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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