h2 {link:4th International Conference on e-Social Science|http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/conference}

h3 People
* {link:Francine Berman|http://www.sdsc.edu/about/Director.html}
* {link:Jeremy Frey|http://www.soton.ac.uk/~jgfchem/}
* [Tobias Schiebeck]
* {link:Sam Smith|http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/staff/sams.htm}
* [Paul Townend]
* {link:People 2008-06-19|http://portal.ncess.ac.uk/access/wiki/site/~a.g.d.turner@leeds.ac.uk/2008-06-19.html#people}
* {link:People 2008-06-18|http://portal.ncess.ac.uk/access/wiki/site/~a.g.d.turner@leeds.ac.uk/2008-06-18.html#people}

h3 Notes

* One Hundred Years of Digital Data
** {link:Francine Berman|http://www.sdsc.edu/about/Director.html}
** Terashake
*** Great amounts of data, modelling and visualisation of the potential effects of earthquakes near the San Andreas Fault.
** Can we capture all the data for study of the US election?
** Data e-Infrastructure from the user perspective
** Communicating with bees :-)
** SDSC have lots of interesting data in a repository...
** Copying data mitigates risk
** Good data infrastructure requires people and other resources
** Fantastic colour photography from hundreds of years ago
*** Light captured on photosensitive material though Red, green, blue and other filters :-)
** BRTF-SDPA
** Data preservation is a BIG issue
** Great :-)

* {link:Virtual Environment for Research in Archaeology (VERA)|http://acet.rdg.ac.uk/~mab/Talks/NCeSS08/Talk.ppt}
** [Mark Baker]
** Silchester
** Two Websites
*** {link:Silchester|http://www.silchester.rdg.ac.uk/}
*** {link:VERA|http://vera.rdg.ac.uk/}
** IADB
** {link:VERA software|http://vera.rdg.ac.uk/software}
** {link:XDB-Arch project|http://xdb.vera.rdg.ac.uk}
*** Wrong URL...
** Usability study has been very useful in developing the tools
** Good work and presentation :-)

* User-centered development of a Virtual Research Environment to support Collaborative Research Events
** [Meik Poschen]
*** http://www.ncess.ac.uk/about_us/people/?centre=&person=11
** {link:Collaborative Research Events on the Web (CREW)|http://www.ncess.ac.uk/research/hub_research/crew/}
*** Plan to use it at the ESRC Research Methods festival

* MoSeS Demo
** Hurray for Paul :-)
** Talked to lady from Edinburgh about the provision and development of mass transit systems
*** I outpined MoSeS to her and she seemed interested :-)

* Policy Grid evaluation
** Eduardo Pignotii
** SAW GEO
** Clementine
** ActiveBPEL
** Kepler

* Normative behaviour in Wikipedia
** {link:Nigel Gilbert|http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/staff/ngilbert/index.html}
** CRESS
** The emergence of norms
** I don't think that entries are made by people who are anonymous
*** I thought it is possible to be anonymous, but the default is that you are not
** Wikipedia pages labelled as "controversial" tend to have very extensive discussion pages.
** Wikipedia has evolved over time from no rules to a set of principals
*** How did these norms and rules form?
*** Can we look at the discussion itself.
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
*** I thought it was pertinent to look at the wikipedia page on wikipedia
*** I looked at the discussion page
*** norms evolution site:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wikipedia
** Recursion abounds and there are discussion pages about discussion
** Future work they are looking at the emergence of Norms in Sec
** Feedback/Discussion
*** This was a great discussion
*** Nigel not looked at the wikipedia page on wikipedia in this study
**** I searched the user pages for norms and emergenceLook at the user pages and discussion pages on these
*** Some users rate others users
*** Kevin made some great point about what is a norm and what is a rule

* Ad hoc with Carroll Blue
** cpblue@uh.edu
** Carroll is doing some geography about a small part of Houston City in Texas USA
*** Developing a GIS based on Google Maps and 
** Working with the Centre for Digital Story Telling, Berkley
** Murmur torronto
** I was confused, we started watching a movie type clip which I thought I'd heard before.
*** I remembered it being from a BBC music program on Detroit...

* Processing everything - lessons from comprehensive automated processing of the UK large scale government surveys
** {link:Sam Smith|http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/staff/sams.htm}
** http://redress.lancs.ac.uk/resources/launch.php?creator=Smith%20Sam&title=Processing%20Everything
** I had planned to come to this but was waylaid 

* Modelling and Simulation for e-Social Science Through the Use of Service-Orientation and Web 2.0 Technologies
** [Paul Townend]
** :-)

* The Laboratory Blog-Book: How a laboratory blog notebook has developed to support, and in turn has been influenced by, experimental laboratory practice
** {link:Jeremy Frey|http://www.soton.ac.uk/~jgfchem/}
** ChemTools
** The pure scientists are way ahead :-)
** Observations are primary and recorded immediately.
** http://www.combechem.org
** Excellent example of how blogging helps change things for the better

* Towards Participatory Development of Agent Based Models
** [Catriona Kennedy]
** {link:Data Chronicles|http://ulyanov.ncess.ac.uk/chronicle}
** Good :-)

* Content Repositories and Social Networking: Can There Be Synergies?
** [Paul Dolby]
** Yes
** {link:Diigo|http://www.diigo.com/}
** Excellent :-)
** {link:Harvesting and Aggregating Networked Annotations (HarvANA)|http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~eresearch/projects/harvana/index.html}
** {link:ReDReSS|http://redress.lancs.ac.uk}
** {link:Learning Space Catalog|http://redress.lancs.ac.uk/Learning_Space/contents_template.php?tool=info&env=web}