Social Science Approaches to e-Science: Framing an Agenda

The e-Social Science research agenda.

In this paper, we use the experience of the first 5 years of the UK Economic and Social Research Council's National Centre for e-Social Science as a basis for reflecting upon the future development of the e-Social Science research agenda.

The Practice of e-Science and e-Social Science

Grid technologies are widely regarded as important innovations for drawing together distributed knowledge workers into virtual communities. After reviewing the developments in e-science, we examine the emergence of e-social science and the potential impact on scientific discovery. Grids are currently in a key developmental phase during which the field of information systems can bring significan...

Social science. Computational social science.

From science to e-Science to Semantic e-Science: A Heliophysics case study

The past few years have witnessed unparalleled efforts to make scientific data web accessible. The Semantic Web has proven invaluable in this effort; however, much of the literature is devoted to system design, ontology creation, and trials and tribulations of current technologies. In order to fully develop the nascent field of Semantic e-Science we must also evaluate systems in real-world sett...

Financial Information Grid –an ESRC e-Social Science Pilot

The large volume of time-varying quantitative and qualitative data available online is needed in a realistic simulation in theoretical econometrics from an academic perspective. And the analysis of such data is strategically important for trading in the financial markets. A distributed environment has been created that offers two services – time-serial and news analysis – using Globus and Java ...