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The Second International Conference on e-Social Science will be held in Manchester, UK 28-30 June 2006. Please note that e-science is the UK term for what is known as cyberinfrastructure in the US. The conference invited from members of the social science and Grid research communities with experience of - or interests in - exploring, developing and applying e-Social Science research methods, practices and tools, and in studying the wider development of e-Research and the Grid. Topics include - Case studies of e-Social Science research methods and applications Enabling new sources and forms of sociological data through e-Social Science Infrastructure and tools for e-Social Science Middleware for data collection, sharing and integration Standards for metadata, ontologies, annotation, curation, etc. Usability issues in the design of research tools and middleware Case studies of (e-)Research and (e-) Social Science research practices The benefits and challenges of large scale collaborative research Interdisciplinary research and e-Social Science International collaborations in e-Social Science Socio-technical issues in the development of e-Research and the Grid Ethical issues and challenges in the collection, integration, sharing and analysis of sociological and other personal data Registration for the conference is now open and full details can be found at its Web site. Please contact gillian.sinclair@ncess.ac.uk for further information.