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Grid Enabled Occupational Data Environment (GEODE)

Principal Investigator - Dr Paul Lambert (paul.lambert@stirling.ac.uk)

Co-Principal Investigators - Dr Vernon Gayle, Prof, Ken Prandy, Dr Richard Sinnott, Prof. Ken Turner

Start Date - October 2005

Duration - 18 months

Location - University of Stirling

Website - http://www.geode.stir.ac.uk/

A Grid enabled internet portal will be explored in order to facilitate the processing of occupational data from social survey and related outputs. The portal will utilise a number of features which are uniquely enhanced by e-Social Science (ESS) technologies. Its prospective features will include the generation and provision of automated data confrontation and management programs which allow lay users to understand and link their 'raw' data with a variety of sociological occupational classification schemes; the development of a virtual network acting as an international 'depository' of occupational information; and the exploration of operations which may facilitate the further computation of occupationally based social classification schemes for new versions of international occupational data. The portal will utilise the array of existing occupational classification resources developed for over 20 countries under the 'CAMSIS' (Cambridge Social Interaction and Stratification Scales') project, and contribute to the continued development of these resources. The implementation of the portal will involve the investigative application of e-Science technologies and their potential exposure of a large audience of social science practitioners.

Presentations

Data Curation Standards and the Messy World of Social Science Occupational Information Resources
P. Lambert, K. Tan, V. Gayle, University of Stirling
R. Sinnott, University of Glasgow
K. Prandy, Cardiff University
2nd International Digital Curation Conference, Glasgow, 21 -  22 November, 2006.

Presentation

GEODE - Sharing Occupational Data Through The Grid
K. Tan, V. Gayle, P. Lambert, K. Turner, University of Stirling
R. Sinnott, University of Glasgow
AHM 2006, Nottingham, 18 - 21 September 2006

Presentation

The Importance of Specificity in Occupation Based Social Classifications
P. Lambert, K. Tan, V. Gayle, K. Turner, University of Stirling
K. Prandy, Cardiff University
Cambridge Social Stratification Research Seminar, Cambridge, 10 - 12 September, 2006

Presentation

Utilising a Grid Enabled Occupational Data Environment
P. Lambert, K. Tan, K. Turner, V. Gayle, University of Stirling
K. Prandy, Cardiff University
R. Sinnott, University of Glasgow
16th World Congress of the International Sociological Association (Reseach Committee 33 on Logic and Methodology in the Social Sciences), Durban, South Africa, 23 - 29 July, 2006

Presentation

Development of a Grid Enabled Occupational Data Environment
P. Lambert, K. Tan, V. Gayle, K. Turner, University of Stirling
K. Prandy, Cardiff University
R. Sinnott, University of Glasgow
2nd International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester, 28 - 30 June 2006

Presentation

Publications

The Importance of Specificity in Occupation Based Social Classifications
P. Lambert, K. Tan, V. Gayle, K. Turner, University of Stirling
K. Prandy, Cardiff University
Submitted to International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

Grid Computing for Virtual Organizations: An E-Social Science Case Study
K. Turner, P. Lambert, K. Tan, V. Gayle, University of Stirling
R. Sinnott, University of Glasgow
K. Prandy, Cardiff University
E. Bihagen, Stockholm University
M. van Leeuwen, International Institute for Social History, The Netherlands
In ' Encyclopaedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations' forthcoming 2007

GEODE - Sharing Occupational Data Through The Grid
K. Tan, V. Gayle, P. Lambert, K. Turner, University of Stirling
R. Sinnott, University of Glasgow
Published in the Proceedings of AHM 2006, Nottingham, 18 - 21 September, 2006

Development of a Grid Enabled Occupational Data Environment
P. Lambert, K. Tan, V. Gayle, K. Turner, University of Stirling
K. Prandy, Cardiff University
R. Sinnott, University of Glasgow
Published in the Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester, 28 - 30 June 2006

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