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- 5th International Conference on e-Social Science - 24 -26 June 2009 - Cologne.
- The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on e-Research Infrastructure, Applications and Users - 23rd - 27th March - National e-Science Centre, Edinburgh.
- National Grid Service Innovations Forum - 4th-5th November 2008 - Manchester
- Collaborative Computational Project - 24th July 2008 - Manchester.
- ESRC Research Methods Festival 2008 - 30th June to 3rd July 2008 - Oxford.
- 4th International Conference on e-Social Science - 18th to 20th June 2008.
- Surveying 2.0 - Digital Technologies, Market Intelligence and Social Media - 12th March 2008 - Manchester Digital Development Agency.
- Digital Geography in a Web 2.0 World - 20th February 2008 - Barbican, London.
- NCeSS Showcase - 16th January 2008, University of Manchester.
- Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0 - 5 - 6 September 2007, University of York.
- An Introduction to Multivariate Multilevel GLMs using Sabre 5.0 via R and on the Grid - 17 - 19 July 2007, Lancaster University, UK.
- Digital repositories: Dealing with the digital deluge - 5 - 6 June 2007, Manchester, UK.
- International Workshop on VREs and CWEs - 23 -24 May 2007, e-Science Institute, Edinburgh, UK..
- NCeSS Showcase - 27 -29 March 2007, NCeSS, Manchester University, UK..
- The Potential of High Speed Networks as a New Space for Cultural Research, Innovation and Production - 19 March 2007, Kings College, London, UK.
- Induction to Grid Computing and the North West Grid - 25 -26 January 2007, STFC, Daresbury Laboratory, UK..
- Workshop on Combining and Enhancing Data - 22 - 23 January 2007, NCeSS, University of Manchester, UK.
- Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing - 18 - 19 December 2006, King's College London UK.
- User Requirements Gathering for the Humanities - 12 October 2006, Oxford University UK.
- Digital Repositories, e-Research and Portals Workshop - 6 - 7 September 2006, Lancaster University UK.
- NCeSS 2nd International Conference - 28 - 30 June 2006, Manchester University.
- Security and Confidentiality Workshop - 15 March 2006, Lancaster University.
- NCeSS Winter Grid Training School - 27 February - 2 March 2006, Manchester University.
- Knowledge Management and Semantic Services - 25 January 2006, Lancaster University.
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5th International Conference on e-Social Science - 24 -26 June 2009 - Cologne.
Day 1.
- Judith Joseph, Lucy Yardley - University of SouthamptonApplication of the LifeGuide
- Juan Diez-Nicolas - Complutense UniversitySpain's e-Infrastructure Facilities: ASEP/JDS Data Bank
- Richard Topf - Centre for Comparative European Survey DataComparing 'Comparative survey data'
- Bill Dutton - Oxford Internet Institute, University of OxfordThe social shaping and implications of research-centred computational networks: A synthesis of cases
- Kathryn Eccles - Oxford Internet Institute, University of OxfordThe Future of e-Research Infrastructures
- Ann-Sofia Axelsson - Chalmers University of TechnologyNext generation researchers
- Dave Randall - Manchester Metropolitan UniversityWhat about Sea Urchins? Collaborative ontology building among Bio Informaticians
- Andre Somers - Rathenau InstituteChallenges in the development of digital data infrastructures
Day 2.
- Samuel J. Clark - University of Washington, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of the WitwatersrandPerformance evaluation of the Structured Population Event History Register (SPEHR) Relational Schema for Managing Longitudinal Health and Population Data
- Oliver Hopt - GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social SciencesQDDS - Documenting survey questionnaires throughout their lifecycle
- Paul Lambert - University of StirlingStandards setting when standardizing categorical data
- Eric T. Meyer - Oxford Internet Institute, University of OxfordMapping Global e-Research: Scientometrics and Webometrics
- Ralph Schroeder - Oxford Internet Institute, University of OxfordSocial Scientists and the domestication of e-Research tools
- Frederik Lesage - London School of Economics and Political ScienceCareers for Collaboration: Analysing artists' design and use of experimental information and communication technologies using career biographies
- A Chorley - University of AberdeenComputational Support for Policy Arguments
- Alex Voss - NCeSS, University of ManchesterAdoption of e-Infrastructure Services: findings, issues and opportunities
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The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on e-Research Infrastructure, Applications and Users - 23rd - 27th March - National e-Science Centre, Edinburgh - Presentations now being added.
Day 1.
- Mark Baker, University of Reading - A General Introduction to Web 2.0 Technologies and Applications
- Jiten Bhagat, University of Manchester and Mark Borkum, University of Southampton - Practical Web 2.0: Related Technologies and Building Mashups
- Mark Borkum, University of Southampton and Jiten Bhagat, University of Manchester - Practical Web 2.0: A Hands on Journey into Mashups.
- Shirley Williams, University of Reading - Digital Identity
- Hugh Glaser, University of Southampton - Mashups to Meshups and the Web of Data.
Day 2.
- Mark Baker, University of Reading - Introduction to Cloud based computing and outline of Day 2
- Paul Watson, Newcastle University- An Introduction to Cloud-based Services
- Marcel Kunze, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology -The OpenCirrus Project: A Global Testbed for Cloud Computing R&D
- Roger Barga, Microsoft Research - Trends in Internet Scale Computing.
