Hypertext 2008 The Nineteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia
*** Linking people and places ***
*** Four Autonomous Track Programs, One Unified Conference ***
http://www.ht2008.org/
June 19th-21st 2008, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Technical Paper Stream submission deadline: February 11th 2008
- Posters and Demonstrations submission deadline: March 28th 2008
Call for Papers
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In 2007, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the ACM Conference on
Hypertext and Hypermedia series which is the acknowledged venue for
high quality peer-reviewed research on linking. The web, the
semantic web and Web 2.0 are all manifestations of the success of
the link. The Hypertext Conference provides the forum for research
that considers links, their semantics, their presentation, the
applications they have been put to, the knowledge that can be derived
from their analysis and their effect on society. If information is
connected, then the connection is called a link: the Hypertext
Conference is concerned with all research concerning links.
Recent hypertext conferences have experimented with various
approaches to reaching a wider community of researchers and
encouraging them that their work is within the scope of the Hypertext
Conference, and that their submissions will be reviewed by a program
committee that are on the leading edge of their topic. To this end,
this yearıs conference will consist of four independent tracks, each
with their own track committee, coordinated by an overall Program
Chair.
1. Information Linking and Organization (Chairs: Paul de Bra
and Frank Shipman)
2. Social Linking (Chairs: Filippo Menczer and Ciro Cattuto)
3. Applications of Hypertext (Chair: Erik Duval)
4. Hypertext, Culture, and Communication (Chair: Mark Bernstein)
Authors are invited to submit papers directly to these tracks.
However, where authors are unsure of which track to submit to they
are encouraged to discuss the matter with the Program Chair (Hugh
Davis, [log in to unmask]).
Information Linking and Organization
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Throughout the history of the ACM Hypertext Conference, researchers
have tried to capture what hypertext really is, either for hypertext
in general or for specific types of hypertext. The Information
linking and organization program specifically targets the formal
study of scholarly, structural, sculptural, spatial, open, dynamic
and adaptive or any other type of hypertext (or Web-based Information
System). The aim of this track is to bring researchers together to
discuss models, architecture, interfaces, properties, or theory in
general, about hypertext and hypermedia. Topics for consideration
include:
- Hypertext Models
- Spatial Hypertext
- Information Structuring
- Knowledge Management
- Self-Organized Hypertext
- Personal Information Organization
- Intelligent Hypertext,
- Open Hypertext
- Link Generation
- Adaptive Navigation Support
- Web Engineering
Social Linking
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One of the most exciting recent developments in Web science is the
rise of social annotation, by which users can easily markup other
authors' resources via collaborative mechanisms such as tagging,
filtering, voting, editing, classification, and rating. These social
processes lead to the emergence of many types of links between texts,
users, concepts, pages, articles, media, and so on. We welcome
submissions on design, analysis, and modeling of information systems
driven by social linking. Topics of interest include:
- Design of collaborative annotation mechanisms
- Critical mass and incentives of social participation (e.g. games)
- User interfaces for collaborative annotation
- Applications to search, retrieval, recommendation, and navigation
- Explicit vs. inferred social links (e.g. mining query logs)
- Integration with content-based systems (e.g. linking in blogs)
- Socially induced measures of similarity, relatedness, or distance
- Co-evolution of social, information, and semantic networks
- Analysis of structure and dynamics of social information networks
- Behavioral patterns of social linking
- Linguistic analysis of social annotation spaces
- Formal and generative models of social annotation
- Unstructured vs. structured social knowledge representations
- Implementation and scalability of social link representations
- Automatic and user-based evaluation
- Robustness against spam and other forms of social abuse
- Mapping and Visualization of social spaces and networks
Applications of Hypertext
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The applications track focuses on how hypertext approaches and
technologies can be applied in diverse domains, including, but not
restricted to:
- technology enhanced learning
- cultural heritage
- personal information management
- music information retrieval
- performance support systems
- commerce sites
- geo-spatial information systems
- medical and health systems
Proposals can focus more on the technological approaches or on the
added value that the hypertext application provides. User and
evaluation studies are welcome in this track.
