OPENSYM 2015, THE 11TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON OPEN COLLABORATION
August 19-21, 2015 | San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
http://opensym.org/os2015 | ACM SIWEB and ACM SIGSOFT supported
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
The 11th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym 2015) is the
premier conference on open collaboration research and practice, including
free/libre/open source software, open data, IT-driven open innovation
research, wikis and related open collaborative media, and Wikipedia and
related Wikimedia projects.
OpenSym brings together the different strands of open collaboration research
and practice, seeking to create synergies and inspire new collaborations
between computer science and information systems researchers, social
scientists, legal scholars, and everyone interested in understanding open
collaboration and how it is changing the world.
OpenSym 2015 will be held in San Francisco, California, on *August 19-21, 2015*.
This is the general call for papers and includes the
- research track call for submissions,
- industry and community track call for submissions, and
- doctoral symposium call for submissions.
OpenSym is held in-cooperation with ACM SIGWEB and ACM SIGSOFT. As in previous
years, the conference proceedings will be archived in the ACM digital library.
RESEARCH TRACK CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The conference provides the following peer-reviewed research tracks.
- Free/libre/open source software research, chaired by Carlos Jensen of Oregon
State University and Gregorio Robles of Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. This
track seeks papers on all aspects of FLOSS. For detailed topics and the
research track committee please see http://wp.me/Pezfy-IU.
- IT-driven open innovation research, chaired by Ann Majchrzak of University
of Southern California and Arvind Malhotra of University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. This track is devoted to research on the process of expanding
research and development activities beyond the boundaries of single company
structures. For detailed topics and the research track committee please see
http://wp.me/Pezfy-J3.
Open data research, chaired by Carl Lagoze of University of Michigan. This
track contributes to the increasing awareness on Open Data in research. For
detailed topics and the research track committee please see http://wp.me/Pezfy-J5.
- Wikis and open collaboration research, chaired by Kevin Crowston of Syracuse
University. This track is dedicated to the science and application of wikis
and open collaboration technology outside of the context of Wikipedia. For
detailed topics and the research track committee please see http://wp.me/Pezfy-J7.
- Wikipedia and related projects research, chaired by Claudia Müller-Birn of
Freie Universität Berlin and Aaron Shaw of Northwestern University. This track
addresses research specifically on Wikipedia and associated projects. For
detailed topics and the research track committee please see http://wp.me/Pezfy-J9.
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.
Authors can submit full papers (5-10 pages), short papers (2-4 pages), and
research posters (1-2 pages). For more details on paper types please see
http://wp.me/Pezfy-Je.
Submission deadline for all research contributions is *March 29th, 2015*.
Authors submit through EasyChair at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opensym2015. Submissions and final
contributions must follow the ACM SIG Proceedings template found at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates.
OpenSym seeks to accommodate the needs of the different research disciplines
it draws on. Authors whose submissions 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, or having
- only a short abstract included in the proceedings (rather than the full
submitted paper) in order to preserve future publication possibilities.
DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
OpenSym seeks to explore the synergies between all strands of open
collaboration research. Thus, we will have a doctoral symposium, in which
Ph.D. students from different disciplines can present their work and receive
feedback from senior faculty and their peers.
Submission deadline for doctoral symposium position papers is *May 3rd, 2015*.
Authors submit through EasyChair at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opensym2015. Submissions and final
contributions must follow the ACM SIG Proceedings template found at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates.
More information is available at http://wp.me/Pezfy-Jh.
INDUSTRY AND COMMUNITY TRACK CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
OpenSym is also seeking submissions for experience reports (full 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 industry and community track. It will be put into the proceedings in an
industry and community track section; authors can opt-out of the publication,
as with research papers, but will still have to provide an abstract (less than
one page) for the proceedings.
Submission deadline for industry and community track papers is *April 19, 2015*.
Authors submit through EasyChair at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opensym2015. Submissions and final
contributions must follow the ACM SIG Proceedings template found at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates.
More information is available at http://wp.me/Pezfy-Jh.
