e-Social 2009 - The 5th International Conference on e-Social Science

5th International Conference on e-Social Science
http://www.ncess.ac.uk/conference-09/

The 5th International Conference on e-Social Science will be held in
Cologne, Germany on 24th - 26th June 2009. The conference is held in
collaboration with the German Social Science Infrastructure Services
(GESIS). GESIS is an institution devoted to research and service, which,
by providing information, consultation and data, supports and
facilitates scientific work at every stage of the research process.

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CONFERENCE AIM
The aim of the annual international conference on e-Social Science is to
bring together leading representatives of the social science,
e-Infrastructure, cyberinfrastructure and e-Research communities in
order to improve mutual awareness and promote coordinated activities to
accelerate research, development and deployment of powerful, new methods
and tools for the social sciences and beyond.

We invite contributions from members of the social science,
e-Infrastructure, cyberinfrastructure and e-Research communities with
experience of, or interests in:
- exploring, developing, and applying new methods, practices, and tools
afforded by new infrastructure technologies - such as the Grid and Web
2.0 - in order to further social science research; and
- studying issues impacting on the wider take-up of e-Research.

Contributions from professionals working in and with data services to
support research and teaching in the social sciences are especially
welcome. Submission categories include: full and short papers, posters,
demos, workshops, tutorials and panels.

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TOPIC OF INTEREST

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following:
- Case studies of the application of e-Social Science methods to
substantive social science research problems
- Case studies of e-Research, including benefits and problems in
collaboration across organisational, disciplinary and geographical
boundaries
- Case studies of \'Open Access Science\', social networking and \'Science
2.0\'
- Best practice examples of social research data infrastructure,
including virtual distributed databases, open access repositories,
self-archiving
- Advances in tools and services for data discovery, harmonization,
integration, management, annotation, curation and sharing
- Challenges of exploiting new sources of administrative, transactional
and observational data, including security, legal and ethical issues in
the use of personal and sensitive data
- Advances in analytical tools and techniques for quantitative and
qualitative social science, including statistical modelling and
simulation, data mining, text mining, content analysis, socio-linguistic
analysis, social network analysis, data visualisation
- Case studies of collaborative research environments, including user
engagement, development and use
- User experiences of e-Research infrastructure, services and tools
- Factors influencing the adoption of e-Research, including technical
standards, user engagement and outreach, training, sustainability of
digital artefacts, IPR and ethics
- New methods, metrics and tools for measuring the adoption and impact
of e-Research and for informing policy-making
- The evolving research infrastructure technology roadmap, including
grids, cloud computing and web 2.0
- National e-Infrastructure development programmes, international
cooperation in e-Infrastructure development

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SUBMISSION

Authors are requested to submit an abstract of approximately 1000 words.
We will be posting details of where to submit in the next few days.
Please indicate the category of your submission: full paper, short
paper, poster or demo and include the contact details of the main author
on a separate sheet. Demo submissions should include a statement of
technical requirements.

Submissions will be subject to independent review and a final decision
will be made by the conference programme committee. Authors of
submissions not accepted as full papers may be invited to submit a short
paper or poster instead. Accepted full and short papers will be
published in the conference proceedings.

Papers can now be submitted via the following link:
https://www.conftool.net/ncess2009/

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IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline for long paper abstracts and short paper abstracts:
26 January 2009
Submission deadline for Workshop, Tutorial & Panel Outlines: 23 February
2009
Submission deadline for poster abstracts and demo outlines: 23 March 2009
Author notification: 2 March 2009
Final submission: 11 May 2009