- Ian Osborne, Grid Computing Now! -The Attraction of Cloud to Enterprise, vision and reality.
- Richard Sinnott, NeSC - Cloud-based Security Services
- Doug Neilson, IBM -IBM and Dynamic Infrastructure
Day 3.
- James Stewart, NCeSS - Making Web 2.0 Researchable: Web 2.0 and Scholarly Communication innovation and use
- Eric T. Meyer and Lucy Power -Web 2.0: the Impact of Bottom-Up Research Innovation
- Torsten Reimer, Kings College London - arts-humanities.net from community website to (social) knowledge base?
- Judith Wusteman, UCD - Techniques for Developing Usable VREs
Round table discussion on JISC VREs, their users and the use of web 2.0 technologies
- Claire Warwick, UCL - VERA
- Dave de Roure, University of Southampton - MyExperiment
- John Pybus, University of Oxford - A VRE for the Study of Documents and Manuscripts
- Ruth Kirkham, OERC -Interacting with the Humanities
- Victor Henning, Mendeley -Managing and discovering research papers like music?
Day 4.
- Duncan Smith, UCL -Web-Based Mapping for Sharing and Visualising Geographic Information
- Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago - Montage
- David De Roure, University of Southampton - Success Stories: myExperiment
- Cameron Neylon, RAL -Walking the Walk: The experience of using Web 2.0 tools in active research projects
- Jeremy Frey, University of Southampton -Subjects, Objects and Blogjects: A Data Centric Approach
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National Grid Service Innovations Forum - 4th - 5th November 2008 - Manchester, UK
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Collaborative Computational Project - 24th July 2008 - Manchester, UK - Presentations now being added.
- Peter Halfpenny, NCeSS - Introduction and Aims of the Meeting.
- David Hand, Imperial College - Data Driven Methods and the Requirement for HPCs.
- John Logsdon - Statistical Science and Computational Science.
- Robert Crouchley, Lancaster University - A CCP for (Distributed) Statistical Computing?
- Rob Allan, STFC - HPC, CCPs and the Hartree Centre.
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3rd ESRC Research Methods Festival - 30th June - 3rd July 2008 - St Catherine's College, Oxford -
Day 1.
Session 1: Crossing Boundaries.
- Angela Dale, University of Manchester - Crossing Boundaries: The Lessons from the Research Methods Programme.
- Peter Halfpenny, University of Manchester - Disciplinary and Methodological Mashups: Muddles or Marvels?
- Phillip Lowe, University of Newcastle - The Necessity of Social Scientists Working with Natural Scientists.
- Margaret Wetherell, Open University - Crossing Boundaries: The Lessons from the Identities Programmme.
Day 2.
Session 17: Resources for Supporting the Research Process.
- Intute.
- IBSS.
- Zetoc.
- Copac.
- Archives Hub.
Session 26: Data/Information Visualisation.
- Terry Hewitt, University of Manchester- Introduction to visualisation.
- K. Brodlie, University of Leeds.
- Jeremy Walton, Nag.
- Jonothan Roberts, University of Bangor.
- Martin Turner, University of Manchester.
Plenary Lecture.
- Bob Groves, Michigan State University- Do We Still Need Probability Sampling in
Surveys?
Day 3.
Session 35: e-Research Ethics in the Social Sciences.
- Monica Whitty, Nottingham Trent University - Ethically Studying Online Relationships.
- Tina Miller, Oxford Brookes University - Changing Constructions of Informed Consent: Qualitative Research and Complex Social Worlds.
- Michael Thelwall, University of Wolverhampton - The Ethics of Webmetrics.
- Ralph Schroeder, Oxford Internet Institute - The Ethics of Internet Research.
- Luciano Floridi, University of Hertfordshire - Synthetic Environmentalism.
Session 43: Event History Analysis.
- Rob Crouchley and Damon Berridge, University of Lancaster - Why R? Why SabreR?. Includes a demonstration of running SabreR on the Grid.
- Damon Berridge and Rob Crouchley, University of Lancaster - Multivariate Multilevel Generalized Linear Models. This presentation also links to a Bivariate Linear and Probit demonstration using sabreR.
- Damon Berridge and Rob Crouchley, University of Lancaster - Event History Models. Includes a demonstration using SabreR of renewal models of residential mobility.
- Rob Crouchley and Damon Berridge, University of Lancaster - State Dependence, Unobserved Heterogeneity and Non-Stationarity in Panel Data. Includes a demonstration using SabreR and a dataset on Depression.
Plenary Lecture.
- Charles Ragin, University of Arizona - Redesigning Social Inquiry.
Day 4.
Session 59: Online Resources to Support Research Methods.
- Julie Gibbs and Graham Hughes, University of Surrey - ESRC Question Bank.
- Michael Daw, University of Manchester - Collaborative Research Events on the Web.
- Samantha Cockings and Samuel Leung, University of Southampton - Geo-Refer: GEOgraphical REFerencing Resources for Social Scientists
- David Martin and Kaisa Puustinen, University of Southampton - A vision of the future: ReStoring online resources.
