11:00 – 11:15
Welcome and Introduction
Symposium Organizing Committee

11:15 – 11:40
Policy Keynote
Pearse O’Donohue
(Director, Future Network, DG Connect, European Commission)

11:40 – 12:05
Legal Aspects
Olivia Tambou
(Paris Dauphine University – PSI, France [Pari Dauphine University – PSL, France])

12:05 – 13:30
Lunch Break

13:30 – 13:55
Tech Perspectives
Arjen DeVries
(Radboud University, The Netherlands)

13:55 – 14:20
Digital humanity dimension
Monica Palmirani
(University of Bologna, Italy [Univ. Bolonia, Italy])

14:20 – 15:20
Break & Individual Networking

Plenary Session – “Open Search Ecosystems”
Chair: MIchael Granitzer (University of Passau, Germany)

15:20 – 15:45
Beyond Tech – Raising Awareness For The Open Search Foundation Through A Tailor-Made Communication Approach
Alexander Decker (Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Germany; Open Search Foundation)
Cornelia Hiemer (Technishe Hochschule Ingolstadt, Germany)

15:45 – 16:00
The CERN-Solid collaboration project
Maria Dimou (Cern)

16:00 – 16:15
Ecosia – Fair competition in the market of web search engines
Wolfgang Oels (Ecosia)

16:15 – 16:30
Merging Search Engine Needs
Mark Overmeer (Markov Solution)

16:30 – 16:40
Summary and Wrap-Up Day 1
(Stefan Voigt, Open Search Foundation e.V.)

11:00 – 11:10
Opening Day 2 and Results of Day 1
Andreas Wagner (Cern)

11:10 – 11:35
Keynote: Towards an Open Web Index: Lessons From the Past
Michael Völske (Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar, Germany)

11:35 – 11:50
Geolocated Learning Environments and CapacityBuilding for tailored support in the context of an Open Web Index
Melanie Platz (Pedagogical University of Tyrol, Austria)

11:50 – 12:05
Experiments using a Distributed Web Crawler to Process and Index Web Archives
Sebastian Nagel (Common Crawl)

12:05 – 12:20
Open Search Use Cases for Improving Information Discovery and Information Retrieval In Large and Highly Connected Organizations
Igor Jakovljevic (Cern & Graz University of Technology, Austria)

12:20 – 12:35
Discovery of Software Innovations using Repository Mining
Tobias Hecking (German Aerospace Center)

12:35 – 14:00
Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:00
Working Groups (parallel sessions)

• Tech/Tech Experiments
  Michael Granitzer (University of Passau)
  Stefan Voigt (Open Search Foundation)
• Legal
  Christian Geminn (Lawyer, Managing Director of Research Group provet, University Kassel)
• Ethics
  Christine Plote (Open Serach Foundation e.V.)
  Anton Frank (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre – LRZ – Germany)
• Applications
  Christian Guetl, (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
• Awareness
  Alexander Decker (Open Search Foundation e.V.)
• 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

11:00 – 11:10
Opening Day 3 and Results of Day 2
Chair: Maria Dimou (Cern)

11:10 – 11:35
First thoughts on a data lake architecture for an open search infrastructure
Leon Martin (Universität Bamberg)
Andreas Henrich (University of Bamberg)

11:35 – 11:50
Crypto-securities and the lex rei sitae rule
Sara Sánchez Fernández (IE University)

11:50 – 12:05
Reducing Misinformation in Query Autocompletions
Djoerd Hiemstra (Radboud University)

12:05 – 12:20
Improving Open Web Index’s Transparency by Leveraging bloxberg’s Blockchain Technology
Iosif Peterfi (Iosif Peterfi, Max Planck Digital Library)

12:20 – 12:30
Poster Pitches

12:30 – 13:00
Poster Session

13:00 – 14:00
Lunch Break

14:00 – 14:20
Plenary Session – “Towards an European Open Search Infrastructure”
Chair: Alexander Decker (Open Search Foundation )

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
Conveners: Stefan Voigt (Open Search Foundation), Andreas Wagner (CERN)