e-Social Science and Evidence-Based Policy Assessment: Challenges and Solutions

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

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e-Social Science and Evidence-Based Policy Assessment: Challenges and Solutions

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

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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 pro- venance 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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	553-568
Number of pages	16
Journal	Social Science Computer Review
Volume	27
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0894439309332305
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2009

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eScience
natural language
provenance
semantic web
evidence-based policy

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