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*1st International Workshop on Collaborative Information Retrieval*

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In conjunction with JCDL 2008

Joint Conference on Digital Libraries



Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA June 16-20, 2008 http://www.jcdl2008.org/workshops.html

Workshop Date: June 20, 2008





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About this Workshop:

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Support for explicit collaboration is becoming increasingly important for certain kinds of collection-building activities in digital libraries. In the last few years, several research groups have pursued various issues related to collaboration during search. We can represent collaboration in search on two dimensions - synchrony and intent.



Synchronous, explicit search has some interesting characteristics that distinguish it from asynchronous, implicit collaborative search (e.g., collaborative filtering, recommendation engines). There is much more emphasis on interaction, as the system has to not only communicate search results to users, but also mediate some forms of communication and data sharing among its users in near real time. There are new algorithms that need to be invented that use inputs from multiple people to produce search results, and new evaluation metrics need to be invented that reflect the collaborative and interactive nature of the task. Finally, we need to integrate the expertise of library and information science researchers and practitioners by revisiting real-world information seeking situations with an eye for explicit, synchronous collaborative search.



The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers interested in various aspects of small-team collaborative search to share ideas, to stimulate research in the area, and to increase the visibility of this emerging area. We expect to identify promising directions for further exploration and to establish collaborative links among research groups.



We are looking for previously-unpublished contributions in the following areas of collaborative search:



- *User Interfaces*: Shared awareness, coordination, communication, interaction design, input and display devices, etc.

- *Retrieval Algorithms*: Coordination of input, fusion, distribution of search results, modified ranking algorithms, etc.

- *Evaluation*: Novel evaluation methodology to assess collaborative system performance and to compare different systems, novel metrics, empirical study (qualitative and quantitative) of potential user groups and applications, etc.



Please submit your position papers in PDF format through our website at http://workshops.fxpal.com/jcdl2008/. Papers should be in ACM format, and should be two to four pages long.





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Important Dates:

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May 2, 2008 Deadline for paper submission May 9, 2008 Notification to authors May 16, 2008 Camera-ready copy due May 19, 2008 JCDL Early Registration deadline June 20, 2008 Workshop



Contributions will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of our program committee.





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Workshop Organization:

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Jeremy Pickens, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc.

Gene Golovchinsky, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc.

Meredith Ringel Morris, Microsoft Research



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Information about the workshop can be found at http://www.jcdl2008.org/workshops.html

The workshop site is http://workshops.fxpal.com/jcdl2008





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Program Committee:

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Colum Foley, Dublin City University

Gene Golovchinsky, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc.

Diane Kelly, UNC Chapel Hill

Gary Marchionini, UNC Chapel Hill

Meredith Ringel Morris, Microsoft Research Jeremy Pickens, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc.

Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University





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