WikiSym 2007 paper submission deadline is upon us in 6 weeks!
Please consider submitting a paper, panel, workshop, etc.
Dirk
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WikiSym 2007
CALL FOR PAPERS
2007 International Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym 2007)
Wikis at Work in the World:
Open, Organic, Participatory Media for the 21st Century
October 21-23, 2007, Montreal, Canada
Co-located with ACM OOPSLA 2007
In cooperation with ACM SIGWEB
See http://www.wikisym.org/
Archived * Peer Reviewed * ACM Sponsored
OVERVIEW
The 2007 International Symposium on Wikis brings together wiki
researchers, practitioners, and users. The goal of the symposium is to
explore and extend our growing community. The symposium has a
rigorously reviewed research paper track as well as plenty of space
for practitioner reports, demonstrations, and discussions. Anyone who
is involved in using, researching, or developing wikis is invited to
WikiSym 2007!
We recognize the online world is always evolving, and we also welcome
contributions which are about other online media consistent with the
wiki philosophy of being open, organic and participatory.
We are seeking submissions for
* research papers (long and short): due 7 May 2007
* workshops: due 7 May 2007
* panels: due 7 May 2007
* posters: due 9 July 2007
* demonstrations: due 9 July 2007
Given the interdisciplinary nature of wikis, we invite contributions
from researchers and practitioners in a wide range of fields
including:
* business, marketing, law
* communications and media studies
* computer science, human-computer interaction
* history, political science, geography
* information and library science
* linguistics, discourse analysis, language studies
* natural sciences, medicine
Topics of interest to the symposium include, but are not limited to:
* wiki technologies and implementations
* wiki in the workplace; for business use
* wiki as social software for collaboration and work group processes
* wiki user experiences, usability, discourse analysis
* wiki for non-text media (images, video, audio) and spatial systems
* wiki content dynamics and evolution, wiki metrics
* wiki journalism; wiki archiving
* wiki reputation systems, quality assurance processes
* wiki administration, processes, dealing with abuse
* wiki scalability, social and technical
* wiki and the semantic web, knowledge management, tacit-knowledge
* wikis for specific domains (education, genomics, politics, etc.)
* wikis written by and for small audiences (ex: family wikis)
* wiki legal issues (copyright, licensing)
* wiki translation and multilingual wiki content
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Research papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee to meet
rigorous academic standards of publication. Research papers are
expected to advance the state of the art by describing substantiated
new research or novel technical results or by reporting on significant
experience (including case studies) or experimentation. They will be
reviewed both with respect to conceptual quality and clarity of
presentation. Note that authors of accepted papers are expected to attend
the conference and present the paper, otherwise publication will be
canceled.
Accepted research papers will be provided as part of the conference
proceedings. They will be put into the ACM Digital Library and can be
referenced as papers that appeared in the "Proceedings of the 2007
International Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym 2007)". We invite full papers
(recommended length of 10 to 15 pages with maximum of 20 pages, and a 30
minute
presentation time) and short papers (maximum 6 pages, with a 15 minute
presentation time). Papers should use the ACM SIG Proceedings Format,
see: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html
Workshop and Panels submissions will be reviewed and selected for
their interest to the community. A submission should consist of two
pages describing what you intend to do and how you meet this
criterion. It should include a 100-word abstract and one-paragraph
bios of all people relevant to the submission. Workshops will be
allocated a half-day or a full-day and a room of their own (depending
on your request). Panels will be given a 90 minutes time slot and a
room of their own.
Poster submissions will be reviewed on their merits and may describe
research projects or experience reports. A submission should consist
of two page extended abstract outlining the content of the
poster. Successful applicants will be invited to bring a poster for
display at the symposium. Posters must be flat and within 1mx2m in
size.
Demos will be reviewed based on their relevance to the community. A
submission should be one page in length, with a title, a short
description of the demo, as well as a description of any special
technical needs you may have (ex: wireless connectivity).
Please submit your papers or proposals in PDF format by the respective
deadline through our submission system, which will be available
through the WikiSym website. Questions should be directed respectively
at papers(a)wikisym.org (research papers and practitioner reports),
workshopsandpanels(a)wikisym.org (workshops and panels), or
demosandposters(a)wikisym.org (posters and demos).
