Publications and outputs
| Technical papers | Journal papers / book sections |
| Conference papers | Websites/services |
| DAMES workshop materials | Other relevant publication listings |
DAMES Node Technical Paper Series
- Lambert, P.S. (2012). Comparative scaling of educational categories by homogamy - Analysis of UK data from the BHPS , University of Stirling: Technical Paper 2012-1 of the Data Management through e-Social Science Research Node (www.dames.org.uk).
- Lambert, P.S. and Bihagen, E. (2011). Stratification Research and Occupation-based Social Classifications , University of Stirling: Technical Paper 2011-1 of the Data Management through e-Social Science Research Node (www.dames.org.uk).
- Tan, K.L.L. (2010). Technical specification for components of the GEODE (v2) portal , University of Stirling: Technical Paper 2010-2 of the Data Management through e-Social Science Research Node (www.dames.org.uk).
- Lambert, P.S., Doherty, T., McCafferty, S., Warner, G., and Watt, J. (2010). Sociological classifications: The 'GESDE' services for classifications involving occupations, educational qualifications and ethnicity (Practical session workbook) , University of Stirling: Technical Paper 2010-1 of the Data Management through e-Social Science Research Node (www.dames.org.uk).
- Gayle, V. and Lambert, P.S. (2009). Logistic Regression Models in Sociological Research , University of Stirling: Technical Paper 2009-1 of the Data Management through e-Social Science Research Node (www.dames.org.uk).
- Lambert, P.S. and Gayle, V. (2008). Data management and standardisation: A methodological comment on using results from the UK Research Assessment Exercise 2008 , University of Stirling: Technical Paper 2008-3 of the Data Management through e-Social Science Research Node (www.dames.org.uk).
- Blum, J.M. and Turner, K.J. (2008). The DAMES Metadata Approach , University of Stirling: Technical Paper 2008-2 of the Data Management through e-Social Science Research Node (www.dames.org.uk).
- Lambert, P.S.; Gayle, V.; Tan, K.L.L.; Blum, J.M.; Bowes, A.; Jones, S.; Turner, K.J.; Warner, G.; Sinnott, R.O.; and Bihagen, E. (2008). Grid Enabled Specialist Data Environments: Forward Planning for the GE*DE Services for Specialist Data on Occupations, Educational Qualifications, and Ethnicity, University of Stirling: Technical Paper 2008-1 of the Data Management through e-Social Science Research Node (www.dames.org.uk).
T.P. 2010-1
T.P. 2008-2
T.P. 2008-1
Relevant journal papers / book sections
(Selected relevant articles written by members of the DAMES Node published since 2008)
- McCafferty, S., Doherty, T., Sinnott, R. O., & Watt, J. (2010). "e-Infrastructures supporting research into depression, self-harm and suicide". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series A, 368(1925), 3845-3858.
- Warner, G. C., Blum, J. M., Jones, S. B., Lambert, P. S., Turner, K. J., Tan, K. L. L., Dawson, A.; Bell, D. N. F. (2010). "A social science data fusion tool and the DAMES infrastructure". Philosphical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series A, 368(1925)3859-3873.
- Tan, K.L.L. (2010) An Integrated Methodology for Creating Composed Web/Grid Services, Stirling: Working paper CSM-186 of the Department of Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling
- Blum, J.M., Warner, G.C., Jones, S.B., Lambert, P.S., Dawson, A.S.F., Tan, K.L.L. and Turner, K.J. (2009), “Metadata Creation, Transformation and Discovery for Social Science Data Management: The DAMES Project Infrastructure”. IASSIST Quarterly 33(1)23-30.
- Turner, K.J. and Tan, K.L.L. (2009), “A Rigorous Methodology for Composing Services”. In M. Alpuente, B. Cook and C. Joubert (Eds.), Proc. Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems (pp. 165-180). Berlin: Springer.
- Sinnott, R. O. (2009), “Grid Security”, in Wang, L., Jie, W., and Chen, J. (eds), Grid Computing: Infrastructure, Service and Application, London: CRC Press.
