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Workshop on Fostering e-Infrastructure: from user-designer relations to community engagement
In Association with eSI Thematic Programmes: Adoption of e-Research Technologies and e-Science in the Arts and Humanities
as well as the e-Uptake Project and the ESRC e-Infrastructure for the Social Social Sciences project
08th May 2008 13:00 - 09 May 2008 17:00
e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh
Organisers:
Alex Voss, Rob Procter, June Finch (NCeSS, University of Manchester, UK)
Tobias Blanke (AHeSSC, King's College, UK)
Tom Rodden (University of Nottingham, UK)
Contents |
Workshop Programme
Thursday 8th May
| 13:00 - 13:45 | Welcome, Introduction & Review of Agenda (Alex Voss) |
| 13:45 - 14:15 | Motivating talk: who is the community anyway, what do we want from them and why should they be interested??? (Alex Voss) |
| 14:15 - 15:00 | Discussion |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | NGS Community Engagement Activities (Gillian Sinclair) |
| 16:00 - 16:45 | Dicussion |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Wrap up of the day (Tobias Blanke) |
| 19:30 - | Dinner at the Tempus Bar at the George Hotel |
Friday 8th May
| 09:30 - 10:00 | OSSWatch (Ross Gardler) |
| 10:00 - 10:45 | Discussion |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Community Engagement Activities in the CREW VRE project (Meik Poschen) |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Discussion |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 - 13:45 | The e-Uptake Project - early results (Elpiniki Fragkouli) |
| 13:45 - 14:15 | The ENGAGE Initiative (Nei Chue Hong and Chris Brown) |
| 14:15 - 15:00 | Discussion |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Discussion and Wrap Up |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Coffee & Departures |
Questions / Discussion points
- What do we already know? Do we have some baseline information?
- What is the state of adoption in the Arts & Humanities and the Social Sciences?
- Do these communities face particular challenges?
- What can we say about the overall requirements?
- What can we say about the costs, benefits and risks involved?
- What have we learned from our community engagement activities so far?
- How have we identified members of the community?
- How have we selected suitable candidate respondents?
- What response rates did we achieve?
- How can we improve our approaches?
- What opportunities and challenges exist for our efforts?
- How can we make community engagement scale and how can we make it sustainable?
- Can we achieve a bottom-up, self-sustaining community process?
- How can we map the activities in different communities and follow their development over time?
- What role can/should e-Science centres play?
- What human resources do we need to foster communities?
- Could it be 'brokers' or 'community hunters'?
- If such facilitators are needed, what are the roles and good conducts for them?
- Do we have enough human resources for now? If not, how do we improve the capacity?
Contact
If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please contact:
Alex Voss at the National Centre for e-Social Science, University of Manchester, Arthur Lewis Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, +44 161 275 1384, [1]
If you have any queries regarding bookings and the local organisation of the event, please contact the conference administrator at the e-Science Institute
 [e-Uptake] |