Session 69:Spatial Statistics and Small Area Estimation in the Social Sciences.
- Denise Silva, Philip Clarke, Office for National Statistics - Development of Small Area Estimation at ONS.
- Robert Haining, University of Cambridge - Combining police perceptions with police records of serious crime areas.
- Nikos Tzavidis, University of Manchester - Using M-quantile Geographically Weighted Models to Borrow Strength Over Space in Small Area Estimation.
- Virgilio Gomez-Rubio, Imperial College London - Bayesian Small Area Estimation for policy making and policy assessment.
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4th International Conference on e-Social Science - 18th June - 20th June 2008 - Manchester, UK - Presentations now being added.
Day 1.
Text Mining Workshop.
- Paul Rayson, Lancaster University - Key Domain Analysis: Mining Text in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
- Brian Rea, NaCTeM - ASSERT: Text Mining for Systematic Reviews.
- Eric Atwell and Claire Brierley, University of Leeds -Combining Teaching and Research in Text-Mining from Social and Cultural Data.
- James Thomas, University of London - UK Educational Evidence Portal Requirements for a New Search Engine Using Text Mining.
- Davy Weissenbacher, NaCTeM - ASSIST Project: processing humanities documents with text mining tools.
- Justin Wang, NaCTeM - Intute: Semantic Search Using Text Mining.
Data Management Workshop.
- Paul Lambert, University of Stirling - Introduction to Data Management in the Social Sciences.
- Simon Jones, University of Stirling - DAMES: Data Management through e-Social Science.
- Alison Dawson, University of Stirling - Social care data: exploring issues.
- John Watt, University of Glasgow - Security Approaches and Requirements.
- Aly Hume, OMII-UK - Distributed Data Linking using OGSA-DAI and OGSA-DQP.
Day 2.
Keynote 1.
- Wolfgang Gentzsch, DEISA-2, Duke University - Challenges in Building Sustainable
e-Infrastructures.
Paper Session 2a: Quantitative Methods.
- Mark Birkin, University of Leeds - Dynamic Social Simulation Models Enabled by e-Research.
- Rob Crouchley, University of Lancaster - Some New Grid Enabled Tools for Quantitative e-Social Science.
Paper Session 2b: Research Tools.
- Mary Katherine Allan and David Thorns, University of Canterbury - A Methodological Quest for Studying Interactions in Advanced Video Conferencing Environments.
- Tobias Schiebeck, University of Manchester - Access Grid Anywhere.
- Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University - e-Social Science for Free/Libre Open Source Software Researchers.
- Mustafizur Rahman, University of Oxford - Lost in
Reality:
The Case for Virtual Safe Settings.
Keynote 2.
- Craig Calhoun, University of New York - Convenience or Transformation? What Should Social Scientists Want from e-Social Science?
Paper Session 2c: Research Tools.
- Patrick Brundell, University of Nottingham - The Experience of Using Digital Replay System for Social Science Research.
- Marshall Scott Poole, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - Virtual Worlds: An Exploration for Theorizing and Modelling the Dynamics of Network and Group Behaviour.
Day 3.
Keynote 3.
- Francine Berman, San Diego Supercomputing Centre -100 Years of Digital Data .
Paper Session 4a: Exploiting New Kinds of Data.
- Luca Rossi and Giovanni Boccia Artieri, University of Urbino - Analysing User Generated Content for social science. Generational "we sense" in the Italian blogosphere.
- Robert Ackland, The Australian National University - Using Facebook as a Data Source and Platform for e-Researching Social Networks.
- Sara Elizabeth Lewthwaite, University of Nottingham - Disability, the Academy and Identity 2.0: Mapping the social experiences of disabled students online.
Paper Session 4b: Exploiting New Kinds of Data.
- Paul Tennent, University of Nottingham - Ethno-Goggles: Supporting Field Capture of Qualitative Material.
- John Mcdonald, University of Southampton - Grid-enabled Data Collection and Analysis: Semantic Annotation in Skills-based Learning.
- Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey - Normative behaviour in Wikipedia.
Paper Session 4c: Case Studies of e-Science.
- Sam Smith, University of Manchester - Processing everything - lessons from comprehensive automated processing of the UK large scale government surveys.
- Paul Townend, University of Leeds - Modelling and Simulation for e-Social Science Through the Use of Service-Orientation and Web 2.0 Technologies.
- Jeremy G. Frey, University of Southampton - The Laboratory Blog-Book: How a laboratory blog notebook has developed to support, and in turn has been influenced by, experimental laboratory practice.
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Surveying 2.0 - Digital Technologies, Market Intelligence and Social Media - 12th March 2008 - Manchester Digital Development Agency.
- Abigail Gilmore, Director, Northwest Culture Observatory
and Andrew Miles, Senior Research Fellow, ESRC Centre for Research on
Socio- Cultural Change (CRESC) - Introduction (Window Media Video),
Introduction (Real Video).
Keynote Presentation.
- Roger Burrows, Professor of Sociology, University of York - New Cartographies of Knowing Capitalism and the Changing Jurisdictions of Empirical Sociology.
Think Pieces.