SYMPOSIUM LOGISTICS
The 2007 International Symposium on Wikis will be held at the Palais
des Congrs in Montreal, Canada, October 21-23, 2007. A special hotel
rate has been negotiated at the Hyatt Regency Montreal. WikiSym 2007
will be co-located with the ACM OOPSLA 2007 conference, and
participants may register for the symposium alone, or may jointly
register for WikiSym and OOPSLA 2007. Registration is handled through
the ACM OOPSLA website: http://oopsla.org/
If you have any questions, please contact Alain Desilets through
chair(a)wikisym.org.
SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE
Alain Dsilet, NRC-CNRC, Canada (Symposium Chair)
Robert Biddle, Carleton University, Canada (Program Chair)
Phoebe Ayers, U. of California Davis, USA (Wikimedia Liaison and
Publicity)
Angela Beesley, Wikia / Wikimedia, USA (Posters and Demos Chair)
Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, USA (Panels and Workshops Chair)
Ward Cunningham, Eclipse Foundation, USA (Honorary Chair)
Ted Ernst, Open Space World (Open Space Chair)
Andrea Forte, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA (Publicity Chair)
Dirk Riehle, SAP, USA (Treasurer and Corporate Sponsorships)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki.org and StructuredWikis LLC, USA (Web Master)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Ademar Aguiar, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Phoebe Ayers, University of California Davis, United States
Angela Beesley, Wikimedia / Wikia, United Kingdom
Amy Bruckman, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, United States
Robert Biddle, Carleton University, Canada
Sally Jo Cunningham, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Alain Dsilets, National Research Council, Canada
Mark Gaved, The Open University, United Kingdom
Brian Greenspan, Carleton University, Canada
Beat Doebeli Honegger, UAS Northwestern, Switzerland
Matthias Jugel, Fraunhofer FIRST, Germany
Elizabeth Da Lio, Marche Polytechnic University, Italy
Ann Majchrzak, University of Southern California, United States
Sky Marsen, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Michele Notari, University of Applied Sciences Berne, Switzerland
Alejandro Ramirez, Carleton University, Canada
Dirk Riehle, SAP Research, United States
Hugh Robinson, The Open University, United Kingdom
Cristoff Sauer, Hochschule Heilbronn, Germany
Till Schuemmer, FernUniversitaet in Hagen, Germany
Sunir Shah, BibWiki.com, Canada
Robert Tolksdorf, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Brion Vibber, Wikimedia Foundation, United States
Max Vlkel, FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik Karlsruhe, Germany
Jacob Voss, Wikimedia Deutschland, Germany
Christian Wagner, City University of Hong Kong, China
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HYPERTEXT AND SOCIETY
ACM Hypertext 2007
Call for Participation
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Hypertext and Society Programme
Eighteenth International ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia
Manchester, UK 10th - 12th September 2007
http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/home/htsociety.php
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ACM Hypertext 2007 consists of five autonomous programmes under a
single unified conference. The Hypertext and Society programme aims
to explore developments in Hypertext and innovative technologies
where the defining feature is the existence of communities of users.
It is our hope that the Hypertext and Society Programme will offer a
high quality venue for this exciting new area.
TOPICS
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We seek papers that explore applications, implementations,
implications and evaluation, and necessary models and standards for
such systems, including:
* Mapping and Visualisation of social spaces and networks
* Blogs and alternative Blog forms (podcasting, photologs etc.)
* Collaborative working
* Wikis
* Forums
* Semantic Wikis
* Folksonomy, tagging, annotation and metadata
* Recommender systems
* Social networks and communities of practice
* Social software for learning
* Citation networks
* Virtual presence, identity and trust
* Multi-user Games
We are also seeking papers that explore the implementation and impact
of such systems user communities such as:
* Governments
* Developing regions
* Virtual organisations
* E-commerce
* Education
* Health care
We understand the term hypertext in the broadest sense encompassing a
wide range of multimedia applications.
SUBMISSIONS
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Participants are invited to submit Technical Papers, Hypertexts,
Poster and Demonstration papers. All submissions must be formatted
using the official ACM SIG proceedings template.
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html).
Technical (4 pages Short & 10 pages Full)
Hypertexts (Zip-File / URL & 2 pages)
- Submission: 7th May 2007 Midnight HST
- Notification: 4th Jun 2007 Midnight HST
- Camera Copy: 2nd Jul 2007 Midnight HST
Posters & Demos (2 pages)
- Submission: 11th Jun 2007 Midnight HST
- Notification: 18th Jun 2007 Midnight HST
- Camera Copy: 2nd Jul 2007 Midnight HST
We have also included a Student Research Competition programme. The
aim of this is to encourage research students to submit their work in
order to obtain valuable feedback and to also become involved within
the hypertext community.