THE OPENSYM CONFERENCE EXPERIENCE
OpenSym 2015 will be held in San Francisco, California, on August 19-21, 2015.
Research, industry, 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
OpenSym from other conferences. It is an integral part of the program that
makes it easy to talk to other researchers and practitioners and to stretch
your imagination and conversations beyond the limits of your own
sub-discipline, 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 general chair of the conference is Dirk Riehle of Friedrich-Alexander
University Erlangen-Nürnberg. Feel free to contact us with any questions you
might have at info(a)opensym.org.
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Website: http://dirkriehle.com - Twitter: @dirkriehle
Ph (DE): +49-157-8153-4150 - Ph (US): +1-650-450-8550
**Apologies for cross-posting**
#SMSociety15 - Social Media & Society Conference Updates:
Table of Content
1) Keynote - Dr. William H. Dutton
2) Workshop/Tutorial Proposals - Due February 2
3) Call for Submissions
4) Conference Publishing Opportunities
5) Interested in Hosting #SMSociety in 2016?
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1) Keynote - Dr. William H. Dutton
We are very excited to announce our keynote for #SMSociety15 - Dr. Bill
Dutton, the Quello Professor of Media and Information Policy at Michigan
State University, where he is the Director of the Quello Center! He was
the Founding Director of Oxford Internet Institute and the first
Professor of Internet Studies at the University of Oxford.
2) Workshop/Tutorial Proposals - Due February 2
Do you work with social media data? We invite you to submit a proposal
for a half-day Workshop or Tutorial on July 27, 2015 that examines a
particular method or tool for the analysis of social media data. See
more info at https://socialmediaandsociety.com/?page_id=1483
* Workshop/tutorial hosts will receive a complimentary conference
registration.
3) Call for Submissions - Various Due Dates
We welcome various submission types: Short Papers, Work-in-Progress
Papers, Posters, and Panels. See more info at
https://socialmediaandsociety.com/?page_id=1483
4) Conference Publishing Opportunities
* All accepted short papers will be published in the ACM Proceedings
http://dl.acm.org/
* Authors of accepted top papers will be invited to submit their full
papers to a special issue of Information, Communication & Society
published by Taylor & Francis
http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rics20
* Authors of accepted short and WIP papers will be invited to submit
their full papers to a special theme issue of Big Data & Society
published by SAGE (open access).
http://bds.sagepub.com/
5) Interested in Hosting #SMSociety in 2016?
If you are interested in hosting the conference in 2016, we would love
to hear from you. Please contact Anatoliy Gruzd to discuss: gruzd(a)ryerson.ca
For more information about the Social Media & Society Conference,
Programme Committee and the CfP:
https://socialmediaandsociety.com/?page_id=1315
And follow us on Twitter @socmediasoc
We look forward to seeing you in Toronto,
The Conference Organizing Committee
Anatoliy Gruzd, Ryerson University @gruzd
Barry Wellman, University of Toronto @barrywellman
Philip H. Mai, Ryerson University @phmai
Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto @jacobsonjenna
For those of you interested in attending, the early registration deadline is January 30.
See also https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:CSCW_2015 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:CSCW_2015>
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CSCW 2015 | March 14-18 | Vancouver, BC, Canada
http://cscw.acm.org <http://cscw.acm.org/>
* Early registration ends January 30th.
* Advance program is available at http://cscw.acm.org/2015/program/ <http://cscw.acm.org/2015/program/>
* Conference hotel rooms are already selling out at $135/night
The 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and
Social Computing (CSCW 2015) will be held March 14-18 in Vancouver, BC,
Canada and is co-located with ACM Learning at Scale.
CSCW is the premier venue for presenting research in the design and use
of technologies that affect groups, organizations, communities, and
networks. Bringing together top researchers and practitioners from
academia and industry in the area of social computing, CSCW encompasses
both the technical and social challenges encountered when supporting
collaboration.
Jeff Hancock from Cornell University will give the opening keynote
address discussing "The Facebook Study: A Personal Account of Data
Science, Ethics and Change."
