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5th International Conference on e-Social Science
We have set up a social networking site for the 5th International Conference on e-Social Science to help you find and connect with people at the conference. You can go to it here: http://ess09.crowdvine.com/
This event is being promoted by the International Science Grid This Week Website. You can read more about their activities on their website: http://www.isgtw.org/.
Submissions are now open and can be made here: https://www.conftool.net/ncess2009/
Long/Short Papers: CLOSED
Workshop, Tutorial & Panel Outlines: CLOSED
Poster Abstracts/Demo Outlines: 23 March 2009: CLOSED
Find out more details on deadlines below.
Conference co-chairs: Rob Procter (NCeSS) and Ekkehard Mochmann (GESIS).
The conference is held in collaboration with the German Social Science Infrastructure Services (GESIS). GESIS provides information, consultation and data services to support and facilitate scientific work at every stage of the research process.
Latest News: We are pleased to announce that all three keynote speakers for the conference have now been confirmed. For more details, please visit our keynotes page.
Conference Aims
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.
Topics 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
Instructions for full and short papers, posters and demos
Templates for the camera-ready copies of long and short papers are available here.
Paper templates.(doc)
The maximum length for Long Papers is 10 pages (sides) and the maximum length for Short Papers is 6 pages (sides). Presentation times for long and short papers are:
Long papers: 25 minutes followed by 5 minutes for questions
Short papers: 12 minutes followed by 3 minutes for questions.
Guidelines for posters and demos are here.
Poster Instructions (doc)
Submission requirements for workshops, tutorials and panels
Workshop, tutorial and panel organisers are requested to submit a one page outline of the topic, format, likely audience, special requirements.
Deadlines and submission instructions
Contributions can now be submitted via the following link: https://www.conftool.net/ncess2009/ (Paper submissions now closed)
| Submission Type | Abstract Deadline | Notification | Final submission |
| Long paper abstracts | 2 February 2009: CLOSED |
23 March 2009 | 18 May 2009 |
| Short paper abstracts | 2 February 2009: CLOSED |
23 March 2009 | 18 May 2009 |
| Workshop, Tutorial & Panel Outlines | 27 February 2009: CLOSED | 23 March 2009 | 18 May 2009 |
| Poster abstracts | 23 March 2009: CLOSED | w/c 6 April 2009 | 18 May 2009 |
| Demo outlines | 23 March 2009 : CLOSED | w/c 6 April 2009 | 18 May 2009 |