Events

Forthcoming events

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Past events

• Digital Social Research: A Forum for Policy and Practice

  Tuesday 13 March 2012 10:00 - 16:00

  This one-day policy forum will bring together leading academics in the rapidly evolving field of Digital Social Research with key thought leaders from business, industry and government interested in the future of research policy and practice.

• Social Science and Digital Research: Interdisciplinary Insights

  Monday 12 March 2012 09:30 - 17:00

  Keble College's Acland Centre, 23 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6PD.

  Technical innovations are enabling scholars to reconfigure how they do their work across all phases of the research process, from discovery to dissemination. What are the implications of this for the foci, quality and significance of research?

• Report Launch: Information Practices in the Physical Sciences

  Wednesday 25 January 2012 17:30 - 20:30

  Franklin Lecture Theatre, Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London, W1B 1NT.

  The Research Information Network, the Institute of Physics and the Royal Astronomical Society invite you to attend the launch of their report "Information Practices in the Physical Sciences" at the Institute of Physics.

• Doing Science in the Open

  Thursday 8 September 2011 12:00 - 13:00

  Work carried out by the Polymath Project suggests that online tools can be used to transform the way we work together to make scientific discoveries. Michael Nielsen investigates why conservatism surrounds the use of such ground-breaking techniques.

• Will the Design of the Future Internet Be Driven by Technology or Societal Concerns?

  Tuesday 28 June 2011 17:00 - 18:30

  Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College, Oxford OX2 6HS.

  As the Internet becomes an increasingly essential part of the infrastructure of modern life, this debate explores whether its design should be controlled and regulated, or whether concerns over creativity and freedom are paramount.

• The Future Internet: The Social Nature of Technical Choices

  Tuesday 28 June 2011 10:00 - 16:00

  Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College, Oxford OX2 6HS.

  This workshop will discuss how technology developments are encountering socio-economic realities. Particular attention will be given to approaches that facilitate the creation of multidisciplinary networks of collaboration and knowledge exchange.

• JANET: The early days - 1973 to 1983

  Monday 20 June 2011 17:00 - 18:30

  JANET is now widely recognised as one of the world's leading research and education networks. But what were its origins and what are the enduring legacies from those early days?

• Digital Impacts: How to Measure and Understand the Usage and Impact of Digital Content

  Friday 20 May 2011 09:30 - 16:00

  Jesus College, Ship Street Centre Lecture Theatre, Oxford

  This workshop calls researchers, librarians, funding representatives and others interested in understanding the impact of distributing materials online.

• Visualisation in the Age of Computerisation

  Friday 25 - Saturday 26 March 2011

  Visualisations abound in all forms and phases of research and knowledge production and communication: this SBS-OeSS conference gathers together a group of people who theorise about or use computational images in their practices.

• Cloud Computing: Identifying and Managing Legal Risks

  Tuesday 8 February 2011 12:30 - 14:30

  Google EU, Chaussee d'Etterbeek 180, 1040 Brussels, Belgium.

  This talk provides an insight into the current state of the cloud computing market based on a comparative analysis of contracts for more than 30 cloud services. Tips are given for managing cloud-related risks, and likely future trends are forecast.

• Web Science: A New Frontier

  Monday 27 - Tuesday 28 September 2010

  This interdisciplinary meeting at the Royal Society will discuss the processes behind the Web's growth, the emergence of large-scale structure, its work as a socio-technical system and other issues as it presents the components of a Science of the Web.

• Book Launch: 'World Wide Research'

  Wednesday 22 September 2010 16:00 - 18:00

  This event marks the publication of 'World Wide Research' by MIT Press, with a keynote on directions in digital social research and a panel discussion on the role of advanced Internet and Web technologies for research practices across disciplines

• e-History Doctoral Workshop

  Thursday 3 - Friday 4 September 2009

  A workshop for history doctoral students who are interested in using the Internet for research, covering identification of digital resources for history, operationalizing research questions using digital resources, and digital resource best practice.

• Digital History Workshop: Digital Resources for History and Historians

  Thursday 3 September 2009 09:00 - 19:00

  McGregor Matthews Room, New College, University of Oxford, Holywell Street, Oxford OX1 3BN.

  A workshop aiming to introduce researchers to key digital history resources, to showcase the research arising from these new resources, and to raise and discuss issues surrounding the use of digital resources for research and teaching.