Student Research Competition (2 pages)
- Submission: 7th May 2007 Midnight HST
- Notification: 4th Jun 2007 Midnight HST
- Camera Copy: 2nd Jul 2007 Midnight HST
Technical papers, poster abstracts, and demonstration abstracts will
appear in the official conference proceedings, published by ACM.
Conference attendees will receive a copy of the proceedings. All
material will be available through the ACM Digital Library.
CONFERENCE LOCATION
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The conference will take place on the 10th, 11th and 12th September
2007, within the Manchester Museum in Manchester, UK. The museum is
located within the centre of The University of Manchester campus and
is within easy access of several tourist attractions and the city
centre of Manchester.
Located in the North West of the UK, Manchester is easily reachable
by air, rail, and car. Further information of how to get to the
conference venue can be found in the travel section. Being in a
central location of the country, Manchester also acts as a good base
for travelling further a field around the UK, with all the major
roads and railway lines passing through the City. London is only 2
hours away by train whilst Edinburgh, the Capital City of Scotland,
is only 3 and a half hours away.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
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Hypertext and Society Autonomous Programme Committee
Co-chairs:
Hugh Davis (University of Southampton, UK)
David Millard (University of Southampton, UK)
Programme Committee:
Mark Bernstein (Eastgate Systems)
Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Darina Dicheva (Winston-Salem State University, USA)
Peter Dolog (Aalborg University, Denmark)
James Noble (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ)
Demetrios Sampson (University of Piraeus, Greece)
Sunir Shah (Meatball)
Josie Taylor (The Open University, UK)
Vincent Wade (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)
Enquiries may be directed to Hugh Davis at hcd(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk
Hi all,
I'm completing a Master's thesis in Telecommunication, Information Studies
and Media at Michigan State University. My topic is, of course, Wikipedia.
You may have seen my advertisement for research subjects on the wikipedia-l
list or at the Village Pump. I'm doing in-depth interviews with
contributors... basically my perspective is Wikipedia as a public good and
"why" individuals contribute, following the work of Olson; Ostrom; Kollock &
Smith; Bimber, Flanagin, & Stohl; Forte & Bruckman; and others.
I've already received several queries regarding the limitation of
interviewees to U.S. residents. Frankly, it's an IRB restriction, and the
decision was made that excluding other English speakers is not a liability
in a small, purposive sample.
I'd be interested in any comments or feedback, and am willing to entertain
questions. Thanks, and have a great night!
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Benjamin Johnson
MA Student in Information, Policy and Society
Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media
428 Communication Arts and Sciences
East Lansing, MI 48824
Cell: 517.230.1272
john2429(a)msu.edu
New journal, perhaps of interest.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns(a)vt.edu>
Date: Mar 15, 2007 7:08 AM
Subject: [Asis-l] new Journal: International Journal of Internet Research Ethics
To: Asis-l(a)asis.org
Distribute as appropriate:
>
International Journal of Internet Research Ethics
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SOIS/cipr/ijire.html
Description and Scope:
The IJIRE is the first peer-reviewed online journal, dedicated
specifically to cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural research on
Internet Research Ethics. All disciplinary perspectives, from those
in the arts and humanities, to the social, behavioral, and biomedical
sciences, are reflected in the journal.
With the emergence of Internet use as a research locale and tool
throughout the 1990s, researchers from disparate disciplines, ranging
from the social sciences to humanities to the sciences, have found a
new fertile ground for research opportunities that differ greatly
from their traditional biomedical counterparts. As such,
"populations," locales, and spaces that had no corresponding physical
environment became a focal point, or site of research activity. Human
subjects protections questions then began to arise, across
disciplines and over time: What about privacy? How is informed
consent obtained? What about research on minors? What are "harms" in
an online environment? Is this really human subjects work? More
broadly, are the ethical obligations of researchers conducting
research online somehow different from other forms of research ethics
practices?