- Steve Coast, Director, ZXV, Founder of OpenStreetMap - OpenStreetMap. Real Video, Window Media Video.
- Mike Rowe, Managing Director, 1000 Heads - New Industry Ethics for Brand Watching and Marketing - Real Video, Window Media Video.
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Digital Geography in a Web 2.0 World - 20th February 2008 - Barbican, London.
- Pablo Mateos, Alex Singleton, Maurizio Gibin, Muhammad Adnan, Jakob Petersen and Paul Longley, University College London - The Global Names Project.
- Maurizio Gibin, University College London - The London Profiler.
- Michael Batty, Yi Gong, Andy Hudson-Smith, Duncan Smith, University College London - Visual Simulation: New Techniques for Modelling Geographical Distributions in Space and Time.
- Richard Milton and Andy Hudson-Smith, University College London - G-map creator and MapTube.
- Rich Harris, University of Bristol, Chris Brundson, Leicester University and Dan Grose, University of Lancaster - Geographical Statistics and the Grid.
- Martin Clarke and Mark Birkin, University of Leeds - Moses: SimCity for Real.
- Gary Priestnall, University of Nottingham - 3D Visualisation: From Lab to Field.
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NCeSS Showcase 16th January 2008, University of Manchester.
- Andy Crabtree and Paul Tennent, University of Nottingham - Digital Records Project (video only - Real Media Format).
- Pete Edwards and John Farrington, University of Aberdeen - PolicyGrid.
- Eric T. Meyer, Oxford e-Social Science node -Social Shaping of e-Research.
- Dylan Tutt, KCL and Muneeb Shaukat, Bristol University - MiMeG node: The Mixed Media Grid.
- Dan Grose and Robert Crouchley, Centre for e-Science, Lancaster University - CQeSS.
- Lucy Yardley, University of Southampton - LifeGuide (video only - Real Media Format).
- Iain Buchan, University of Manchester - Obesity e-Lab (video only - Real Media Format).
- Paul Lambert, University of Stirling - DAMES Project (video only - Real Media Format).
- Michael Daw, University of Manchester - e-infrastructure project (video only - Real Media Format).
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Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0 - 5 - 6 September 2007, York University, UK.
Keynotes.
- Scott Lash, Goldsmiths, University of London - Ontologies - Video (Real Media), Video (Windows Media Video).
Session 1.
- Tobias Escher, Oxford Internet Institute - The relation of Social Networking Sites to physical place - geographic networks.
Session 3.
- Jane Secker and Kris Roger, LSE - Libraries, distance learners and social software: providing social spaces to support learning.
- Paz Pena Ochoa, Santiago, Chile - Education for Public Individuals: the possibilities of web 2.0.
Session 4.
- Alexia Fry, Deakin University - Linking life online: the structure of online linking and knowledge consumption in a globally networked culture.
Session 6.
- Ismael Pena-Lopez, Open University of Catalonia - The personal research portal: web 2.0 driven individual commitment with research diffusion.
- Elisabetta Cigognini, Jose Mangione, Maria Chiara Pettenati, University of Florence - Favouring a critical, creative and ethical use of the network resources through Web 2.0 applications.
Session 8.
- Matthew Rowe, University of Sheffield - Meervisage - A community based annotation tool.
- Daniel Trottier, Queens University - Lateral Surveillance and Social Networking Sites: The case of Facebook.
- Charlene Croft, Mount Saint Vincent University - Which Web 2.0? Why Context Matters.
Session 10.
- Bruce Mason and Sue Thomas, De Montfort University - Tags, Networks and Narrative: Investigating the Use of Social Software for the Study of Narrative Digital Contexts.
- Chiara Fonio, Fabio Giglietto, Romeo Pruno, Luca Rossi and Stefano Pedrioli, ITSTIME - Eyes on you: analyzing user generated content for social science.
- Frances Bell, Beryl Burns, Alison Adam, Marie Griffiths, Briony J Oates and Simon Smith, Universities of Salford and Teesside - Ethical Research and Practice in a Woman's Social Network.
Session 11.
- Nicholas Hookway, University of Tasmania - Entering the Blogospgere; Some strategies for Using Blogs in Social research.
- Camille Roth, University of Surrey - Viable Wikis.
Session 14.
- Francisco Lupianez, Open University of Catalonia - Health and the Internet: still Web 1.0.
- Michael Hardey, Hull/York Medical School - From user to participant: web 2.0 and the transformation of health information.
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An Introduction to Multivariate Multilevel GLMs using Sabre 5.0 via R and on the Grid - 17 - 19 July 2007, Lancaster University, UK.
For more details on the Sabre software and to download it please visit the Sabre web site at http://sabre.lancs.ac.uk.
Day 1.
- Rob Crouchley , Lancaster University - Introduction to Multilevel Multiprocess Models - Video (JAVA Based) , Slides.
- Dan Grose, Lancaster University - Introduction to the R Software - Video (Windows Media Video), Notes.
- Damon Berridge, Lancaster University - Linear Models I: A Two Level Model - Video (JAVA Based), Slides, Notes.
- Damon Berridge, Lancaster University - Linear Models II: Random Intercept Models - Video (JAVA Based), Slides, Notes.