• Internet jurisdiction and data protection law

  Monday 15 June 2009 16:00 - 17:30

  The Internet lacks clarity of rules for determining jurisdiction over online activities. Clarifying questions of jurisdiction under data protection law can provide crucial insights into the issues of jurisdiction on the Internet in general.

• e-Research and the End of Theory

  Wednesday 10 June 2009 16:00 - 17:30

  What are the implications of the emergence of massive searchable amounts of data for scientific and scholarly research? Different scenarios of the future of scientific and scholarly knowledge creation that are currently in vogue are explored.

• The Second Life of Urban Planning

  Thursday 4 June 2009 15:00 - 16:30

  This presentation traces a number of evolving links between urban planning, neogeography and ICTs, and two significant trends that have direct implications for urban planning - participation and visualisation - are discussed.

• Scholarship in the Digital Age: Blurring the Boundaries between Research and Learning

  Friday 29 May 2009 16:00 - 17:30

  This talk compares developments in scholarly information infrastructure and in cyberlearning, reflecting on the implications for scholarship in the digital age.

• The Modelling4All Project: A web-based modelling tool embedded in Web 2.0

  Tuesday 26 May 2009 14:00 - 15:00

  OeRC Access Grid Room (room 277), 7 Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3QG.

  The Modelling4All Project is building a web-based tool for constructing, running, visualising, analysing, and sharing agent-based models. They can be constructed by non-experts by composing pre-built modular components called micro-behaviours.

• Humanities on the Web: Is it working?

  Thursday 19 March 2009 10:00 - 16:00

  Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HS.

  The web now contains the results of many initiatives to digitise resources for the humanities but how successful are these initiatives and how much information has now been archived online?

• Information and Web Science Doctoral Workshop

  Wednesday 18 March 2009 10:30 - 21:00

  A workshop aimed at doctoral students in the areas of information science, library science, web science, Internet studies, or related disciplines who are working on topics related to the Internet and other networked technologies.

• Social Hyperlink Analysis, Webometrics, and Digital Networks in South Korea

  Tuesday 27 January 2009 12:30 - 14:00

  OII Visitor Han Woo Park discusses social hyperlink analysis, webometrics, and digital networks in South Korea.

• Common Knowledge, Open Science

  Thursday 4 December 2008 10:00 - 12:30

  We are seeing the transformation of knowledge from something that is primarily conveyed in paper formats into something else: a computable graph, in which the knowledge is written in formats that computers can understand and interconnect.

• The Transformation of Academic Publishing in the Digital Era

  Friday 21 November 2008 16:00 - 17:30

  Frances Pinter brings her experiences both as an academic publisher and an academic researcher herself to bear on the ways in which academic publishing needs to transform itself to respond to the opportunities and challenges of the digital age.

• The Virtual World Exploratorium Project: New findings and future directions

  Monday 13 October 2008 14:00 - 15:30

  Professor Williams presents the latest findings from the Virtual Worlds Exploratorium (VWE) Project, which uses a unique dataset to study human behaviors within a virtual game world.

• Oxford e-Research Conference 2008

  Thursday 11 - Saturday 13 September 2008

  Summary to come.

• The dilemmas of digitization. Thinking about the past, planning the future: how to digitize the humanities?

  Thursday 22 - Saturday 24 May 2008

  Maison Francaise d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE.

  While digitization has become commonplace, and the research community enjoys its many benefits, there remains work to be done to ensure that it is done efficiently, in an internationally coordinated way.

• Implementing Open Data: The Open Data Commons project

  Friday 7 March 2008 16:00 - 17:00

  This talk will discuss the Open Data Commons legal tool - the Public Domain Dedication and Licence - and place this work within the greater context of open access and new generations of web tools.

• From Computerization to Informatization: Social Actions and Economic Value in the US Residential Real Estate Industry

  Monday 14 January 2008 15:00 - 16:30

  This talk focuses on the rapid pace of computerization in the US residential real estate industry over the past decade, illustrating the social nature of economic activity

• Exploring the distributed development of Grid infrastructure for Particle Physics at the LHC: A case of Scaled Agility?

  Tuesday 6 November 2007 15:00 - 17:00

  Summary to come.

