Cologne, Germany. Image courtesy of Attilio Ivan, sxc.hu

The annual international conference on e-Social Science brings together leading representatives of the social science, e-Infrastructure, cyber-infrastructure and e-Research communities in rder 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 those interested 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.

Submission categories include full and short papers, posters, demos, workshops, tutorials and panels.

Topics of interest include:

- 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

- 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

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

Workshop, tutorial and panel organisers are requested to submit a one
page outline of the topic, format, likely audience, special requirements.

For full submission details and more information, please visit.