The closing keynote speaker will be Zeynep Tufekci from University of
North Carolina Chapel Hill, speaking on "Algorithms in our Midst:
Information, Power and Choice when Software is Everywhere."
We are also pleased to announce that Wanda Orlikowski will receive the
CSCW 2015 Lasting Impact Award and present a retrospective on her
groundbreaking 1992 paper, "Learning from Notes: organizational issues
in groupware implementation."
Registration is available at:
http://cscw.acm.org/2015/attend/registration.php <http://cscw.acm.org/2015/attend/registration.php>
Registration questions? Ask Yvonne Lopez
Hotel reservations can be made at:
http://cscw.acm.org/2015/attend/hotel.php <http://cscw.acm.org/2015/attend/hotel.php>
Use #CSCW2015 and follow us at http://twitter.com/ACM_CSCW <http://twitter.com/ACM_CSCW> or
http://www.facebook.com/acmCSCW <http://www.facebook.com/acmCSCW> for updates.
Conference Co-chairs
Dan Cosley, Cornell University
Andrea Forte, Drexel University
chairs2015(a)cscw.acm.org <mailto:chairs2015@cscw.acm.org>
I’ve been discussing with the folks at CrossRef (the largest registry of Digital Object Identifiers, think of it as the ICANN of science) how to accurately measure the impact of traffic driven from Wikipedia/Wikimedia to scholarly resources.
While digging into their data, we realized that since Wikimedia started the HTTPS switchover and an increasing portion of inbound traffic happens over SSL, Wikimedia sites may have stopped advertising themselves as sources of referred traffic to external sites. While this is a literal implication of HTTPS, it means that Wikimedia's impact on traffic directed to other sites is becoming largely invisible and Wikimedia might be turning into a large source of dark traffic.
I wrote a proposal reviewing the CrossRef use case and discussing how other top web properties deal with this issue by adopting a so-called "Referrer Policy”:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_referrer_policy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_referrer_policy>
Feedback is welcome on the talk page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Wikimedia_referrer_policy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Wikimedia_referrer_policy>
Dario
Possibly of interest to any researchers who work with our
pageview/requests data:
I've just release v1.0.0 of urltools,[0] a library that provides very
very fast vectorised URL decoding and parsing. Might be useful for the
useRs in our community! See the associated vignette for
functionality.[1]
[0] https://github.com/Ironholds/urltools
[1] https://github.com/Ironholds/urltools/blob/master/vignettes/urltools.Rmd
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Oliver Keyes
Research Analyst
Wikimedia Foundation
CSCW (ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social
Computing) is just around the corner...
The CSCW conference is one of the major venues for publishing
Wikipedia-related work. This year there are at least 7 papers about
Wikipedia and a workshop on academic and industry open collaboration
research.
Check out the advance program here:
http://confer.csail.mit.edu/cscw2015/schedule
Early bird registration ends Jan 30th. Come hang out with Wikiresearch folk
in Vancouver in spring. :)
CSCW 2015 | Vancouver, Canada
March 14-18 | http://cscw.acm.org
Andrea
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:: Andrea Forte
:: Assistant Professor
:: College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University
:: http://www.andreaforte.net
LDQ 2015 CALL FOR PAPERS
2nd Workshop on Linked Data Quality
co-located with ESWC 2015, Portorož, Slovenia
May 31 or June 1, 2015
http://ldq.semanticmultimedia.org/
Important Dates
* Submission of research papers: March 6, 2015
* Notification of paper acceptance: April 3, 2015
* Submission of camera-ready papers: April 17, 2015
Since the start of the Linked Open Data (LOD) Cloud, we have seen an
unprecedented volume of structured data published on the web, in most
cases as RDF and Linked (Open) Data. The integration across this LOD
Cloud, however, is hampered by the ‘publish first, refine later’
philosophy. This is due to various quality problems existing in the
published data such as incompleteness, inconsistency,
incomprehensibility, etc. These problems affect every application
domain, be it scientific (e.g., life science, environment),
governmental, or industrial applications.
