BooksOnline'10 Workshop - Papers due July 7
From: Leonardo Candela <leonardo.candela_at_isti.cnr.it>
Apologies for multiple posts
BooksOnline'10 Workshop: Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories and
Complementary Media
CIKM 2010, October 26, 2010, Toronto, Canada
http://research.microsoft.com/booksonline10/
Call for papers – Submission deadline extended to July 7, 2010
> Breaking news
James Crawford (Engineering Lead for Google Books) will give keynote speech.
Goals
The 3rd BooksOnline workshop aims to bring together researchers and industry practitioners
in Information Retrieval, Digital Libraries, eBooks, Human Computer Interaction,
Publishing industry and on-line book services to foster progress on addressing challenges
and exploring opportunities around large collections of digital books and complementary
media. BooksOnline’10 provides a forum to follow the community progress, share results,
highlight and address issues, and evolve the research agenda.
We solicit research papers, position papers and project proposals around key research
issues and innovation opportunities. The workshop will serve as a forum for the
presentation of research papers and the discussion of the challenges and opportunities
identified in the position papers and project proposals. Participants will be encouraged
to jointly create innovative solutions in collaboration around the themes that emerge from
the submissions and discussions at the workshop. A seed fund of £3,000, provided by
Microsoft Research, will be awarded to one or more selected projects as judged by the
workshop organizers and a selected panel of experts. Seed fund winners will be invited to
report on their projects at the following BooksOnline workshop.
Workshop format
The one day workshop will include keynote and selected paper presentations, a poster
session, break-out sessions to brainstorm around proposals and research ideas, and a panel
discussion to present and summarize the results of the break-out sessions.
The £3,000 seed fund will be awarded following the workshop to one or more research
project proposals selected by a panel of judges from those proposed at the workshop.
Topics of interest
We invite submissions of full research papers (up to 10 pages) describing novel
developments and research, or position papers and project proposals (up to 5 pages)
presenting ideas, goals or directions of work, highlighting pressing issues or
opportunities for innovation involving digital books and complementary media.
The following is a sample listing of possible topics of interests. Other topics relevant
to research advances, developments, emerging issues and possible opportunities for
innovation in large digital book repositories and complementary media are all welcome:
> · Enriched digital collections:
> o Virtual learning environments and eBooks and eBooks in teaching
> o eBooks as integrated content, data, and media
> o Knowledge discovery and sharing in digital book repositories
> o Cross-referencing and sense making
> o Community interests and social context.
> · Usage scenarios and user expectations from digital book services:
> o Affordances of physical books and electronic media
> o Mobile and multi-touch devices for reading and annotating
> o Ink-based applications
> o Social navigation and annotations, social interactions
> o User profiles and content types
> o Children and electronic reading
> o Usage scenarios: searching, browsing, collection building, annotations, authoring,
sharing
> o Personalization and context sensitivity
> o Ubiquitous access
> o Immersive user experience
> o User studies and study design
> · Design and technology
> o eBook UI and interaction designs, e.g., for active reading
> o Usability issues when reading digital books
> o Feature engineering for collection browsing
> o Content representation and discovery
> o Indexing and retrieval
> o Scalability and interoperability
> o Technologies for searching, browsing, filtering, and information extraction
> o Universal access across nations and cultures; translation of content and metadata
> o Integration of complementary content and services
> o Evaluation methodology and practices
Paper submission and participation
Submissions must be written in English, formatted using the ACM templates: using the
"Option 2" style. This is also the style that will be required for final papers. Papers
must be submitted as pdf files.
To submit a research paper (max 10 pages), position paper or project proposal (max 5
pages), please go to the BooksOnline'10 Easychair submission site. Please note that you
may need to create an account first.
Contributions will be reviewed by the programme committee. Authors of selected topics
will be invited to give an oral or poster presentation or facilitate a brainstorming
session at the workshop.
Authors will be notified by July 30, 2010 of the outcome of the review process. Camera
ready copies of accepted papers will be due by August 10, 2010. One author per accepted
paper is required to register and attend the workshop.
> Organizers
> Gabriella Kazai (Microsoft Research, UK)
> Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
> Programme Committee
> Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard (State and University Library, Denmark)
> Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts Amherst, US)
> Gilles Falquet (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
> Norbert Fuhr (University of Duisburg, Germany)
> Gene Golovchinsky (FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc.)
> Ananda Gunawardena (Carnegie Mellon University, US)
> Ivan Koychev (Sofia University, Bulgaria)
> Monica Landoni (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
> Birger Larsen (Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark)
> Ray Larson (University of California, Berkeley, US)
> Michael E. Lesk (Rutgers University, US)
> Catherine C. Marshall (Microsoft Corporation, US)
> John Ockerbloom (Carnegie-Mellon University, US)
> Prakash Reddy (Hewlett-Packard)
> Ian Witten (University of Waikato, New Zealand)
> Further information
> For further information, please visit http://research.microsoft.com/booksonline10/
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