- Damon Berridge, Lancaster University - Multilevel Binary Response Models - Video (JAVA Based), Slides, Notes.
- Damon Berridge, Lancaster University - Multilevel Models for Ordered Categorical Variables - Video (JAVA Based), Slides, Notes.
- Damon Berridge, Lancaster University - Multilevel Poisson Models - Slides, Notes.
Day 2.
- Damon Berridge, Lancaster University - Multilevel Generalised Linear Models (GLMs) - Slides, Notes.
- Damon Berridge, Lancaster University - Three-Level GLMs - Video (JAVA Based), Slides, Notes.
- Rob Crouchley, Lancaster University - Multilevel Multivariate GLMs - Video (Windows Media), Video(RealPlayer), Slides, Notes.
- Damon Berridge, Lancaster University - Event History Models - Video (JAVA Based), Slides, Notes.
- Rob Crouchley, Lancaster University - State Dependence, Heterogeneity and Nonstationarity - Slides, Notes.
- Rob Allan, STFC - Grid Taster - Video (JAVA Based), Slides.
Day 3.
- John Kewley, STFC - Introduction to e-Research and the Grid - Video (JAVA Based), Slides.
- John Kewley, STFC - How to Get Access, Basic Grid Security + Certificates - Video (JAVA Based), Slides.
- John Kewley, STFC - Introduction to GROWL for Sabre-R - Video (JAVA Based), Slides.
- Dan Grose, Lancaster University - Sabre and R on the Grid - Video (Windows Media Video), Slides.
Exercises.
- Damon Berridge and Rob Crouchley, Lancaster University - 1st-Order Model Exercises.
- Damon Berridge and Rob Crouchley, Lancaster University - 2-Level Exercises.
- Damon Berridge and Rob Crouchley, Lancaster University - 3-Level Exercises.
- SabreR data, examples and exercises (11.3Mbyte zip file)
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Digital repositories: Dealing with the digital deluge - 5 - 6 June 2007, Manchester, UK.
Plenary Sessions Only.
- Andy Powell, Eduserv Foundation - The repository roadmap.
- Keith Jeffrey, STFC - Repositories in the research lifecycle.
- Professor James Drummond Bone, Vice Chancellor of the University of Liverpool and President of Universities UK - Repositories, institutions and the UUK.
- Rachel Bruce and Neil Jacobs, JISC - JISC Capital programme.
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International Workshop on Virtual Research Environments and Collaborative Work Environments - 23rd - 24th May 2007, e-Science Institute, Edibnburgh, UK.
Keynote 1.
- Marc Pallot, European Society of Concurrent Enterprising Network - ECOSPACE: Towards an Integrated Collaboration Space for eProfessionals.
Day 1.
- Stuart Dunn, King's College, London - Trustworthy characters: Common issues for VREs and CWEs in archaeology and textual studies.
- V. Hinze-Hoare, D. Argles, R. Walters and G. Wills, Learning Societies Lab, University of Southampton - Supporting collaboration between research teams: issues and tools.
- Rahim Lakhoo and Professor Mark Baker, University of Reading - A Portal-based P2P System for the Distribution and Management of Large Data Sets.
- I. Dolphin, R. Sherratt, C. Awre, S. Jeyes and R.J. Allan, STFC - eReSS: e-Research Standards and Specifications.
- Simon Hodson, University of Hull - VRE for the History of Political Discourse.
Keynote 2.
- Charles Severance, Sakai Foundation - The Coming Functionality Mashup.
Day 2.
- Alex Voss, NCeSS - Designing for Palpability in e-Research.
- David de Roure and Carole Goble, University of Southampton - MyExperiment - A Web 2.0 Virtual Research Environment.
- Marc Pallot, Charles Severance, David de Roure, AnnaMaria Carusi - Panel Discussion.
- X.Yang, R.J. Allan, A. Fish, M. Gonzales, R. Crouchley - Using Sakai for e-Research: Building a Multi-Institution Virtual Research Environment.
- Lydia Lau, University of Leeds - Articulating a Grass-roots View of Research Communities.
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NCeSS Showcase - 27 - 29 March 2007, NCeSS, Manchester University, UK.
Day 1.
- Richard Hopkins, NeSC - Overview of e-Science and Grids.
- Richard Hopkins, NeSC - From Campus Grid to International e-Infrastructure.
- Richard Hopkins, NeSC - Grid Projects and Organisations.
- Keith Cole, MIMAS - ConvertGrid – Data Grids for Social Science Research.
Day 2.
- Paul Dolby, Lancaster University - The ReDReSS Project (Resource Discovery for Researchers in e-Social Science).
- Andy Turner, Leeds University - Andy Turner on MoSeS.
- Edoardo Pignotti, University of Aberdeen - PolicyGrid: Using the Semantic Grid to Support Evidence-Based Policy Appraisal.
- Matthijs den Besten, University of Oxford - Oxford e-Social Science Project.
Day 3.
- Tamas Kiss, University of Westminster - P-Grade.
- Alexander Voss, NCeSS - Uptake and Sustainability of e-Research Technologies.
