[InetBib] CfP: 5th International Conference on e-Social Science, 24th - 26th June 2009, Cologne

["Ohly, H. Peter" <peter.ohly@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.ncess.ac.uk/conference-09/


5th International Conference on e-Social Science


Submission and Deadlines

Submissions can be made here: https://www.conftool.net/ncess2009/

Long/Short Papers: Deadline extended - 2 February 2009

Workshop, Tutorial & Panel Outlines: 23 February 2009

Poster Abstracts/Demo Outlines: 23 March 2009

Find out more details on deadlines below.

The 5th International Conference on e-Social Science will be held at
Maternushaus in Cologne on 24th - 26th June 2009.

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.

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

Submission requirements for full and short papers, posters and demos

Authors are requested to submit an abstract of approximately 1000 words.

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. The full programme committee list can be found
here: http://www.ncess.ac.uk/conference-09/committee/

Accepted full and short papers will be published in the conference
proceedings.

Templates for the camera-ready copies are available:
http://www.ncess.ac.uk/conference-09/paper-template%20(2).doc


The maximum length for Long Papers is 10 pages and the maximum length
for Short Papers is 6 pages.

Poster Instructions (doc)
Submission requirements for workshops, tutorials and panels are
available:
http://www.ncess.ac.uk/conference-09/poster%20instructions.doc

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

Papers can now be submitted via the following link:
https://www.conftool.net/ncess2009/
Submission Type         Abstract Deadline       Notification    Final
submission
Long paper abstracts    extended:  2 February 2009      w/c 2 March 2009
11 May 2009
Short paper abstracts   extended: 2 February 2009
        w/c 2 March 2009        11 May 2009
Workshop, Tutorial & Panel Outlines     23 February 2009        w/c 2
March 2009      18 May 2009
Poster abstracts        23 March 2009   w/c 6 April 2009        18 May
2009
Demo outlines   23 March 2009   w/c 6 April 2009        18 May 2009