eResearch08: Conference Programme

13:30-15:00

Welcome: Bill Dutton, Brian Loader

Keynote: Stephen Emmott, Response: Dan Atkins

15:30-17:00

Semantic Web

Contractor, deRoure, Goble, Hunter, McLennan: Social Networks, Tagging and the Semantic Web/Grid

e-Research in Higher Education

Zhang: Unseen professional learning mediated by networked technology in an academic context

Pearce: Using technology to enhance research practice: analysing the use of ICT and e-science by academic researchers

Hanke: The Network University: Steps to a Media Ecology of Academic Mind

Access and Usability Issues

den Besten, David: Mapping e-Science's Path in the Collaboration Space: An Ontological Approach to Tracking Infrastructure Development

de la Flor, Jirotka, Spencer, Lloyd: Communicating requirements in multidisciplinary teams

Caraça, Espanha, Mendonça: The Politics of Open Access

Social Parallels between e-Research and e-Government

Robinson: e-Government

Margetts: e-Research for Understanding Government

Dutton, Eynon: The tools of networked individuals: parallel patterns and strategies for governmental and research institutions

17:15-18:45

Web Science

Nigel Shadbolt, Jean-Claude Bradley

Web 2.0 / Social Networking

Darch, Carusi, Jirotka: A climate of trust: perceptions of legitimate authority in a volunteer computing project

Meyer, Schroeder, Power: e-Research 2.0: Taking the Measure of Web 2.0 in e-Research

Williams, Carver, Patfield: Enhancing e-research through the Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network - the Aotearoa / New Zealand experience

Ontologies

Lin, Poschen, Procter, Kola, Job, Harris, Randall, Sharrock, Ure, Lawrie, Rector, Goble: Ontology building as a social-technical process: a case study

Chorley, Hielkema, Pignotti: Supporting Provenance and Argumentation in Evidence-Based Policy Assessment

Grid and Tools Development

Spencer, Lloyd, Jirotka: Project Managers: An Effective Resource for Enhancing Usability?

Koetsier, Prammanee, Hemert: Enabling User Tasks Instead of Focussing on Submitting Computer Jobs

Arguello, Peters, Ekin: Towards a collective Knowledge Base: sharing the expertise acquired on developing Grid-based e-Science and e-Social Science applications

09:30-11:00

Measurements of e-Research

Barjak, Lane, Kertcher, Poschen, Procter, Robinson: Accelerating Transition to Virtual Research Organization in Social Science (AVROSS): the Results of a Study for the EC

Fitzgerald, Austin: Contractual Frameworks for Collaborative Innovation in Australian e-Research

Voss, Asgari-Targhi, Procter, Halfpenny, Dunn, Fragkouli, Anderson, Hughes, Fergusson, van der Meer, Atkinson: Paths to wider adoption of e-Infrastructures services

e-Humanities

Bowman, Crowther, Kirkham, Pybus: A virtual research environment for the study of documents and manuscripts

Burrows, Majocha: Using e-Research Tools to Build a Research Community in the Humanities: the Australian Research Council's Network for Early European Research

Tomkins: Surfacing the Bodleian's John Johnson Collection

e-Collaboration 1: Projects and Initiatives

Goris, Drenthe: Linking scholarly networks and disciplines: A collaboratory in the making

Kok, Dormans: Socio-technological aspects of collaboratories in the social sciences

Sonderegger: Distance collaboration across cultures in R&D

Wals: Circulation of Knowledge and learned practices in the 17th Century Dutch Republic. A web-based Humanities' Collaboratory on correspondences

National Case Studies

Kilner, Gerber, Hunter: Transforming the study of Australian literature through a collaborative eResearch environment

Soon, Park, Lee: The emergence of e-research in Asia, its potential and the realities for the social sciences: Case studies of Singapore and South Korea

Toktomatova, Kazakbayeva: Case Study Of EU Occasion Project Implementation In Kyrgyzstan

11:30-13:00

NCeSS

Baird, Latif, Lin, Arguello: Overcoming barriers to the creation of eLearning materials for GeoVUE' NeoGeographic outputs

Halfpenny, Procter, Lin, Voss: The UK e-Social Science Research Programme: a progress report

Turner: Experience of e-Social Science: a case of Andy Turner and MoSeS

e-Government and Social Services

Wastell, White, Peckover, Hall, Broadhurst, Pithouse: Microworld simulation in childcare social work: investigating risk, blame and performance management

Wilson: 'Integrated Data is the solution! What was the question again?': What sort of information sharing may be fit for Public Service delivery?

Kennedy, Theodoropolous, Skelcher, Griggs, Christian, Humphreys: Towards a participatory infrastructure for research in deliberative democracy

e-Collaboration 2: Theoretical considerations

Schroeder: Towards a sociology of e-Research: The place of distributed collaboration

Meyer: Social and organizational impediments to large scale data sharing

Anderson: Impact of e-science on social science data, methods and expertise

Borgman: e-Infrastructures and data: Reflections on changes in scholarship

Van den Heuvel: Theoretical concerns with collaboratories in the humanities

Paul Wouters: Constructing collaboratories as an interventionist theoretical strategy

Collaboration Tools

Hong, Brown: Engaging Researchers with e-Infrastructure

Wiggins, Howison, Crowston: Replication of FLOSS research as eResearch

14:00-15:30

The Atkins Report and Beyond

Atkins: Five Years after the Atkins Report
Discussant: Anne Trefethen
Chair: Paul Jeffreys

Sociological Approaches

de la Flor, Meyer: Framing e-Research: Understanding e-Research as a Computerization Movement

Pieri: Sociology of Expectation and the e-Social Science Agenda

Lanfrey: Moving from research "through" the Web to research "in" the Web: Methodological perspectives for sociological research

Webmetrics

Thelwall: Web Evidence for the Impact of e-Research: The Case of Linguistics

Artieri, Giglietto, Rossi: Analyzing User Generated Content for social science: Generational "we sense" in the Italian blogosphere

Research Practices

Ferrario: Digital and heritage: vast and not so simple expectations

Weaver, Henty: 'We have just entered the Wright Brothers phase of the digital era': data management and practice in the eResearch era

Lankes, Cogburn, Oakleaf, Stanton: Cyberinfrastructure facilitators: new approaches to information professionals for e-Research

16:00-17:30

Keynote Panel: e-Research, Virtual Witnessing and the Quality of Scholarship

Martin Kemp, Christine Borgman, Steve Woolgar

09:30-11:00

Digital Economy

Trefethen, Darlington, ...: Digital Economy

Transformation or Continuity in Research and Scholarly Communication

Velden, Lagoze: The transformation of scientific communication systems in the digital age: towards a methodology for comparing scientific communication cultures

Carusi, Jirotka: Parameters and visions: dataflows in computational and mathematical biology

Thomas, den Besten, Schroeder: Sustaining e-Science in the interplay between infrastructures and scientific fields: the case of Swiss Bio Grid

Ristic: e-resources for research

11:30-13:00

Century of Information

Jeffreys, Atkinson, Atkins, Borgman, Contactor, Wilks, Brady

Atkinson, Jeffreys: Century-of-Information Research (CIR): a strategy for research and innovation in the Century of Information