[sem-grd] Workshop: A Semantic Grid for Social Science

[Pete Edwards]

CALL FOR WORKSHOP POSITION PAPERS

A Semantic Grid for Social Science
June 28th 2006 - Manchester, UK

A workshop held as part of the Second International Conference on 
e-Social Science (see: http://www.ncess.ac.uk/)

This workshop will focus on the many challenges faced by the social 
science community to realise the vision of the Semantic Grid to support 
their research agenda. These include (but are not restricted to):

    * tools to facilitate knowledge capture and creation of ontologies;
    * specific domain ontologies and their application (e.g. for social
      simulation);
    * mechanisms for capturing provenance/information quality data;
    * usability issues;
    * ontologies for describing esocial science services;
    * ontology alignment/mapping;
    * social science workflow issues;
    * ontology support for scientific collaboration ;
    * ontologies and tools for mapping scientific discourse.

Programme/Format
The workshop will comprise a series of longer invited presentations, 
together with shorter position papers on aspects of the Semantic Grid 
for social science. Position papers can reflect experience with Semantic 
Web or other metadata technologies in the social sciences; be 
descriptions of ongoing research in esocial science/cyberinfrastructure 
for the social sciences; present challenges to the Computer Science 
community; reflect on case studies/lessons learnt .

Position papers (max. one A4 page in length) should be sent to the 
workshop organisers by email to the following addresses:

pedwards at csd.abdn.ac.uk
and
apreece at csd.abdn.ac.uk

Deadline for submission of position papers: Friday, May 26 at 5pm.