e-Social Science and Evidence-Based Policy Assessment
Peter J. Edwards, John H. Farrington, Chris Mellish, Lorna J Philip, Alison Chorley, Feikje Hielkema, Edoardo Pignotti, Richard J. Reid, Gary Polhill, Nick M. Gotts · Social Science Computer Review · 2009
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.