The SUM presented here is about GEMEDA (Grid Enabled Micro-econometric Data Analysis), which is a Grid-based application for social sciences.
Although the use of Grid technologies is currently not common within social sciences research, many social scientists today want to investigate complex research questions that mean combining datasets from a variety of sources. However, there are difficulties in converting and combining the various data. GEMEDA makes use of Grid technology to integrate the data, computation and presentation elements of an empirical economic modelling process.
Thus, GEMEDA has provided invaluable insights into many of the technical and methodological issues that need to be addressed when Grid-enabling social sciences datasets and developing Grid-based services. For example, GEMEDA allows addressing substantive issues, such as determining United Kingdom ethnic minority welfare by means of using a form of statistical data fusion developed in the poverty mapping literature.
This SUM has been developed by the JISC-funded e-Infrastructure Use Cases and Service Usage Models (eIUS) project ( http://engage.ac.uk/eIUS , http://www.eius.ac.uk/) that aims to help UK researchers become more aware of the e-Infrastructure services that are available and how they can be successfully used to achieve specific research goals. eIUS is one of the JISC-funded e-Infrastructure community engagement and support projects (eIUS, ENGAGE, and e-Uptake) that intend to enhance and consolidate the existing e-Infrastructure technologies and to establish sustainable communities of use.
More information about GEMEDA can be found at:
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