6th International
6th International
The Open Search Symposium #ossym24 brings together the Open Web Search community in Europe for the sixth time. The hybrid conference provides a forum to discuss and further develop the ideas and concepts of open internet search, search and AI, and related topics in various formats including scientific talks, panels, workshops, demonstrations, student challenges and informal discussion spaces. Participants include researchers, data centres, libraries, policy makers, legal and ethical experts, and society.
Conference Programme
Discuss interdisciplinary aspects of Open Search
technical • ethical • legal • educational • economic • applications
Science Tracks
Crawling and Infrastructure
Search Applications and Technologies
Preprocessing and ML for Search
LLMs and RAG
Sessions + Workshops
- Ethics + Society
- Wiki/Curation
- NGI
- Legal aspects of open web search
Industry Track
„Alternative Search Engines“
Registration
You can register for the conference via the system of our conference partner CERN.
*How to register*
In order to register for #ossym24 you have to follow 2 steps:
- You will need first to create a CERN Guest Account and log in with it: On the CERN Single Sign-On page click on „External email – Guest access“ and then „Register“. Alternatively you can sign-in with eduGAIN or an external social account (GitHub, Google, LinkedIn, Facebook). If you already have an account with CERN, you can use it.
- After logging in with your (new) CERN account, please fill in the form at CERN to register for the #ossym24. Once registered you will receive an email confirmation.
Venue
Leibniz Rechenzentrum
Garching (Munich), Germany
Address
Leibniz-Rechenzentrum
Boltzmannstraße 1
D-85748 Garching (Munich)
How to get there
By Public Transport
From the main station:
Take U4/U5 to Odeonsplatz, then U6 direction Garching Forschungszentrum.
From the airport:
S-Bahn S8 (direction Hauptbahnhof) to the third stop, Ismaning (about 13 minutes). Take the regional bus 230 in the direction of Garching-Forschungszentrum, stop Boltzmannstraße.
Important note: The bus line 230 bypasses the research site only in one direction. To save you long waiting times, we recommend leaving the bus at the Garching-Forschungszentrum stop for the return journey in the direction of Ismaning.
From the S-Bahn area:
with all S-Bahn trains to Marienplatz, there in U6 direction Garching-Forschungszentrum.
By taxi
from airport: approx. 20-30 min., 30-40 Euro
from Ismaning: approx. 10 min., 12-15 Euro
from the city centre: approx. 20-30 min: 25-35 Euro
By car
From the south (e.g. Munich) as well as from the north (e.g. airport) preferably the motorway (A9) to the exit Garching Nord (exit 70). After the exit (either right or left) in the direction of research institutes, cross the intersection with the B11 and turn into Ludwig-Prandtl-Straße. Parking spaces are available on the left. The LRZ computer cube can be seen from a distance.
Organisers
Conference Chairs
Prof. Dr. Michael Granitzer | University Passau, Germany
Prof. Dr. Christian Guetl | Graz University of Technology, Austria
Christine Plote | Open Search Foundation, Germany
Dr. Stefan Voigt | Open Search Foundation, Germany
Dr. Andreas Wagner | CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Local Organization:
LRZ – Leibniz Rechenzentrum
Programme Committee
Prof. Emmanuel Cartier | European Commission JRCProf.
Dr. Alexander Decker | Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Germany
Prof. Dr. Kai Erenli | University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna, Austria
Msc. Maik Fröbe | Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany
Priv.-Doz Dr. Christian Geminn | University Kassel, Germany
Prof. Dr. Michael Granitzer | University Passau, Germany
Prof. Dr. Christian Guetl | Graz University of Technology, Austria
Prof. Dr. Andreas Henrich | University Bamberg, Germany
Prof. Djoerd Hiemstra | University of Twente, Radboud University, Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Robert Jäschke | Humboldt University Berlin & L3S, Hannover, Germany
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Nils Jensen | Ostfalia University of Applied Science, Wolfenbüttel, Germany
Prof. Dr. Mohammed Kaicer | Faculty of Sciences Kenitra, Morocco
Dr. Jens Kersten | German Aerospace Centre, Jena, Germany
Dr. Jelena Mitrovic | University of Passau, Germany
Prof. Dr. Engelbert Niehaus | University Koblenz-Landau, Landau, Germany
Dr. Jakub Piskorski | European Commission
Prof. Dr. Melanie Platz | Saarland University, Germany
Prof. Dr. Martin Potthast | Leipzig University, Germany
Prof. Dr. Mirko Presser | Aarhus University, Denmark
Prof. Dr. Georg Rehm | German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Berlin, Germany
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gianmaria Silvello | University of Padova, Italy
Dr. Tim Smith | CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Arjen P. de Vries | Radboud University, Netherlands
Dr. Stefan Voigt | Open Search Foundation, Germany
Dr. Andreas Wagner | CERN, Geneva, Switzerland