ECDL 2009 Workshop: BooksOnline'09, October 2, 2009, Corfu, Greece,

Call for papers - Deadline July 31, 2009

 

We would like to invite you to submit an extended abstract (max 2 pages) to the BooksOnline'09 Workshop, presenting your views and insights into important issues and opportunities around large collections of on-line books.

 

Goals

Building on the success of the
First BooksOnline Workshop, organized at CIKM 2008, the BooksOnline'09 Workshop at ECDL 2009 aims to provide continuity and to ensure further progress in addressing challenges and exploring opportunities around large collections of digital books and complementary media.

 

The workshop aims to foster the BooksOnline professional network and build support for joint initiatives in research, design, and technology. The objectives are to connect researchers and practitioners from libraries, archives, academia, publishers, and on-line services in order to facilitate discussion and promote collaboration around:

• Key research and innovation issues, leveraging and extending the outcome of the BooksOnline'08 Workshop,
  
• Proposals for projects and initiatives that the BooksOnline community could take forward, and
  
• Strategies for project implementation and funding.
  

  
   

The outcome of the workshop will comprise a set of formulated projects and dedicated committees that will facilitate progress over the following year. Future BooksOnline Workshops will follow the community progress and present an opportunity to share results, revisit the issues, and evolve the research and innovation agenda.

 

Workshop Format

The one day workshop will include selected project presentations and proposals for new initiatives, break-out sessions to brainstorm around proposals and implementation strategies, and a panel discussion to present and summarize the results of the break-out sessions.

 

The day will start with a summary by the organizers, introducing projects and proposal that were submitted to the Workshop for discussion. Selected projects and proposals will be presented by the authors in more detail. The core activity will be the breakout sessions around the proposals for joint initiatives. We expect that the results of these sessions will include an outline of the implementation strategies, the mechanisms for managing the initiatives, and the plan for increasing visibility and creating relevant partnerships. The outcomes will be discussed during the panel session.

 

All the relevant reports, proposals, and presentation abstract will be included in the workshop proceedings and distributed to the participants. A detailed workshop report will be published after the workshop. Participants will be invited to contribute to the post-workshop report by reviewing the organizers' write up and providing additional supporting material if needed.

 

Topics of interest

Participants of the BooskOnline'09 are invited to submit extended abstracts (up to 2 pages) describing pressing issues, opportunities for innovation, case studies of ongoing efforts, or ideas for initiatives involving digital books. Papers reflecting and expanding on the topics that have been identified through position papers and panel discussions during the First BooksOnline'08 Workshop are also welcome. These include, but are not limited to:

 

• Fundamental issues:
  
  • Understanding new paradigms for books, social aspects of on-line book services, and contrasting evolutionary vs. revolutionary approach to innovation, paper vs. electronic media, digitized vs. born digital content.
    
  • Enabling business and research models, identifying collaboration strategies, fostering community driven innovation, identifying enabling technologies, and addressing legal issues.
    
• Enriched digital collections:
  
  • Virtual learning environments and eBooks; eBooks in teaching; eBooks as integrated content, data, and media.
    
  • From books to discovery of knowledge; cross-referencing, sense making, and knowledge sharing; community interests and social context.
    
• Usage scenarios and user expectations from digital book services:
  
  • Affordances of physical books and the difference from electronic media.
    
  • Social navigation and annotations; diverse user profiles and content types; searching, gathering, annotating, and authoring scenarios.
    
  • Personalization and context sensitivity; ubiquitous access; and emersion in the user experience.
    
  • Evaluating eBooks, interface and interaction designs for active reading, features for collection browsing, etc.
    
• Content representation and discovery:
  
  • Indexing and content representation.
    
  • Scalability and interoperability; technologies for search, browsing, filtering, and information extraction.
    
  • Universal access across nations and cultures; translation of content and metadata.
    
  • Integration of complementary content and services.
    

 

Paper Submission and participation

Participants of the workshop are expected to contribute a 2 page extended abstract describing critical issues and challenges, current projects, or proposals for joint initiatives related to large digital book repositories.

 

Submissions must be written in English, following the submission guidelines set by Springer:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0.

To submit a paper, please go to the
BooksOnline'09 Easychair submission site. Please note that you may need to
create an account in order to submit your paper.

Contributions will be reviewed by the organizing and the programme committee. Authors of selected topics will be invited to give a presentation or facilitate a brainstorming session at the workshop.

 

As with BooksOnline'08, we shall aim to attract researchers and practitioners from industry, libraries, and archives who can bring to the discussion the insights and experience of working with large digital book collections and services.

 

Authors will be notified by August 17, 2009 of the outcome of the review process. Camera ready copies of accepted papers will be due by September 6, 2009.

 

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)

Claire Warwick (University College London, UK)

Ray Siemens (University of Victoria, Canada)

Natasa Milic-Frayling (Microsoft Research, UK)