Hypertext, Culture, and Communication
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What remains to be learned about the craft of hypertext? Hypertext
'08 seeks contributions - either as conventional papers or as
hypertexts - that explore, examine, and reflect upon the creation of
literary machines ranging from literary fiction to creative
nonfiction and scholarly argumentation. Suggested topics include, but
are not limited to:
- Hypertext literature
- Theory and practice of expression in wikis, weblogs, and social spaces
- Hypertext editing, criticism, and instruction
- Personal journals, weblogs, and social media
- Preservation, archives, and personal media collections
- Net art, literary hypertext, interactive fiction, and games
The Program and Critical Dates
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Technical Paper Stream
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February 11th 2008 submission deadline
March 21st 2008 authors informed of results of reviewing
April 4th 2008 final Papers to ACM
Full technical papers (10 pages) should present significant
scientific advances that are at a mature stage of development. We are
looking for full papers that present relevant contributions to
research, development, and practice in the area of hypertext and
hypermedia. We are also interested in survey papers which present an
authoritative and original perspective on an area of interest.
Short papers (5 pages) should present interesting recent results or
novel thought-provoking ideas that are not quite ready for a regular
full-length paper, or where the research has limited scope or the
results have lesser significance.
Posters and Demonstrations
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March 28th 2008 submission deadline
April 9th 2008 committee decisions to authors
April 16th 2008 final copy to ACM
Poster presentations and demonstrations (2 pages in the proceedings)
are solicited, which present new ideas, generate interest in a
research area, or describe or demonstrate useful or interesting work
that is not substantial enough for a technical paper presentation.
Hyperdrama Festival (Organizer Mark Bernstein)
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Scripts and proposals are sought for the First International
Hyperdrama Festival, a collection of staged readings and performances
of interactive and interlinked dramatic art in conjunction with
Hypertext '08. Scripts and proposals will be judged for dramatic
merit, hypertextual interest, and produceability; minimal sets and
costumes are encouraged.
Submission
==========
All submissions must be written in English, which is the official
language of the conference. Full papers must be no longer than 10
pages, Short papers no longer than 5 pages, and Posters/Demos no
longer than 2 pages overall, including title, references, figures,
diagrams, appendices, etc. All submissions should be formatted
according to the official ACM SIG proceedings template
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html) and must be
submitted as PDF documents. It is the responsibility of all authors
to produce PDF documents that can be read and printed on any
platform. The program committee reserves the right to reject
incorrectly formatted submissions without reviewing.
Technical papers (Full and Short), posters, and demos for Hypertext
2008 must be submitted via EasyChair submission management system
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ht2008). Hyperdrama
Festival submissions should be sent directly to the organizer, Mark
Bernstein.
Accepted refereed papers will appear in the conference proceedings
published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and will
also be accessible to the general public via ACM Digital Library.
Authors of accepted papers will be required to release copyright to
the ACM.
Organizaton
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General Chair: Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh
Program Chair: Hugh Davis, University of Southampton, UK
LOC Chair: Stephen Hirtle, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Treasurer: Rosta Farzan, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Workshop Chair: David Millard, University of Southampton, UK
Program Track Chairs
Information Linking and Organization
Paul de Bra, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
Frank Shipman, Texas A&M University, USA
Social Linking
Filippo Menczer, Indiana University, USA
Ciro Cattuto, ISI foundation, Italy
Applications of Hypertext
Erik Duval, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Hypertext, Culture, and Communication
Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, Inc., USA
Hyperdrama Festival: Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, Inc., USA
Location
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The conference will take place June 19-21, 2008, in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, and is being hosted by the School of Information
Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. Following our theme of
"linking people and places," it is of interest to note that in 1998,
the ACM Hypertext and Digital Libraries conferences were co-located
in Pittsburgh, PA. This was extremely appropriate as the Hypertext
Conference examines one of the core technologies that supports the
development and management of digital libraries. Soon after 1998,
the Digital Libraries Conference evolved into the Joint Conference on
Digital Libraries (JCDL), a stand-alone event. It's only fitting
that a conference celebrating links is again linked to JCDL in
Pittsburgh ten years later.
The Pittsburgh area is home to more than 25 colleges and
universities, resulting in a vibrant and diverse community of
learners and teachers. The region welcomes more than 10 million
visitors each year, who enjoy amenities and cultural attractions
including the world-class Carnegie Museums, the outstanding
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the decades-long tradition of
major league sports! Pittsburgh is centrally located, being within
90 minutes flying time of the countryıs major metropolitan areas.
While being challenged by the presentations at Hypertext 2008, donıt
miss an opportunity to sample the museums, the performing arts
organizations and the cityıs charming and diverse neighborhoods.
The conference hotel, the Omni William Penn Hotel, is an ultimate
luxury hotel in downtown Pittsburgh. Conference sessions, workshops
and tutorials will take place at the hotel.
--
Peter Brusilovsky
School of Information Sciences
University of Pittsburgh
135 North Bellefield Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Phone: 412 624 9404 +++ Fax: 412 624 2788
WWW: http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~peterb
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