We see linked datasets originating from crowdsourced content like
Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap such as DBpedia and LinkedGeoData and also
from highly curated sources e.g. from the library domain. Quality is
defined as “fitness for use”, thus DBpedia currently can be appropriate
for a simple end-user application but could never be used in the medical
domain for treatment decisions. However, quality is a key to the success
of the data web and a major barrier for further industry adoption.
Despite the quality in Linked Data being an essential concept, few
efforts are currently available to standardize how data quality tracking
and assurance should be implemented. Particularly in Linked Data,
ensuring data quality is a challenge as it involves a set of
autonomously evolving data sources. Additionally, detecting the quality
of datasets available and making the information explicit is yet another
challenge. This includes the (semi-)automatic identification of
problems. Moreover, none of the current approaches uses the assessment
to ultimately improve the quality of the underlying dataset.
The goal of the Workshop on Linked Data Quality is to raise the
awareness of quality issues in Linked Data and to promote approaches to
assess, monitor, maintain and improve Linked Data quality.
The workshop topics include, but are not limited to:
* Concepts
* - Quality modeling vocabularies
* Quality assessment
* - Methodologies
* - Frameworks for quality testing and evaluation
* - Inconsistency detection
* - Tools/Data validators
* Quality improvement
* - Refinement techniques for Linked Datasets
* - Linked Data cleansing
* - Error correction
* - Tools
* Quality of ontologies
* Reputation and trustworthiness of web resources
* Best practices for Linked Data management
* User experience, empirical studies
Submission guidelines
We seek novel technical research papers in the context of Linked Data
Quality with a length of up to 8 pages (long) and 4 pages (short)
papers. Papers should be submitted in PDF format. Other supplementary
formats (e.g. html) are also accepted but a pdf version is required.
Paper submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer
Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Please
submit your paper via EasyChair at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ldq2015. Submissions that do not
comply with the formatting of LNCS or that exceed the page limit will be
rejected without review. We note that the author list does not need to
be anonymized, as we do not have a double-blind review process in place.
Submissions will be peer reviewed by three independent reviewers.
Accepted papers have to be presented at the workshop.
Important Dates
All deadlines are, unless otherwise stated, at 23:59 Hawaii time.
* Submission of research papers: March 6, 2015
* Notification of paper acceptance: April 3, 2015
* Submission of camera-ready papers: April 17, 2015
* Workshop date: May 31 or June 1, 2015 (half-day)
Organizing Committee
* Anisa Rula – University of Milano-Bicocca, IT
* Amrapali Zaveri – AKSW, University of Leipzig, DE
* Magnus Knuth – Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, DE
* Dimitris Kontokostas – AKSW, University of Leipzig, DE
Program Committee
* Maribel Acosta – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, AIFB, DE
* Mathieu d’Aquin – Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
* Volha Bryl – University of Mannheim, DE
* Ioannis Chrysakis – ICS FORTH, GR
* Jeremy Debattista – University of Bonn, Fraunhofer IAIS, DE
* Stefan Dietze – L3S, DE
* Suzanne Embury – University of Manchester, UK
* Christian Fürber – Information Quality Institute GmbH, DE
* Jose Emilio Labra Gayo – University of Oviedo, ES
* Markus Graube – Technische Universität Dresden, DE
* Maristella Matera – Politecnico di Milano, IT
* John McCrae – CITEC, University of Bielefeld, DE
* Felix Naumann – Hasso Plattner Institute, DE
* Matteo Palmonari – University of Milan-Bicocca, IT
* Heiko Paulheim – University of Mannheim, DE
* Mariano Rico – Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ES
* Ansgar Scherp – Kiel University, DE
* Jürgen Umbrich – Vienna University of Economics and Business, AT
* Miel Vander Sande – MultimediaLab, Ghent University, iMinds, BE
* Patrick Westphal – AKSW, University of Leipzig, DE
* Jun Zhao – Lancaster University, UK
* Antoine Zimmermann – ISCOD / LSTI, École Nationale Supérieure des
Mines de Saint-Étienne, FR
* Andrea Maurino – University of Milan-Bicocca, IT
More details can be found on the workshop website:
http://ldq.semanticmultimedia.org/