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ICT Methods Network Seminar, The Potential of High Speed Networks as a New Space for Cultural Research, Innovation and Production - 19 March 2007, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Kings College, London, UK.
- Kelli Dipple, Tate, London - Remote Exchanges and Collaborative Working Methods, Research and Access in High-speed Networks - Windows Media Video.
- Ruth Catlow, Furtherfield.org - VisitorsStudio: From Passive Audience to Networked Co-producers - Windows Media Video.
- Paul Sermon, Salford University - Puppeteers, Performers or Avatars- A Perceptual Difference in Telematic Space - Windows Media Video.
- Thor Magnusson, University of Sussex - Musical Collaboration Over High-speed Networks Windows Media Video.
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Induction to Grid Computing and the North West Grid - 25 - 26 January 2007, CCLRC, Daresbury Laboratory, UK.
Day 1.
- Rob Allan and Richard Hopkins, STFC and NeSC - What is Grid Computing?
- Guy Warner, NeSC - The National Grid Service.
- Rob Allan, CCLRC - The North West Grid.
- Jens Thomas, CCLRC - Introduction to CCP1 GUI demonstration .
- Guy Warner, NeSC - Security, Authorisation and Authentication.
- John Kewley, CCLRC - Gaining Access to NW-GRID.
- Richard Hopkins and Guy Warner, NeSC - Creating and Running Applications on the NW-GRID.
Day 2.
- Richard Hopkins, NeSC - Data Services on the NW-GRID. This session was merged with the session on SRB and Grid FTP.
- Dave Meredith, CCLRC - The NGS Portal.
- John Kewley, CCLRC - Growl and Web Services.
- Cliff Addison, University of Liverpool - SCore MPI.
- Rob Allan, CCLRC - Next Steps.
- Rob Allan, CCLRC - NW-GRID - Future Developments.
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Workshop on Combining and Enhancing Data - 22 - 23 January 2007, NCeSS, University of Manchester, UK.
Day 1.
- Ian Diamond, ESRC - Keynote address
- Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Univ. Rovira i Virgili - Data Mining from Multiple Datasets .
- Dimitris Ballas, University of Sheffield - Spatial Microsimulation Approaches to Creating and Updating Small Area Microdata.
- Dean Judson, US Bureau of the Census - Generalised Models for Data Combination: Ideas Toward a Future Research Programme.
- Jerry Reiter, Duke University - Using Multiple Imputation to Integrate and Disseminate Microdata.
- Mark Tranmer and Mark Elliot, University of Manchester, and David Steel, University of Wollongong - The Research Benefits of Combining Individual and Aggregate Census Data.
- Nicky Best, Imperial College London - Bayesian Graphical Models for Combining Multiple Data Sources - Introduction.
- Chris Jackson, Imperial College London - Bayesian Graphical Models for Combining Multiple Data Sources - Case Study.
Day 2.
- Duncan Smith and Mark Elliot, University of Manchester - Disclosure Risk Issues of Combining data.
- Jenny Ure, University of Edinburgh - Data Integration: Nirvana or Pandora's Box?.
- David Steel, University of Wollongong - Discussant Summary.
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Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing - 18 - 19 December 2006, King's College London UK.
Day 1.
- Nicolas Gold and Lorna Hughes, King's College London - Introduction to SOSoRNet and the Methods Network.
- Stuart Dunn , King's College London - Service-Oriented Architecture in Archaeology: a joined up approach to the past.
- Mark Turner, Keele University - Demonstration of the IBHIS System.
- Tobias Blanke, King's College London - A Service-Oriented Workflow for the Ingest and Preservation of Complex Digital Objects at the Arts and Humanities Data Service:Part 1.
- Andreas Mavrides, King's College London - A Service-Oriented Workflow for the Ingest and Preservation of Complex Digital Objects at the Arts and Humanities Data Service:Part 2.
Day 2.
- David De Roure, University of Southampton - Keynote Address: Service-Oriented Computing in the Humanities - What Can We Learn From Other Disciplines?
- Yves Raimond, Queen Mary University of London - A Scalable Framework for Multimedia Knowledge Management.
- Mark Sandler, Queen Mary University of London - The Future for Digital Music.
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User Requirements Gathering for the Humanities - 12 October 2006, Oxford University, UK.
- Ruth Kirkham, Oxford University - Introduction and recap of last conference.
- Tony Brett, Oxford University - Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment (CREE).
- Matthew Mascord, Oxford University - Integrative Biology Virtual Research
Environment (IBVRE).
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Digital Repositories, e-Research and Portals Workshop - 6 - 7 September 2006, Lancaster University UK.
Day 1.
- Rob Crouchley, University of Lancaster - Introduction to the Digital Repositories, Portals and e-Research Workshop.
- Simon Coles, University of Southampton - Digital Repositories as a Mechanism for the Capture, Management and Dissemination of Chemical Data
- Chris Awre, University of Hull - Institutional Management of Portals: Facilitating Portal Use Across Boundaries.
- Frederick Friend, University College London - Institutional or Subject Repository Best For Researchers' Needs?
- Catherine Jones, CCLRC - CCLRC's Institutional Repository: past, present and future.
- Derek Sergeant, Leeds University Library - What Real Researchers Want (from their institutional environment).
