Please note: Co-located with Wikimania 2013!
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GENERAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (PAPERS)
WikiSym, the 9th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
OpenSym, the 2013 International Symposium on Open Collaboration
August 5-7, 2013 | Hong Kong, China
ACM In-cooperation with SIGWEB and SIGSOFT
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
The 2013 Joint International Symposium on Open Collaboration (WikiSym +
OpenSym 2013) is the premier conference on open collaboration research,
including wikis and social media, Wikipedia, free, libre, and open source
software, open access, open data and open government research. WikiSym is in
its 9th year and will be complemented by OpenSym, a new conference on open
collaboration research and an adjunct to the successful WikiSym conference series.
WikiSym + OpenSym 2013 is the first conference to bring together the different
strands of open collaboration research, seeking to create synergies and
inspire new research between computer scientists, social scientists, legal
scholars, and everyone interested in understanding open collaboration and how
it is changing the world.
WikiSym + OpenSym 2013 will be held in Hong Kong, China, on August 5-7, 2013.
WikiSym is in-cooperation with ACM SIGWEB and OpenSym is in-cooperation with
ACM SIGSOFT.
RESEARCH PAPER CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The joint conference will contain peer-reviewed research tracks on
* Open collaboration (wikis, social media, etc.) research (WikiSym 2013),
chaired by Jude Yew of National University of Singapore
* Wikipedia research (WikiSym 2013), chaired jointly by Heather Ford and Mark
Graham of the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford
* Free, libre, and open source software research (OpenSym 2013), chaired
jointly by Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona and Gregorio Robles of Universidad Rey
Juan Carlos
* Open access, data, and government research (OpenSym 2013), chaired by Anne
Fitzgerald of Queensland University of Technology
Research papers present integrative reviews or original reports of substantive
new work: theoretical, empirical, and/or in the design, development and/or
deployment of novel concepts, systems, and mechanisms. Research papers will be
reviewed by a research track program committee to meet rigorous academic
standards of publication. Papers will be reviewed for relevance, conceptual
quality, innovation and clarity of presentation.
Each track has its own call for papers, which you can find at
http://www.wikisym.org/email/ and
http://www.opensym.org/email/. Submission
deadline is March 17, 2013.
Authors, whose submitted papers have been accepted for presentation at the
conference have a choice of
* having their paper become part of the official proceedings, archived in the
ACM Digital Library,
* having their paper become part of an extended web-only proceedings on
wikisym.org and
opensym.org,
* having no publication incident at all but only the presentation at the
conference.
WikiSym + OpenSym seeks to accommodate the needs of the different research
disciplines it draws on.
DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
WikiSym + OpenSym seeks to explore the synergies between all strands of open
collaboration research. Thus, we will have one doctoral symposium, in which
Ph.D. students from different disciplines can present their work and receive
feedback from senior faculty and their peers.
The call for papers for the doctoral symposium can be found at
http://www.wikisym.org/email/ and
http://www.opensym.org/email/. Submission
deadline is April 14, 2013.
COMMUNITY TRACK CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
WikiSym + OpenSym is also seeking submissions for experience reports (long and
short), tutorials, workshops, panels, non-research posters, and demos. Such
work accepted for presentation or performance at the conference is considered
part of the community track. It will be put into the proceedings in a
community track section; authors can opt-out of the publication, as with
research papers.
The call for submissions to the community track can be found at
http://www.wikisym.org/email/ and
http://www.opensym.org/email/. Submission
deadline is May 17, 2013.
THE WIKISYM + OPENSYM CONFERENCE EXPERIENCE
WikiSym + OpenSym 2013 will be held in Hong Kong on August 5-7, 2013. Research
paper presentations and community presentations and performances will be
accompanied by keynotes, invited speakers, and a social program in one of the
most vibrant cities on this planet.
The open space track is a key ingredient of the event that distinguishes
WikiSym + OpenSym 2013 from other conferences. It is an integral part of the
program that makes it easy to talk to other researchers and to stretch your
imagination and conversations beyond the limits of your own subdiscipline,
exposing you to the full breadth of open collaboration research. The open
space track is entirely participant-organized, is open for everyone, and
requires no submission or review.
The conference is organized (general chairs) by
* Ademar Aguiar of Universidade do Porto,
* Dirk Riehle of Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, and
* Waltraut Ritter of City University of Hong Kong.
Feel free to contact us at info(a)wikisym.org or info(a)opensym.org with any
questions you might have.
CfP on the web:
http://wp.me/pezfy-gh