Fostering e-Infrastructure: from user-designer relations to community engagement

08 May, 08 01:00 PM - 09 May, 08 05:00 PM

e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh

Any slides or other material generated as a result of this event can be found at: www.nesc.ac.uk/action/esi/contribution.cfm?Title=880

This workshop is one in a series of events organised by NCeSS, AHeSSC, OMII and NGS on the establishment of e-Infrastructures for the Arts and Humanities and Social Science communities and would touch on general issues of widening adoption. It will focus on user-designer relations, requirements work, support for communities, training and education requirements and models of access to resources.

We want to focus specifically on ways to get traction in communities like the Arts and Humanities or the Social Sciences that are, by and large, not users of advanced e Infrastructures. The problems that e-Science faces in these areas are arguably of a different nature than in, say, particle physics, environmental sciences or microbiology. While an increased use of e-Infrastructure holds great promise at least in some disciplines, it is still largely optional and the cost, benefits and risks are as yet not fully explored. Consequently, the wider communities have not yet engaged with e-Research to an extent that e-Research would become the norm and that e-Infrastructures would become part of the seen-but-unnoticed fabric of the disciplines’ work.

We would argue that, therefore, the problems of fostering e-Infrastructures for these disciplines go beyond the problems that software engineering traditionally tackles and even beyond most of the work done in design-oriented research traditions like participatory design or participatory design.

Target Audience

This meeting is intended for people involved in e-Infrastructure projects, VRE projects or use-oriented design and design research.

Programme

This event is provisionally scheduled to start at 13:00 Thursday 08 May 2008 and close at 17:00 on Friday 09 May 2008.

A dinner is being held in The George Hotel on the 08 May at 19:30

Accommodation

Assistance with accommodation is offered once you have registered.

Registration for this event is now closed. To enquire about an application or to cancel a previous application please contact NeSC Administration.

Related Links

http://www.e-researchcommunity.org/e-uptake
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/themes/theme_06/

Important Dates

13 Mar - Registration Opens
01 May - Registration Deadline
01 May - Date we will respond to your application by (Please note this is the latest date we will respond to your application. It is normal policy for us to respond within 5 working days where possible.)
08 May - Event Starts at 13:00hrs

Travel

Full details on how to get to the e-Science Institute are available at:

http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/esi_travel.html

Enquiries

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http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/