- Matthew Mascord, Oxford University - The Integrative Biology VRE Project: How portals and digital repositories can benefit computational biology.
- David Giaretta, CCLRC - Using Unfamiliar Data.
Day 2.
- Rob Allan, CCLRC Daresbury - JISC IE and Portals Meeting the Needs of Research.
- Ann Apps, MIMAS, University of Manchester - IESR: A Registry of Collections and Services.
- Ken Miller, ESDS - What's in StORe: the information grid.
- Peter Millington, University of Nottingham - The New Improved OpenDOAR Directory of OA Repositories.
- David Shotton, University of Oxford - Data Webs: new visions for research data on the Web.
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NCeSS 2nd International Conference - 28 - 30 June 2006, Manchester University UK.
e-Collaboration Workshop - Access Grid, Portals and Other Virtual Research Environments for the Social Sciences.
- Michael Daw, Access Grid Support Centre, Manchester University - The Access Grid Support Centre.
- Martin Turner, Manchester University - Portals and 3D Visualization for Non-Scientific Users.
- Adrian Fish, Lancaster University - The LUCeS Conferencing Tool.
- Michael Daw, Manchester University - Memetic as a Virtual Research Environment.
- Charles Severance, University of Michigan - Collaborative eScience: Evolving Approaches.
- Paul Beckett, University of East Anglia - VRE in the History of Political Discourse.
- Rahim Lakhoo, University of Portsmouth - Video conferencing with NaradaBrokering.
- Paul Watry, University Liverpool - The Cheshire VRE Project.
Keynote 1.
- Malcolm Atkinson, e-Science Institute and e-Science Envoy - Progress with e-Science.
Paper Session 1c: Data Integration.
- Keith Cole, University of Manchester - ConvertGrid.
- Paul Lambert, University of Stirling - Development of a Grid Enabled Occupational Data Environment.
Keynote 2.
- Noshir Contractor, University of Illinios at Urbana-Champaign - From Disasters to WoW: Enabling Communities with Cyberinfrastructure.
Paper Session 2a: Collaboration.
- Roger Slack, University of Edinburgh - Memetic: From Meeting Memory to Virtual Ethnography & Distributed Video Analysis.
- Martin Reynolds, Open University - The ECOSENSUS Project.
Paper Session 2b: Collaboration.
- David Thorns, University of Canterbury - CREATING E-RESEARCH COMMUNITIES: THE AOTEAROA/NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL PROJECT.
- Robert Ackland, Australian National University - VOSON: A Web Services Approach for Facilitating Research into Online Networks.
- Ben Anderson, University of Essex - E-nabling Data: Potential impacts on methods and expertise.
Keynote 3.
- Peter van den Besselaar, Rathenau Instituut, the Netherlands - Is e-social science the future of the social sciences?
Paper Session 3c: Simulation Modelling.
- Daniel Grose, Lancaster University - GRID Enabling the Analysis of Multiprocess Random Effect Response Data in R.
- Mark Birkin, University of Leeds - A Synthetic Demographic Model of the UK Population
- Maksim Tsvetovat, George Mason University - Improving the Effectiveness of Communications Sampling of Covert Networks
- Richard Harris, University of Bristol - Developing Grid enabled spatial regression models.
- Ed Ferrari, University of Birmingham - Assisted Model Building in the Social Sciences using Data Driven Simulation
Paper Session 4b: Social Shaping.
- Jenny Fry, University of Oxford - Using Domain Analysis and Organisational Theory to Understand e-Science Sustainability.
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Security and Confidentiality Workshop - 15 March 2006, Lancaster University UK.
- Rob Crouchley, Lancaster University - Introduction and Welcome.
- Mark Baker, University of Reading - Security Basics.
- Bryan Carpenter, OMII - A Practical Introduction to Web Services Security.
- Jens Jensen, CCLRC - Security and the Grid and Storage - How do you 'secure' your project?
- Sassa Otenko, University of Kent - Policy-driven Authorization.
- Francisco Pinto, University of Oxford - Possible Approaches For Shibboleth Integration.
- Jatinder Singh, University of Cambridge - Architecting CareGrid: Trust in Grid Healthcare.
- Richard Sinnott, University of Glasgow - Advanced Grid Security for End Users.
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NCeSS Winter Grid Training School - 27 February - 2 March 2006, Manchester University UK.
- Richard Hopkins, NeSC - What is Grid Computing?
- Guy Warner, NeSC - The National Grid Service.
- Guy Warner, NeSC - Gaining Access to the NGS.
- Richard Hopkins, NeSC - Creating and running applications on the NGS.
- Richard Hopkins, NeSC - NGS computation services: APIs and Parallel Jobs.
- Guy Warner, NeSC - Next Steps.
- Richard Hopkins, NeSC - NGS Services in the future: Emerging Middleware.
- Guy Warner, NeSC - Data Services on the NGS.
- Richard Hopkins, NeSC - Introduction to The Storage Resource Broker.
- Richard Hopkins, NeSC - Web Services and Grids.
- Guy Warner, NeSC - Introduction to CONDOR.
- Guy Warner, NeSC - Condor Data Access and Workflows.
