Important Dates
Call for Contributions:
15 February 2020
Submissions of abstracts/papers:
opening 15 February 2020, closing 6 July 2020
Information of acceptance of contribution:
5 August 2020
Symposium registration:
opening 16 July 2020, closing 28 September 2020
(or when maximum number of participants is exceeded)
Open Search Symposium at CERN, Geneva, or via Web:
12 – 14 October 2020
Online publication of proceedings:
(Extended abstracts/full Papers)
during winter 2020/2021
12-14 October 2020
hosted by CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Dear Experts, Supporters and Friends of Open Internet Search,
the current COVID-19 pandemic forces us once again to change the plans for the the 2nd international Open Search Symposium (OSSYM 2020) for this year: since we could have met with only a very small number of participants physically on site and CERN had to furthermore cancel all visits to the experimental sites for the rest of the year 2020, we decided to hold the 2nd Open Search Symposium as a pure online (web-based) event.
As you know the pandemic has tremendously boosted digital activities of individuals, society and economy as a whole. This continues to underpin how important it is to ensure that orientation in the digital sphere, as well as the access to digital knowledge, information and services via the internet remains neutral, open, democratic and in a privacy respecting way.
On 12-14 October the 2nd international Open Search Symposium (OSSYM 2020) will be held as a fully web-based, remote event, hosted by CERN. This event will allow us to dive even deeper into the societal, scientific and technical aspects of open and distributed internet search.
You are kindly invited to join this meeting, the networking activities and discussions online. More details and the relevant web links can be found below. The call for contributions has already been closed and we thank all the authors for their very interesting contributions! The OSSYM scientific program is now available online we are looking forward to interesting presentations and discussions as well as to expand the network and cooperation among research groups and experts in the context of Open Search during the symposium in October.
As you know, the development of a European Open Internet search community and infrastructure involves expertise from many different scientific and technical fields. It requires profound understanding of internet search technologies and new thinking for services and innovative applications, to be built on an open and distributed Internet search infrastructure in and for Europe.
Please register for OSSYM 2020 via the link below – and see you online in October!
Please pass on the message and inform your colleagues and peers about the upcoming OSSYM 2020. For any suggestions and further ideas for OSSYM 2020 please contact us at
On behalf of the symposium/organizing committee,
Dr. Andreas Wagner, CERN
Prof. Dr. Christian Guetl , TU Graz
Prof. Dr. Michael Granitzer, Univ. Passau
Dr. Stefan Voigt, open search foundation
Programme
Day 1, 12 October 2020
11:00 – 11:15
Welcome and Introduction
Symposium Organizing Committee
11:15 – 11:40
Policy Keynote
EC/DG Connect (tbc)
11:40 – 12:05
Legal Aspects
Olivia Tambou
12:05 – 13:30
Lunch Break
13:30 – 13:55
Tech Perspectives
Arjen DeVries
13:55 – 14:20
Digital humanity dimension
Monica Palmirani
14:20 – 15:20
Break & Individual Networking
15:20 – 15:45
Beyond Tech – Rising Awareness For The Open Search Foundation Through A Tailor-Made Communication Approach
Alexander Decker et al.
15:45 – 16:00
The CERN-Solid collaboration project
Maria Dimou
16:00 – 16:15
Ecosia – Fair competition in the market of web search engines
Wolfgang Oels
16:15 – 16:30
Merging Search Engine Needs
Mark Overmeer
16:30 – 16:40
Summary and Wrap-Up Day 1
(tba)
Day 2, 13. October 2020
11:00 – 11:10
Opening Day 2 and Results of Day 1
11:10 – 11:35
Towards an Open Web Index: Lessons From the Past
Benno Stein et al.
11:35 – 11:50
Geolocated Learning Environments and CapacityBuilding for tailored support in the context of an Open Web Index
Barbara Riedler et al.
11:50 – 12:05
Experiments using a Distributed Web Crawler to Process and Index Web Archives
Sebastian Nagel
12:05 – 12:20
Open Search Use Cases for Improving Information Discovery and Information Retrieval In Large and Highly Connected Organizations
Igor Jakovljevic et al.
12:20 – 12:35
Discovery of Software Innovations using Repository Mining
Tobias Hecking et al
12:35 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00
Working Groups (parallel sessions)
- Tech/Tech Experiments
Michael Granitzer et al. - Legal
Christian Geminn - Ethics
Christine Plote + Anton Frank - Applications
Christian Guetl - Awareness
Alexander Decker - Economy
tba
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee break
15:30 – 16:30
Summary & Wrap-up of Day 2
(tba)
16:30 – 17:30
Virtual “Cocktails” and Networking
Day 3, 13. October 2020
11:00 – 11:10
Opening Day 3 and Results of Day 2
(tba)
11:10 – 11:35
First thoughts on a data lake architecture for an open search infrastructure
Andreas Henrich et al.
11:35 – 11:50
Crypto-securities and the lex rei sitae rule
Sara Sánchez Fernández
11:50 – 12:05
Reducing Misinformation in Query Autocompletions
Djoerd Hiemstra
12:05 – 12:20
Improving Open Web Index’s Transparency by Leveraging bloxberg’s Blockchain Technology
Iosif Peterfi
12:20 – 12:30
Poster Pitches
12:30 – 13:00
Poster Session
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:20
Interdisciplinary, interactive Session and next steps
(tba)
14:20 – 14:40
Open Search Experiments
(tba)
14:40 – 15:00
Open Search Working Groups (Tech, Legal, Ethics, Economy, Awareness, etc)
(tba)
15:00 – 15:15
Any other Business
(tba)
15:15 – 15:30
Symposium Wrap-up, way ahead and closing remarks, Outlook OSSYM 2021
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