Edwards, Peter
(2017).
Semantic grid tools for rural policy development and appraisal.
[Data Collection]. Colchester, Essex:
Economic and Social Research Council.
10.5255/UKDA-SN-850716
Data description (abstract)
The project will assist the social science community to exploit the full potential of emerging Semantic Web technologies and standards in the Grid context. It will expand upon an earlier ESRC-funded pilot demonstrator project at Aberdeen (Fearlus-G[1]) to explore the costs and benefits of using proposed Semantic Grid standards and methodology in tasks related to policy development and appraisal. Aims of the Node are as follows: To facilitate evidence-based rural, social, and land-use policy-making through integrated analysis of mixed data types, with the goal of enabling the achievement of greater sustainability through cross-sectoral policy-making; To demonstrate that Semantic Web/Grid solutions can be deployed to support various facets of evidence-based policy-making through the development of appropriate tools; To focus on the authoring of relevant ontologies to support rural, social and land-use policy domains; To investigate issues surrounding communication of semantic metadata to social scientists and policy practitioners; To promote awareness of the Semantic Grid vision and supporting technologies amongst social scientists, and to facilitate training through workshops, etc.; To foster interdisciplinary research between social and computing scientists.
| Data creators: |
| Creator Name |
Affiliation |
ORCID (as URL) |
| Edwards Peter |
University of Aberdeen |
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| Contributors: |
| Name |
Affiliation |
ORCID (as URL) |
| Mellish Christopher |
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| Farrington John |
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| Preece Alun |
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| Sponsors: |
Economic and Social Research Council
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| Grant reference: |
RES-149-25-1027
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| Topic classification: |
Politics
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| Date published: |
14 Jan 2013 15:42
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| Last modified: |
12 Jul 2017 08:42
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| Collection period: |
| Date from: | Date to: |
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| 1 February 2006 | 30 April 2009 |
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| Country: |
United Kingdom |
| Data collection method: |
This research used a range of methods to evaluate the software tools developed during the project. These included interviews, focus groups, user observation, and analysis of quantitative data (via system logs). Specific methods used to conduct the various studies are described in the deposit metadata. |
| Observation unit: |
Individual, Text unit |
| Kind of data: |
Numeric, Text |
| Type of data: |
Qualitative and mixed methods data |
| Resource language: |
English |
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| Data sourcing, processing and preparation: |
All research activities involving human participants were subject to the usual ethical approval procedures of the School, College and University. No children or other vulnerable groups were involved. Informed consent was obtained before any data was collected (via interviews or focus groups) or before users trialled software prototypes . All resulting data has been anonymised.
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| Rights owners: |
| Name |
Affiliation |
ORCID (as URL) |
| Edwards Peter |
University of Aberdeen |
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| Pignotti Edoardo |
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| Hielkema Feikje |
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| Contact: |
| Name | Email | Affiliation | ORCID (as URL) |
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| Edwards, Peter | p.edwards@abdn.ac.uk | University of Aberdeen | Unspecified |
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| Notes on access: |
The Data Collection is available for download to users registered with the UK Data Service.
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| Publisher: |
Economic and Social Research Council
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| Last modified: |
12 Jul 2017 08:42
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