- Richard Hopkins, NeSC - OGSA-DAI Introduction.
- Richard Hopkins, NeSC - OGSA-DAI Architecture.
- Simon Peters, Manchester University - Gemeda. (The Gemeda project portal can be found at http://pascal.mvc.mcc.ac.uk:9080/gemeda).
- Rob Allan, Daresbury Laboratory - Introduction to Grid Portals.
- Rob Allan, Daresbury Laboratory - Introduction to Grid Portals Part II.
- Rob Allan, Daresbury Laboratory - Introduction to Grid Portals Part III.
- Jennifer Schopf, Argonne National Laboratory, NeSC - Grid Futures - Where Are We Going Next? A Pragmatic Viewpoint.
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Knowledge Management and Semantic Services - 25 January 2006, Lancaster University UK.
- Rob Crouchley, Lancaster University - Introduction and Welcome.
- Alan Rector, Manchester University - Blurring the boundaries between: services, knowledge, information & data.
- Wilbert Kraan, CETIS - Ontological engineering - some applications in the field of e-learning.
- David De Roure, University of Southampton - The Semantic Grid.
- Khurshid Ahmad, Trinity College - Knowledge Management: Terminology and Ontological Commitment.
- Vincent Wade, Trinity College - Knowledge driven adaptive web systems for personalised eLearning.
- Sheila Corral, University of Sheffield - Knowledge Management in Higher Education: Business Models and Institutional Practices
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Information Management and e-Social Science Workshop - 5 October 2005, Lancaster University UK.
- Rob Crouchley, Director Centre for e-Science Lancaster University - Introduction and Welcome
- Phil Couch, CCLRC Daresbury - Information Management Strategies for Computational Chemistry
- Patrick Carmichael, CARET Cambridge - Managing information and data with DSPace and its impact on distributed teaching projects
- Lee Gillam, University of Surrey - Metadata, Terminology and Ontology
- Barry Mahon and Angela Abell, TFPL - The KM Roadmap, A current JISC Project
- Khurshid Ahmad, University of Surrey - The Quality of Social Interaction: Towards an Automatic Analysis of Sentiments in Informative and Persuasive Texts.
- Adrian Fish, Centre for e-Science, Lancaster University - Content Bridging, an Indexing Tool and the Creation of Learning Ladders From Distributed Content.
- Paul Watry and Fabio Corobulo, University of Liverpool - Text and Data Mining, Digital Libraries Information Management, Indexing and Language Processing.
- Andy Powell, University of Bath - JISC IE Architecture, Collections and Registries.
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NCeSS Annual Conference, Portals and VRE Workshop - 22 June 2005, Manchester University UK.
- Rob Allan, Daresbury Laboratory - Introduction - Portals and VREs for Social Research
- Mark Baker, University of Portsmouth - Introduction to Portals and Portlets
- Rob Allan, Daresbury Laboratory - Sakai VRE Demonstrator
- Rob Allan, Daresbury Laboratory - VREs for e-Social Science
- Paul Shabajee, University of Bristol - iugo. (The IUGO project home page can be found at http://iugo.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/).
- Francisco Queiros Pinto, University of Oxford - N-tier Authentication Use-Cases within E-Research Environments
- Charles Severence, University of Michigan - Sakai Update VRE Workshop
- John Norman, University of Cambridge - Sakai VRE for Educational Research
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Quantitative e-Social Science Agenda Setting Workshop - 6 April 2005, Lancaster University UK.
- Jennifer A. Scott, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory - HSL and an Introduction to Sparse Linear Systems.
- Lee Gillam, Department of Computing, University of Surrey - Analysis of Non-stochastic Time Varying Data - FINGRID.
- Mark Birkin, Node Director, University of Leeds - MOSES: Modelling and Simulation for e-Social Science.
- Rob Allan and Rob Crouchley - The UK National Grid Service.
- Rob Allan, CCLRC e-Science Centre and JISC Common Framework Working Group - How to Use the Grid.
- Rob Crouchley, Centre for e-Science, Lancaster University - A Narrow and Personal View on Quantitative Methods and e-Social Science, Without an Agenda.
- Rob Procter, Research Director NCeSS, An Overview of NCeSS.
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Everything you always wanted to know about GRID and never dared to ask - CERN Academic Training Programme 2003-2004 Lecture Series.
These lectures were ran by CERN and were delivered in the context of the CERN Academic Training Programme 2003-04. They have been repackaged by Lancaster University into a synchronised video and PowerPoint format. The original presentations can be found at http://academia.web.cern.ch/academia/lectures/grid/. You can access a significant number of archived lectures from http://www.cern.ch/AcademicTraining/acad0.asp.
- Tony Hey, EPSRC - Origins of the Grid
- Geoffrey Fox, University of Indiana - Grid Technology A: Web Services Globus OGSA & Grid Architecture: Part 1
- Geoffrey Fox, University of Indiana - Grid Technology A: Web Services Globus OGSA & Grid Architecture: Part 2
- Geoffrey Fox, University of Indiana - Grid Technology A: Web Services Globus OGSA & Grid Architecture: Part 3
- Tony Hey, EPSRC - The Future of the Grid e-Science to e-Business