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BooksOnline'11 Workshop:  Online Books, Complementary Social Media 
and Crowdsourcing

CIKM 2011, October 24, 2011, Glasgow, UK
<http://research.microsoft.com/booksonline11>

Call for Contributions  Submission Deadline: July 10, 2011
Goals

The BooksOnline workshops aim to foster research initiatives that are 
focused on innovation opportunities and challenges created by large 
collections of digital books. This year, the workshop will explore 
the role of social media and crowdsourcing in the context of online 
books, defining new user experiences on the web.

Examples of where social media is promoting online book usage include 
LibraryThing.com and Amazon1s book service that integrates with 
Kindle. Crowdsourcing has also been used in building benchmarks for 
the evaluation of book search engines. However, these are merely the 
tip of the potential opportunities that such social engagement models 
and platforms can offer to online book services. Since immersion and 
supporting infrastructure are clearly vital to the future of digital 
library platforms, the workshop will aim to unearth these potentials 
to advance both theory and development in designing user experiences 
and developing technology for supporting such experiences.

Confirmed Keynote Speaker

Ville Miettinnen, CEO of Microtask
3Digitalkoot - Electrifying the Finnish Cultural Heritage2

Microtask is a Finnish technology company founded to create a 
technology platform for crowdsourcing and distributed work. Their 
product, Microtask Platform, is a software platform for global 
distribution of short-duration tasks to online workers. The system 
supports automated quality assurance and provides service-level 
agreements for task quality and turnaround times. The most notable 
use case for such tasks has been human-assisted optical character 
recognition, for example, in digitized books.

More to be announcedS

Workshop format

The one day workshop will include keynote presentations, paper 
presentations in panel sessions covering both ongoing research 
efforts and proposals for new initiatives, a poster session, and a 
break-out session.



Best Paper and Best Project Proposal awards

A seed fund of £3,000, provided by Microsoft Research, will be 
awarded to one or more selected projects or papers as judged by the 
workshop organizers and a selected panel of experts.

Topics of interest
We invite submissions of full research papers (up to 10 pages) 
describing novel developments and research, or position papers and 
project proposals (up to 5 pages) presenting ideas, goals or 
directions of work, highlighting pressing issues or opportunities for 
innovation involving digital books and complementary media. Topics of 
interest include, but are not limited to:
·         New paradigms for digital books, paper vs. electronic 
media, affordances of books and eBooks;
·         Social reading, search, recommendations, navigation and 
annotations; sharing, collaboration and co-authoring; community 
building through shared content and annotation;
·         Crowd as library assistant; paid and for-fun social 
engagement; crowdsourcing for personalization, book recommendations; 
hybrid computer-human systems for digital libraries;
·         Virtual learning environments; eBooks in teaching; eBooks 
as integrated content and media; emersion in the user experience;
·         Extracting semantics and knowledge from books; linking and 
sense making; cross-referencing, and knowledge sharing; community 
interests and social context;
·         Evaluating eBooks, interface and interaction designs for 
active reading, features for collection browsing, mining social media 
reviews on usability issues; using crowdsourcing for evaluation;
·         Infrastructures; indexing and content representation; 
scalability and interoperability; technologies for searching, 
browsing, filtering, and information extraction; integration of 
complementary content and services; supporting rich media experiences 
for online books; integrating social platforms; tagging, reviewing, 
recommendations;
·         Universal access to online books across nations and cultures.

Important dates
Paper submission deadline: July 10, 2011
Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2011
Camera-ready deadline: August 12, 2011
Workshop: October 24, 2011

Paper submission and participation

Submissions must be written in English, formatted using the 
<http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates> ACM 
templates 
(<http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates>http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates): 
using the "Option 2" style. This is also the style that will be 
required for final papers. Papers must be submitted as pdf files.

Accepted workshop papers will be published in the CIKM workshop 
proceedings, which will be printed on CD only and indexed in the ACM 
digital library, together with the main CIKM 2011 proceedings. One 
author per accepted paper is required to register and attend the 
workshop.

To submit a research paper (6-10 pages), position paper or project 
proposal (2-5 pages), please go to the 
<http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=booksonline11> 
BooksOnline'11 Easychair submission site.


Organizers

Gabriella Kazai (Microsoft Research, UK)
Carsten Eickhoff (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

Further information

For further information, please visit 
<http://research.microsoft.com/booksonline11/>

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