- Tan, K. L. L., Lambert, P. S., Turner, K. J., Blum, J., Bowes, A., Bell, D., Gayle, V., Jones, S. B., Maxwell, M., Sinnott, R.O. and Warner, G. (2009), "Enabling Quantitative Data Analysis through e-Infrastructure". Social Science Computing Review, 27(4).
- Turner, K. J., Tan, K. L. L., Blum, J. M., Warner, G. C., Jones, S. B., & Lambert, P. S. (2009), "Managing Data in E-Social Science". In R. Bestak, L. George, V. S. Zaborovsky & C. Dini (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Networks (pp. 214-219). Los Alamitos, Ca: IEEE Computer Society.
- Lambert, P.S., Blum, J.B., Bowes, A., Gayle, V., Jones, S.B., Sinnott, R.O., Tan, K.L.L., Turner, K.J. and Warner, G.C., "Standards setting when standarising categorical data" Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester: National Centre for e-Social Science.
- Sinnott, R.O., Ajayi, O. and Stell, A. J. (2008), “Supporting Grid Based Clinical Trials in Scotland.”, Health Informatics Journal, Special Issue on Integrated Health Records, 14(2): June 2008.
- Turner, K. J., Lambert, P. S., Tan, K. L. L., Gayle, V., Sinnott, R. O., Prandy, K., Bihagen, E. and van Leeuwen, M.H.D. (2008), "Grid Computing for Virtual Organizations: An E-Social Science Case Study". In G. D. Putnik & M. M. Cunha (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations (pp. 643-651). Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA: IGI Global.
- Lambert, P. S., Tan, K. L. L., Gayle, V., Prandy, K. and Bergman, M. M. (2008), "The importance of specificity in occupation-based social classifications". International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 28(5/6): 179-192.
- Turner, K.J., Lambert, P.S., Tan, K.L.L., Gayle, V., Sinnott, R.O., Prandy, K., Bihagen, E. and van Leeuwen, M.V.L. "Grid Computing for Virtual Organizations: An e-Social Science Case Study" (2008), in Putnik, G.D. and Cunha, M.M. Encyclopaedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations (pp643-651). Hershey, Pennsylvania, USAL IGI Global.
Conference papers
(Details of selected conference papers involving the DAMES Node, with links to full papers when available)
- Watt, J. and Sinnott, R.O. Supporting Federated Multi-authority Security Models, 11th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), 23-26 May 2011, Newport Beach, CA (full text)
- Gayle, V. and Lambert, P.S. An analysis of detailed parental occupational differences and their effects on children's school attainment in Britain, International Sociological Association, Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility, Spring meeting, 13-16 April 2011, University of Essex (conference; full text pdf)
- Lambert, P.S., Warner, G., Doherty, T., McCafferty, S., Watt, J., Comerford, M., Gayle, V., Tan, K.L.L., Blum, J., Bowes, A.B. Collaborative systems for enhancing the analysis of social surveys: the Grid Enabled Specialist Data Environments, European Statistics - New Technologies and Techniques in Statistics Biennial conference, Brussels, 22-24 February 2011 (conference; full text pdf)
2011
- Lambert, P.S., Bowes, A.B., Warner, G.C., Gayle, V., Doherty, T. Comparability of categorical variables in longitudinal survey research, Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, Cambridge, 22-24 September 2010
- Lambert, P.S., Warner, G.C., Birkin, M. Sociological classifications and simulation models of social inequality, Social Stratification Research Conference, Utretch, 8-10 September 2010
- Dawson, A.S.F. Data management case studies: Enhancing the analysis of e-Health data and data on social care, Presentation to session 17 of the ESRC NCRM Research Methods Festival, University of Oxford, 6 July 2010 (materials)
- Jones, S.B., Warner, G.C., Lambert, P.S. and Blum, J.B. Curating metadata for social science data applications, Presentation to session 17 of the ESRC NCRM Research Methods Festival, University of Oxford, 6 July 2010 (materials)
- Lambert, P.S. Dealing with variables: Resources and topics in enhancing secondary survey data, Presentation to session 17 of the ESRC NCRM Research Methods Festival, University of Oxford, 6 July 2010 (materials)
- Lambert, P.S. Sociological classifications: The 'GESDE' services for classifications involving occupations, educational qualifications and ethnicity, Presentation to the Census Programme Workshop on Spatial and Social Classifications, University of Leeds, 8 June 2010 (materials).
