e-Social Science and Evidence-Based Policy Assessment

Authors:
Peter Edwards;John H. Farrington;Chris Mellish;Lorna J. Philip;Alison H. Chorley;Feikje Hielkema;Edoardo Pignotti;Richard Reid;J. Gary Polhill;Nick M. Gotts
Affiliations:
School of Natural & Computing Sciences, Universityof Aberdeen;School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen;School of Natural & Computing Sciences, Universityof Aberdeen;School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen;The Macaulay Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen;School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen;School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen,;School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen;The Macaulay Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen;The Macaulay Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen
Venue:
Social Science Computer Review
Year:
2009

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Abstract

The PolicyGrid project is exploring the role of Grid, Semantic Web, and Web 2.0 technologies to support e-Social Science, with particular emphasis on tools to facilitate evidence-based policy making. In this article, we discuss the challenges associated with construction of a provenance framework to support evidence-based policy assessment. We then discuss ourSpaces, a virtual research environment for e-Social Science that uses the Web 2.0 paradigm as well as Semantic Grid technologies and which provides researchers with facilities for management of digital resources using a novel natural language interface.