Use and Relevance of web2.0 for researchers
- Adoption of e-Research Technologies: from prototype to commodity
- Adaptive Visualisation Tools for e-Science Collaboration (ADVISES)
- ID Cards
- Accelerating Transition to Virtual Research Organisation in Social Science (AVROSS)
- Collaborative Research Events on the Web (CREW)
- Uptake of e-Research in Taiwan and the UK
- e-Uptake: Enabling Uptake of e-Infrastructure Services
- eIUS: e-Infrastructure Use Cases and Service Usage Models
- International Collaboration to Extend and Advance Grid Education (ICEAGE)
- StORe (Source-to-Output Repositories)
- Social and Ethical Issues in e-Health Technologies
- NeuroGrid
- Text Mining
- EUAsiaGrid
- Meeting Memory Technology Informing Collaboration (MEMETIC)
- Use and Relevance of web2.0 for researchers
- Small Grant Projects
- Pilot Demonstrator Projects
- e-infrastructure
Accelerating Transition to Virtual Research Organisation in Social Science (AVROSS)
The purpose of this study is to provide the European Commission with a comprehensive overview of recent adoption of e-Infrastructure in the social sciences and humanities, to identify supportive factors as well as barriers and, last but not least, to develop recommendations for EC policy making in this area.
For the purposes of the AVROSS study, e-Infrastructure is defined as integrated ICT-based research and learning resources. It embraces networks, grids, large scale computing resources, data centres, advanced tools for data analysis, visualisation, collaborative environments, and can include supporting operations centres, service registries, single-sign on, certificate authorities, training and help-desk services. Most importantly, it is the integration of these that defines e-Infrastructure.
The analytical work includes a survey of early adopters and enthusiasts of e-social science, collecting data on identified projects, and a number of case studies on successful e-Infrastructure projects, i.e. projects or domain-wide initiatives which have been successful in rolling out e-Infrastructure tools and applications to user communities in science.
The AVROSS final report can be found on the project website.
Principal Investigators
Franz Barjak, School of Business, University of Applied Sciences NWCH, Switzerland
Simon Robinson, Empirica GmbH, Bonn, Germany
Julia Lane, National Opinion Research Centre (NORC), University of Chicago, USA
Rob Procter, National Centre for e-Social Science, University of Manchester, UK
Coordinator
Franz Barjak, School of Business, University of Applied Sciences NWCH, Switzerland (franz.barjak @ fhnw.ch)
Start date
1st November 2006
Duration
13 months