- Jones, S.B., Warner, G., Lambert, P.S., Blum J. A data curation application using DDI: The DAMES data curation tool for organising specialist social science data resources IASSIST annual conference, Ithyca, NY, 1-4 June 2010 (slides)
- Lambert, P.S. Challenges and strategies when exploiting data on ethnicity from social survey datasets Presentation to the NCRM Seminar 'What is ethnicity? What Methods best capture it?', part of the NCRM series 'Promoting methodological innovation and capacity building in research in ethnicity', Univeristy of Essex, 14 May 2010
2010
- Warner, G., Blum, J., Jones, S.B., Turner, K.J., Lambert, P.S., Turner, K.J., Tan, K.L.L., Bell, D.N.F., A Social Science Data Fusion Tool and the DAMES Infrastructure, UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, Oxford, UK, December 2009.
- M. Birkin, R. Allan, S. Beckhofer, I. Buchan, J. Finch, C. Goble, A. Hudson-Smith, P. Lambert, R. Procter, D. de Roure, R.O. Sinnott, The Elements of a Computational Infrastructure for Social Simulation, UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, Oxford, UK, December 2009.
- S. McCafferty, T. Doherty, R.O. Sinnott, J. Watt, Supporting Research into Depression, Self-Harm and Suicide across Scotland, UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, Oxford, UK, December 2009.
- A.J. Stell, R.O. Sinnott, O. Ajayi, J. Jiang, Clinically-driven, Secure Data Exchange for e-Health, UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, Oxford, UK, December 2009.
- N. Gray, R.O Sinnott, T. Doherty J. Lusted, Advanced Grid Authorisation using Semantic Technologies - AGAST, UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, Oxford, UK, December 2009.
- Blum, J., Warner, G., Jones, S.B., Lambert, P.S., Dawson, A., Tan, K.L.L., Turner, K.J., Metadata creation, transformation and discovery for social science data management: The DAMES project infrastructure, 1st Annual European DDI Users Group Meeting, IZA, Bonn, 4 December 2009. (download pdf)
- Watt, J., Sinnott, R.O., Jiang, J., Doherty, T., Higgins, C., Koutroumpas, M., Tool Support for Security-oriented Virtual Research Collaborations, IEEE International Workshop on Security in e-Science and e-Research (ISSR-09), Chengdu, China, August 2009.
- Stell, A.J., Sinnott, R.O., Ajayi, O., Jiang, J. Designing Privacy for a Scalable Electronic Healthcare Linkage System, IEEE International Conference on Information Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (PASSAT 2009), Vancouver, Canada, August 2009.
- Lambert, P.S. and Gayle, V. 'Escape from Poverty' and Occupations. Presented to the BHPS User Conference, Colchester, 9-11 July 2009. (download pdf)
- Sinnott, R.O., Ajayi, O., Stell, A.J. Data Privacy by Design: Digital Infrastructures for Clinical Collaborations, International Conference on Security and Privacy, Orlando, USA, July 2009.
- Sinnott, R.O., Doherty, T., Gray, N., Lusted, J. "Semantic Security: Specification and Enforcement of Semantic Policies for Security-driven Collaborations", Proceedings of 7th HealthGrid Conference, Berlin, Germany, July 2009.
- Bowes, A.; Dawson, A.; Bell, D.N.F., "Ethical implications of using lifestyle monitoring data in ageing research", paper presented to the Fifth International Conference on e-Social Science, Cologne, Germany, 24-26 June 2009. (download pdf).
- Dawson, A., Maxwell, M., "Trying to see the bigger picture: a review of the opportunities for linking eHealth and social science datasets to enhance understanding of risk of suicide in Scotland", paper presented to the Fifth International Conference on e-Social Science, Cologne, Germany, 24-26 June 2009 (download pdf)
- Lambert, P.S., Gayle, V., Bowes, A., Blum, J.; Jones, S.; Sinnott, R.O.; Tan, K.L.L.; Turner, K.J., Warner, G., "Standards setting when standardising categorical data", paper presented to the Fifth International Conference on e-Social Science, Cologne, Germany, 24-26 June 2009. (download pdf) (ppt slides).