As Internet Research Ethics has developed as its own field and
discipline, additional questions have emerged: How do diverse
methodological approaches result in distinctive ethical conflicts –
and, possibly, distinctive ethical resolutions? How do diverse
cultural and legal traditions shape what are perceived as ethical
conflicts and permissible resolutions? How do researchers
collaborating across diverse ethical and legal domains recognize and
resolve ethical issues in ways that recognize and incorporate often
markedly different ethical understandings?
Finally, as "the Internet" continues to transform and diffuse, new
research ethics questions arise – e.g., in the areas of blogging,
social network spaces, etc. Such questions are at the heart of IRE
scholarship, and such general areas as anonymity, privacy, ownership,
authorial ethics, legal issues, research ethics principles (justice,
beneficence, respect for persons), and consent are appropriate areas
for consideration.
The IJIRE will publish articles of both theoretical and practical
nature to scholars from all disciplines who are pursuing—or reviewing—
IRE work. Case studies of online research, theoretical analyses, and
practitioner-oriented scholarship that promote understanding of IRE
at ethics and institutional review boards, for instance, are
encouraged. Methodological differences are embraced.
I don't see many people recommending already-written papers about
Wikimedia projects on this mailing list, so I thought I'd recommend
one.
http://afflatus.ucd.ie/Papers/ecai2006.pdf
The paper is about "a system for dynamic lexicon growth that harvests
and semantically analyses new lexical forms from Wikipedia, to
automatically enrich WordNet as these new word forms are minted."
It's an interesting read about semantic information that can be
extracted from Wikipedia as-is. A useful derivitive use of what we're
putting together.
A second paper also covers the semantic extraction of a knowledge base
of 5 million facts from Wikipedia. "The facts have been automatically
extracted from Wikipedia and married with WordNet, using a carefully
designed combination of rule-based and heuristic methods described in
this paper." (http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~suchanek/publications/www2007.pdf)
Credit to Chris Bizer for posting the former paper, and Sören Auer for
the latter on the Dbpedia-discussion mailing list.
--
Oldak Quill (oldakquill(a)gmail.com)
We would like to announce two new papers using Wikipedia.
We hope that the results will be of use for the Wikipedia research
community.
(1)
Torsten Zesch, Iryna Gurevych (2007)
''Analysis of the Wikipedia Category Graph for NLP Applications.''
Proceedings of the TextGraphs-2 Workshop (NAACL-HLT)
http://elara.tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/publications/2007/hlt-textgraphs…
In this paper, we discuss the Wikipedia category graph. We perform a
graphtheoretic analysis and show that it is a scale-free, small
world graph like other well-known lexical semantic networks.
(2)
In this paper, we show how Wikipedia can be used for computing semantic
relatedness between terms. Wikipedia outperforms classical semantic
wordnets on the task of estimating non-classical semantic relations.
Torsten Zesch, Iryna Gurevych, Max Mühlhäuser (2007)
''Comparing Wikipedia and German Wordnet by Evaluating Semantic
Relatedness on Multiple Datasets.''
Proceedings of NAACL-HLT
http://elara.tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/publications/2007/hlt-short.pdf
Best regards,
Torsten
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Dipl.-Inf. Torsten Zesch
Doctoral Researcher
Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Group
Darmstadt University of Technology
WWW: http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de
Hi all - this is to let you know that there will be an IRC meeting
about Wikiversity research this Saturday (10th) @ 22:00 UTC in
freenode channel #wikiversity. This is in advance of the board's
meeting about Wikiversity (scheduled to take place the following
Friday, 16th), and is a crucial aspect to Wikiversity's move out of
its "beta phase". Board members are, as ever, particularly welcome.
:-)
Further details of the meeting are at:
<http://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:IRC_meeting_about_research>.
Links to relevant work-pages to be edited and discussed can be found
there. For info on timezones, see:
<http://worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_UTC.aspx> and/or
<http://www.worldtimezone.com>.
Hope to see you there - if you can't make it, and want to add
something to the agenda, please do so at the page given above.
Cheers,
Cormac
http://cormaggio.orghttp://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:Cormaggio
A handful of students in a class I teach hadn't realized that the Wikipedia
was 1) user written, 2) editable, or 3) discussable. They never even tried
the tabs at the top, so a student put the question to me in class today:
how many of those that access a page access its discussion page? On
#wikipedia folks noted that such a feature is possible with Wikimedia but
disabled and any such statistics are hard to get since there's so much and
can hurt performance if enabled.
Any other thoughts?