Third International Conference on e-Social Science, University of Michigan- Ann Arbor, Oct 7-9, 2007

该提案将为第三届电子社会科学国际会议提供部分支持，该会议将于2007年10月7日至9日在密歇根州安娜堡的密歇根大学举行。这次会议将汇集大约300名网络基础设施和社会科学领域的主要研究人员，以及来自国家科学基金会和其他相关联邦机构的一些项目官员。本次会议延续了在英国曼彻斯特发起的系列会议，曼彻斯特主办了前两届会议。本次会议的目的是将网络基础设施专家与社会科学家聚集在一起，目的是建立更好的相互意识，协调理解，并促进协调活动，以加速研究，开发和部署支持社会科学的新环境。通过在美国举办第三届国际会议，我们希望提高美国研究人员对电子社会科学活动的可见度，这将有利于向美国的研究人员和学生介绍创新实践，以及增加和改进社会科学数据的收集，期望社会科学家能够解决一系列新的社会相关问题和问题。我们的目标是吸引主流社会科学家，并引入他们在电子社会科学领域工作，期望启动新的合作，将网络基础设施应用于探索新的社会科学研究议程。

This proposal will provide partial support for the Third International Conference on e-Social Science, to be held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan on October 7-9, 2007. This conference will bring together roughly 300 leading researchers in cyberinfrastructure and social science, along with a number of program officers from the National Science Foundation and other relevant federal agencies. This conference continues a series initiated at Manchester, UK, which hosted the first two instances. The intent of this meeting is to bring together experts on cyberinfrastructure with social scientists with the goal of creating better mutual awareness, harmonizing understanding, and instigating coordinated activities to accelerate research, development, and deployment of new environments to support social science. By hosting the third international meeting in the US, our hope is to increase the visibility of e-social science activity among US researchers This will have benefits in terms of introducing innovative practices to researchers and students within the US, as well as increasing and improving the collection of social science data, with the expectation that social scientists will be able to address a new range of socially-relevant questions and issues. Our goal is to attract mainstream social scientists and to introduce them to work in e-social science, with the expectation of initiating new collaborations that will apply cyberinfrastructure to exploration of novel social science research agendas.