Think Networks

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From Valdis Krebs:

How many NOTs in your network? [NOT = Non-Obvious Tie]

You probably can’t answer that, because the connections are…

n o n - o b v i o u s .

Ties/links/connections/relationships that are not obvious to me may be obvious to someone else, and vice versa. Unfortunately, the knowledge of those ties may not be as valuable to those those who know, than to those who do not know.

Confused? Let me share a few stories…

T N T — The Network Thinker: Non-Obvious Ties.

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

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

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

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.

Deadlines and submission instructions

Paper abstracts: 26 January 2009.

Workshop, tutorial and panel outlines: 23 February 2009.

Poster and demo abstracts: 23 March 2009.

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