4th International Conference on e-Social Science: 18-20 June.

28 May 2008

Registration open, with full workshop details now available.

4th International Conference on e-Social Science - Workshops and Tutorials

The Conference will run from 18 - 20 June 2008 at the Manchester Conference Centre, Manchester, UK. Workshops and tutorials will take place on Wednesday 18 June, with Papers, Keynotes, posters and panel sessions from Thursday 19 to Friday 20 June.

The aim of the conference on e-Social Science is to bring together leading international representatives of the social science, e-Infrastructure/cyber-infrastructure and e-Research communities in order to improve mutual awareness, harmonize understanding and instigate coordinated activities to accelerate research, development and deployment of powerful, new research methods and tools for the social sciences and beyond.

Full details of the workshops and tutorials are now available on the NCeSS website:

Programme

Titles include:

Tutorial 1: Writing Ontologies in the Web Ontology Language (OWL)
Tutorial 2: Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks (VOSON)
Tutorial 3: Designing and Sharing Workflows with Taverna and myExperiment
Workshop 1: Research 2.0
Workshop 2: Text mining and the social sciences
Workshop 3: Data management through e-Social Science
Workshop 4: Mapping e-Social Science and Community Engagement
Workshop 5: Agent-Based Modelling for the Spatial-SocialSciences