• World Wide Science: The Promise of e-Research Across the Disciplines

  Thursday 31 May 2007 17:00 - 18:30

  Oxford e-Research Centre, 7 Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3QG.

  How can e-research enable new forms of collaboration, visualization and data collection in the sciences and humanities? Focusing on heart and biological systems modelling and single view metrology to analyse forms in spaces in Renaissance paintings.

• To Share or Not to Share: Synthetic Data Accelerate Knowledge Generation in Management and Social Science Research

  Thursday 10 May 2007 15:00 - 16:30

  Summary to come.

• Strategies for the Long-Term in Infrastructure Design

  Monday 26 March 2007 15:30 - 17:00

  Infrastructure should provide a persistent, ubiquitous, reliable environment. How do we design it before it has users? How do we secure continued commitment? What about changing technologies, emerging standards and uncertain institutional trajectories?

• Trust and Ethics in e-Science: Agenda-Setting Workshop

  Monday 11 September 2006 10:30 - 16:30

  St Cross College, University of Oxford.

  Bringing together potential and actual users, developers and representatives of data subject groups to understand the ethical implications and barriers of e-science for their own practices, and the specific issues that emerge in specific contexts.

• A New Method for Scientific and Medical Communication via the Internet

  Tuesday 29 August 2006 15:30 - 17:00

  How can the Internet be used to most accurately compile current scientific and medical knowledge, as well as present-day speculations, from scientists in their fields of speciality?

• Towards a Cyberinfrastructure for the Study of Science

  Monday 10 July 2006 11:00 - 12:30

  Discussing efforts to create a cyberinfrastructure that supports the study of mankind's scholarly knowledge.

• DCC and DPC Joint Workshop: Policies for Long-term Curation and Preservation within Digital Repositories

  Monday 3 - Tuesday 4 July 2006

  Wolfson College, University of Oxford.

  Exploring the range of policies required to manage, preserve, and reuse the information held within digital repositories over time, and providing examples of the range and nature of the policies required and real-life experiences of implementing them.

• Researching the Web of Knowledge

  Monday 26 June 2006 13:30 - 17:00

  Seminar Room A, Said Business School, University of Oxford.

  Summary to come.

• The Magic of Infrastructure: Evolving Large-Scale Collaboration

  Thursday 25 May 2006 15:30 - 17:00

  Summary to come.

• User Experiences with Security in e-Science Grids: Lessons and Opportunities

  Tuesday 16 May 2006 15:30 - 17:00

  Summary to come.

• Qualitative e-Social Science: Issues in the Generation and Use of Video-based Data

  Tuesday 4 April 2006 10:00 - 16:00

  Oxford University Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford.

  Summary to come.

• Building Preservation Environments

  Friday 17 February 2006 15:00 - 16:30

  Multiple projects in the US are using data grid technology to build preservation environments: Reagan Moore discusses the concepts used to implement data grids and maps them onto the principles used to manage preservation environments.

• The World Wide Web and Access to Knowledge Workshop

  Thursday 9 - Friday 10 February 2006

  Summary to come.

• Entangled Data: A comparison of science practices and the implications for e-(social)science

  Wednesday 18 January 2006 11:45 - 13:15

  Summary to come.

• The Mixed Reality Laboratory: A Perspective on e-Social Science

  Thursday 15 December 2005 15:30 - 16:30

  Tom Rodden provides an overview of his current research on e-Social Science, focusing on the research issues arising from the initial stages of his e-Social Science node, 'Understanding New Forms of Digital Record for e-Social Science'.

• Ethics in e-Science

  Monday 12 December 2005 10:00 - 16:00

  This workshop aims to develop a shared framework for understanding the ethical issues of the e-Sciences.

• Disciplinary Differences in e-Research: An Information Perspective

  Tuesday 14 June 2005 15:00 - 16:30

  What behavioural, social, political, economic, technical and institutional information issues arise whem we attempt the interdisciplinary collaborations typicial of e-Research?

• Digital Archiving of Research at the University of Oxford

  Friday 10 June 2005 09:00 - 16:00

  This workshop discusses issues facing approaches to archiving digital content over the coming decade, while focusing on a proposal for an institutional digital repository for research reports.

• The shift to e-Research and its implications for the system of scholarly communication

  Wednesday 23 March 2005 15:30 - 17:00

  Summary to come.