CALL FOR WORKSHOP POSITION PAPERS A Semantic Grid for Social Science June 28th 2006 - Manchester, UK A workshop held as part of the Second International Conference on e-Social Science (see: http://www.ncess.ac.uk/) This workshop will focus on the many challenges faced by the social science community to realise the vision of the Semantic Grid to support their research agenda. These include (but are not restricted to): * tools to facilitate knowledge capture and creation of ontologies; * specific domain ontologies and their application (e.g. for social simulation); * mechanisms for capturing provenance/information quality data; * usability issues; * ontologies for describing esocial science services; * ontology alignment/mapping; * social science workflow issues; * ontology support for scientific collaboration ; * ontologies and tools for mapping scientific discourse. Programme/Format The workshop will comprise a series of longer invited presentations, together with shorter position papers on aspects of the Semantic Grid for social science. Position papers can reflect experience with Semantic Web or other metadata technologies in the social sciences; be descriptions of ongoing research in esocial science/cyberinfrastructure for the social sciences; present challenges to the Computer Science community; reflect on case studies/lessons learnt . Position papers (max. one A4 page in length) should be sent to the workshop organisers by email to the following addresses: pedwards@csd.abdn.ac.uk and apreece@csd.abdn.ac.uk Deadline for submission of position papers: Friday, May 26 at 5pm.