e-Social Science 2007

The NSF has teamed up with the UK's National Centre for e-Social Science to host the e-Social Science Conference 2007 this October 7-9, in Ann Arbor, MI.

A Call for Papers has just gone out - suggested topics include:

• Case studies of research methods, aps, and practices enabled by cyberinfrastructures and tools
• Benefits and challenges of large-scale, distributed, collaborative, and interdisciplinary research
• New tools for sociological data sharing, access, security, analysis, and preservation
• Tools for enabling new sources of data and data collection
• Ethical challenges and solutions raised for collection, sharing, and analysis of socioeconomic data
• Case studies of the design and development of e-Research methods, technologies, and tools
  

The UK is ahead of the US on this issue; this year's conference is a big step forward for social science on this side of the pond.