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Web Semantics in Action: Web 3.0 in e-Science Call for Papers | Source: Internal
Date of release: 12 August 2009
Description: Semantic Web technologies have moved beyond the point of being promising futuristic technologies and demonstration projects, to being technologies in action in realistic contexts and conditions. Semantic Web applications are being developed for many aspects of scientific research, from experimental data management, discovery and retrieval, to analytic workflows, hypothesis development and testing, to research publishing and dissemination.
Chairs:
Annamaria Carusi, OeRC, University of Oxford

Tim Clark, Harvard Medical School and Massachussets General Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease

M. Scott Marshall, University of Amsterdam, & co-chair of HCLS

Semantic Web technologies have moved beyond the point of being promising futuristic technologies and demonstration projects, to being technologies in action in realistic contexts and conditions. Semantic Web applications are being developed for many aspects of scientific research, from experimental data management, discovery and retrieval, to analytic workflows, hypothesis development and testing, to research publishing and dissemination.

This workshop intends to explore the questions that arise as Semantic Web applications are increasingly grounded within the actual lifecycle of scientific research, from observation and hypothesis formulation to publication, dissemination and criticism. We aim to bring together researchers across the disciplines, to discuss the use, development and embedding of these technologies in varied research domains and contexts. We will discuss the actuality of Semantic Web technologies in use and the emergent practices through which they are being developed and deployed. We aim to encourage vigorous discussion around aims, methods, applications and pragmatics.

This workshop will look at the theoretical, methodological and pragmatic issues of grounding the development, deployment and evolution of ontologies and applications in Semantic e-Science in practical scientific problems and activity. How do we ground deductive Semantic Web information management and retrieval in the practical conditions of evolving sciences based on experiment, observation and induction? How do we bridge gaps and conflicts in approach between computer scientists developing research tools, and research practitioners using those tools? Is it possible to develop Semantic Web practices in e-Science that deal explicitly with hypothesis formulation, testing, challenge and refinement?

Semantic Web applications have the potential to substantially accelerate research. Are all domains of research equally promising for the development of targeted semantic web applications? Are “semantic” domains defined by particular areas of research, by a particular form of scientific question, by discipline or sub-discipline or by particular aspects or stages of the scientific process? Are there types of enquiry which are intractable to the solutions offered by the Semantic Web, and if so, why? What are the specific challenges of Semantic Web applications in different disciplines, and how might Semantic Web applications shape and be shaped by them?

The incorporation of semantic technologies with existing social web practices – “Web 3.0” – promises to change the scientific research, publication and discussion model we now have to a much more fluid, “higher-velocity” model. It also poses many questions for technologists and researchers alike.

Can abstract and formal understandings of the underlying ontologies be supplemented or even replaced by more informal social conceptions of ontologies? What are the advantages and disadvantages of top-down or bottom-up development processes? What are best practices regarding user engagement and usability; what are the different roles of stakeholders in the process of development and deployment? What if any changes in scientific practice may be required to exploit the promise of semantic e-Science?

Suggested topics include but are not limited to the following:

* Semantic Web applications in use by researchers in specific domains with issues raised and lessons learned in practice;
* Requirements engineering for Semantic Web;
* Spectrum and evolutionary models of ontology development;
* Relations in practice between taxonomies, vocabularies, and ontologies; formal versus informal ontologies;
* Social studies of Semantic Web in action;
* Activity theory and other HCI approaches as applied to Semantic Web.
* Semantics of things, processes and discourse;
* Formal approaches to ontology development in e-Science, and practical outcomes;
* Research questions, methods and methodologies particularly suited or unsuited to being addressed by semantic web applications;
* Semantics of Hypotheses, evidence and relationships;
* Humanities and e-Social Science approaches and applications in Semantic Web.

500 word proposals are invited, on any one of these topics or a related topic. Proposals should reach us by September 1, 2009, and should be sent to annamaria.carusi@oerc.ox.ac.uk or tim_clark@harvard.edu.

Programme Committee will include:

Anita de Waard (Elsevier)

William Hayes (Biogen Idec)

Dave Randall (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Simon Buckingham Shum (Open University / Knowledge Media Institute)

David Shotton (University of Oxford)

Susie Stephens (Johnson & Johnson)

Mark Wilkinson (University of British Columbia)
Author: Prof. Peter Halfpenny Category: General Centre: NCeSS Hub

Networking at the 5th International Conference on e-Social Science | Source: Internal
Date of release: 22 June 2009
Description: 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/ . Signing up only take a few minutes. If you have any problems with the site you can contact Farzana (farzana.latif@ncess.ac.uk) before, during and after the conference. If you have a blog, use twitter or any other networking tool you can add these to your profile. Don?t forget to use the conference tag in all your references to the conference: #essConf09
Author: Farzana Latiff Category: General Centre: NCeSS Hub

All Hands Meeting theme, 'Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities | Source: Internal
Date of release: 12 June 2009
Description: Abstracts are invited for the 2009 All Hands Meeting theme, 'Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities'. UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2009 Past, Present and Future Monday 7th - Wednesday 9th December 2009, Oxford, UK
Abstracts are invited for the 2009 All Hands Meeting theme, 'Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities'.
Not least by virtue of their diversity of research orientations, methods and practices, the social science, arts and humanities present distinctive challenges for the exploitation of e-Infrastructure. In order to identify these challenges more clearly and determine how we might respond to them, we invite contributions from members of the social science, arts and humanities research communities with experience of, or interests in: 1) exploring, developing, and applying new, e-Infrastructure-enabled methods and practices to advance social science, arts and humanities research and practice; and 2) studying issues impacting on their wider take-up.

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following:
* Advances in social sciences, arts and humanities research and practice enabled by e-Infrastructure
* Innovations in research methods, practices and tools in social science, arts and humanities
* Computational methods which encourage and foster interdisciplinarity across the social sciences, arts and humanities
* Challenges and solutions for the development of advanced research data infrastructure in social science, arts and humanities
* Case studies of barriers and enablers in the adoption of e-Infrastructure in social science, arts and humanities

Author: Katy Middlebrough Category: General Centre: NCeSS Hub

Congratulations to Mike Batty | Source: Internal
Date of release: 19 May 2009
Description: We are delighted to announce that Mike Batty has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, which is a major honour. Mike was Principal Investigator of GeoVUE, one of the NCeSS first phase Nodes, and is Co-Principal Investigator of the GENeSIS second phase Node.
Author: Prof. Peter Halfpenny Category: General Centre: NCeSS Hub

Call for Papers for 5th International Conference on e-Social Science Workshop | Source: Internal
Date of release: 23 April 2009
Description: Calls for papers for 2 workshops at the 5th International Conference on e-Social Science are now out:
http://www.ncess.ac.uk/conference-09/workshopsandtutorials/scientific_communication/
and
http://www.ncess.ac.uk/conference-09/workshopsandtutorials/socialsurvey
Author: Kenny Baird Category: General Centre: NCeSS Hub

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