Centre or e-Research (CeRch) conducts a wide range of interdisciplinary research. It is a part of
ISS. CeRch works on fields of research and practice of creation and management of information; creation of knowledge, methods and tools of
ICT technologies. The Centre includes
AHDS and its projects.
Five main areas of CeRch work:
- As a department in ISS contributes to wide program of e-Research and education, as well as development of virtual research environment./li>
- As a centre researching e-infrastructure, methods of e-research and digital informatics, together with application of e-science in research
- As a centre of education offers postgraduate studies and courses in the field of digital assets management
- As a host for national and international projects and services, including support for e-learning, ICTGuides, arts-humanities.net and UE DARIAH project
- As a provider of guidance, trainings and services creating, fixing and maintaining data
www: www.kcl.ac.uk/iss/cerch
Research conducted by the Centre includes all areas of social politics, and its results have direct practical application in reference to understanding of social behaviour. The Centre brings to life what actually happens now in Great Britain. Research is conducted by experienced scientists with the use of innovative, high quality research methods, obtaining international recognition for delivery of solid and rigorous research. The Centre is a non-for-profit organisation, trying to influence the society and support progress in social research in Great Britain. Its aim is to understand and share knowledge with the society, by NatCen Learning and recently started Survey Skills programme.
www: www.natcen.ac.uk
The WWW network is an unlimited source of information, with vast cognitive, scientific or commercial value. Non-structural form, heterogeneity, openness and dynamics of this medium means that there is a need to develop special techniques, algorithms and tools necessary to obtain, filter and output information available on WWW. Brought into being in 2009 Inter-departmental Lab in Web Mining at PJWSTK conducts research and projects in this relatively new field called Web Mining. Lab conducts research that is fundamental as well as concerning latest application, in a cooperation with centres like: Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Gemius S.A., Institute of Fundamental Informatics PAN, Poznań Polytechnics and others.
www: www.users.pjwstk.edu.pl/~msyd/webmining.html
Growth of networks and huge databases changes our society. Main goals of the Department are conducting research and education of society in order to analyse society with such dynamic information, and design of social information systems. E-commerce, digital libraries, environment observation, bio-sources, prevention of natural disasters and processing of medical information are among the main fields of research. The department also works on network security and intellectual property.
www: www.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Social Informatics is a research field that aims to improve our knowledge on social context of technological actions and co-evolution of technologies, organisations and society, by research and modelling. Topics of the research include: inter-organisational coordination on removing effects of natural disasters, social innovations, IT adoption, IT work force, IT at home and work, global diffusion, virtual worlds and artificial environments, IT and powers of organisation, mobile technologies for developing countries and technologies for social integration.
www: ist.psu.edu
Centre for Research in Social Simulation (CRESS) based at the Department of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences on University of Surrey, Great Britain is a interdisciplinary centre bringing together social sciences, software engineering and multi-agent systems. Its aim is to promote and support application of social simulations in social science research.
www: cress.soc.surrey.ac.uk
An example of designing of innovative Web 2.0 system that can be used to obtain completely new information on users is a visual microblog. Microblogs (like Twitter) are systems, in which entries are in a form of short information about current state of users. Visual microblog substitutes entries with a choice of one or more combinations from set list of states. Those states are visualised by icons. Consecutive states make up a states history that is represented visually on microblog portal (like a comic book of their own lives). Application that allows to choose a state has been implemented for mobile phones, which allows users for accurate updates of states while writing their own personal microblogs.
The 2nd International Conference on Social Informatics
It will take place in Laxenburg, Austria 27-29 October 2010. There is a following list of topics set for the conference:
- Computational models of social phenomena and social simulation
- Social networks: discovery, evolution, analysis and applications
- Web mining and its social interpretations
- Trust Management algorithms and protocols
- Design and analysis of Web2.0 applications (social or collaborative Web applications)
- Algorithms and protocols inspired by human societies
- Mechanisms for providing fairness in information systems
- Social choice mechanisms in the e-society
- Recommendation systems and social applications of the semantic Web
This is a second edition of Socinfo conference. The first one took place in 2009 in Warsaw. Program of the last year’s conference s available under url socinfo2009.pl.
www: socinfo2010.pl
Company Gemius SA provides knowledge about Internet market, as well as research, analytic and advisory services in Internet field. Gemius is a leader on polish market in Internet research field. Data, that it administers, provide information about mattera like surfers movements on www pages, socio-demographical profiles, efficiency of ad campaigns.
www: www.gemius.pl