- R.O. Sinnott, T. Doherty, C. Higgins, P. Lambert, S. McCafferty, A. Stell, K. J. Turner, J.P. Watt, "Supporting Security-oriented, Inter-disciplinary Research: Crossing the Social, Clinical and Geospatial Domains", paper presented to the Fifth International Conference on e-Social Science, Cologne, Germany, 24-26 June 2009.(download pdf).
- R.O. Sinnott, S. Hussain, "Architectural Design Patterns for Security-oriented Workflows in the Social Science Domain", paper presented to the Fifth International Conference on e-Social Science, Cologne, Germany, 24-26 June 2009. (download pdf).
- Turner, K. J., Tan, K. L. L., Blum, J. M., Warner, G. C., Jones, S. B., & Lambert, P. S. (2009). "Managing Data in E-Social Science". In R. Bestak, L. George, V. S. Zaborovsky & C. Dini (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Networks (pp. 214-219). Los Alamitos, Ca: IEEE Computer Society.
2009
- Bell, D.N.F., "Free Personal Care in Scotland", Irish Health Economist's Conference, Antrim, Northern Ireland, 17 October 2008.
- Maxwell, M. Risk and Protective Factors for Suicide and Suicidal Behaviour: a literature review. Focus on Risk. Suicide Information and Research Network Seminar, Edinburgh, 16 December 2008.
- R.O. Sinnott, Ajayi, O., Stell, A.J. "Blind Data Aggregation from Distributed, Protected Sources: The Future Model for Security-oriented Collaborations", UK e-Science All Hands Meeting conference, Edinburgh, September 2008.
- Sinnott, R.O, Ajayi, O., Stell, A.J., Young, A. "Towards a Virtual Anonymisation Grid for Unified Access to Remote Clinical Data", Proceedings of the 6th International HealthGrid conference, Chicago, USA, June 2008.
2008
Workshops
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24-25 November 2010
- Workshop on ' Documentation and Workflows in Social Survey Research
- Link to materials/downloads
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31 August 2010
- Workshop on ' Data on Educational Qualifications in Social Survey Research
- Link to materials/downloads
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6 July 2010
- Workshop on ' Resources for Data Management and Handling Social Science Data', 4th ESRC Research Methods Festival, University of Oxford, 5-8 July 2010 (conference programme)
- Link to materials/Downloads
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28 January 2010
- Workshop on ' Data on Ethnicity in Social Survey Research
- Link to materials/downloads
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24-25 August 2009
- Workshop on ' Data Managment for Social Survey Research
- Link to materials/downloads
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24 June 2009
- Workshop on ' Cross-nationally comparative social survey research', at the 5th International Conference on e-Soical Science, Cologne, 24-26 June 2009 (conference programme)
- Link to direct download of selected slides from the workshop
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27 January 2009
- Workshop on ' The significance of data management for social survey research', Economic and Social Data Service and DAMES research Node, University of Essex, 27 January 2009
- Link to programme and downloadable slides.
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1 July 2008
- Workshop on ' Resources for Data Management and Handling Social Science Data', 3rd ESRC Research Methods Festival, University of Oxford, 30 June - 3 July 2008 (conference programme)
- Workshop website with downloadable presentation slides
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18 June 2008
- Workshop on ' Data Management through e-Social Science', at the 4th International Conference on e-Social Science, University of Manchester, 18-20 June 2008 (conference link)
- Audio/Video of workshop sessions at ReDReSS ; Direct download of workshop presentations (ppt)
Websites/services
(with materials produced as part of or in coordination with DAMES)
- www.geode.stir.ac.uk GEODE: Grid Enabled Occupational Data Environment
- www.dames.org.uk/gemde/ GEMDE: Grid Enabled ethnic Minority Data Environment
- www.camsis.stir.ac.uk CAMSIS: Cambridge Social Interaction and Stratifiation scales (data on occuaptions which is used within GEODE)
Other relevant publication listings
- GEODE project publications page (details of conference and journal papers, and a short working paper series, produced 2005-2007)
This page was last updated on 1 October 2010.





