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CFP: Hypertext and Society
by James Noble 24 Mar '07

24 Mar '07

====================================== HYPERTEXT AND SOCIETY ACM Hypertext 2007 Call for Participation ====================================== Hypertext and Society Programme Eighteenth International ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia Manchester, UK 10th - 12th September 2007 http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/home/htsociety.php -------------------------------------- ACM Hypertext 2007 consists of five autonomous programmes under a single unified conference. The Hypertext and Society programme aims to explore developments in Hypertext and innovative technologies where the defining feature is the existence of communities of users. It is our hope that the Hypertext and Society Programme will offer a high quality venue for this exciting new area. TOPICS ------ We seek papers that explore applications, implementations, implications and evaluation, and necessary models and standards for such systems, including: * Mapping and Visualisation of social spaces and networks * Blogs and alternative Blog forms (podcasting, photologs etc.) * Collaborative working * Wikis * Forums * Semantic Wikis * Folksonomy, tagging, annotation and metadata * Recommender systems * Social networks and communities of practice * Social software for learning * Citation networks * Virtual presence, identity and trust * Multi-user Games We are also seeking papers that explore the implementation and impact of such systems user communities such as: * Governments * Developing regions * Virtual organisations * E-commerce * Education * Health care We understand the term hypertext in the broadest sense encompassing a wide range of multimedia applications. SUBMISSIONS ----------- Participants are invited to submit Technical Papers, Hypertexts, Poster and Demonstration papers. All submissions must be formatted using the official ACM SIG proceedings template. (http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html). Technical (4 pages Short & 10 pages Full) Hypertexts (Zip-File / URL & 2 pages) - Submission: 7th May 2007 Midnight HST - Notification: 4th Jun 2007 Midnight HST - Camera Copy: 2nd Jul 2007 Midnight HST Posters & Demos (2 pages) - Submission: 11th Jun 2007 Midnight HST - Notification: 18th Jun 2007 Midnight HST - Camera Copy: 2nd Jul 2007 Midnight HST We have also included a Student Research Competition programme. The aim of this is to encourage research students to submit their work in order to obtain valuable feedback and to also become involved within the hypertext community. Student Research Competition (2 pages) - Submission: 7th May 2007 Midnight HST - Notification: 4th Jun 2007 Midnight HST - Camera Copy: 2nd Jul 2007 Midnight HST Technical papers, poster abstracts, and demonstration abstracts will appear in the official conference proceedings, published by ACM. Conference attendees will receive a copy of the proceedings. All material will be available through the ACM Digital Library. CONFERENCE LOCATION ------------------- The conference will take place on the 10th, 11th and 12th September 2007, within the Manchester Museum in Manchester, UK. The museum is located within the centre of The University of Manchester campus and is within easy access of several tourist attractions and the city centre of Manchester. Located in the North West of the UK, Manchester is easily reachable by air, rail, and car. Further information of how to get to the conference venue can be found in the travel section. Being in a central location of the country, Manchester also acts as a good base for travelling further a field around the UK, with all the major roads and railway lines passing through the City. London is only 2 hours away by train whilst Edinburgh, the Capital City of Scotland, is only 3 and a half hours away. CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION ----------------------- Hypertext and Society Autonomous Programme Committee Co-chairs: Hugh Davis (University of Southampton, UK) David Millard (University of Southampton, UK) Programme Committee: Mark Bernstein (Eastgate Systems) Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Darina Dicheva (Winston-Salem State University, USA) Peter Dolog (Aalborg University, Denmark) James Noble (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ) Demetrios Sampson (University of Piraeus, Greece) Sunir Shah (Meatball) Josie Taylor (The Open University, UK) Vincent Wade (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) Enquiries may be directed to Hugh Davis at hcd(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk

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Thesis research at MSU on Wikipedia
by Benjamin Keith Johnson 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hi all, I'm completing a Master's thesis in Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media at Michigan State University. My topic is, of course, Wikipedia. You may have seen my advertisement for research subjects on the wikipedia-l list or at the Village Pump. I'm doing in-depth interviews with contributors... basically my perspective is Wikipedia as a public good and "why" individuals contribute, following the work of Olson; Ostrom; Kollock & Smith; Bimber, Flanagin, & Stohl; Forte & Bruckman; and others. I've already received several queries regarding the limitation of interviewees to U.S. residents. Frankly, it's an IRB restriction, and the decision was made that excluding other English speakers is not a liability in a small, purposive sample. I'd be interested in any comments or feedback, and am willing to entertain questions. Thanks, and have a great night! ------------------------- Benjamin Johnson MA Student in Information, Policy and Society Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media 428 Communication Arts and Sciences East Lansing, MI 48824 Cell: 517.230.1272 john2429(a)msu.edu

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Fwd: [Asis-l] new Journal: International Journal of Internet Research Ethics
by phoebe ayers 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

New journal, perhaps of interest. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns(a)vt.edu> Date: Mar 15, 2007 7:08 AM Subject: [Asis-l] new Journal: International Journal of Internet Research Ethics To: Asis-l(a)asis.org Distribute as appropriate: > International Journal of Internet Research Ethics http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SOIS/cipr/ijire.html Description and Scope: The IJIRE is the first peer-reviewed online journal, dedicated specifically to cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural research on Internet Research Ethics. All disciplinary perspectives, from those in the arts and humanities, to the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences, are reflected in the journal. With the emergence of Internet use as a research locale and tool throughout the 1990s, researchers from disparate disciplines, ranging from the social sciences to humanities to the sciences, have found a new fertile ground for research opportunities that differ greatly from their traditional biomedical counterparts. As such, "populations," locales, and spaces that had no corresponding physical environment became a focal point, or site of research activity. Human subjects protections questions then began to arise, across disciplines and over time: What about privacy? How is informed consent obtained? What about research on minors? What are "harms" in an online environment? Is this really human subjects work? More broadly, are the ethical obligations of researchers conducting research online somehow different from other forms of research ethics practices? As Internet Research Ethics has developed as its own field and discipline, additional questions have emerged: How do diverse methodological approaches result in distinctive ethical conflicts – and, possibly, distinctive ethical resolutions? How do diverse cultural and legal traditions shape what are perceived as ethical conflicts and permissible resolutions? How do researchers collaborating across diverse ethical and legal domains recognize and resolve ethical issues in ways that recognize and incorporate often markedly different ethical understandings? Finally, as "the Internet" continues to transform and diffuse, new research ethics questions arise – e.g., in the areas of blogging, social network spaces, etc. Such questions are at the heart of IRE scholarship, and such general areas as anonymity, privacy, ownership, authorial ethics, legal issues, research ethics principles (justice, beneficence, respect for persons), and consent are appropriate areas for consideration. The IJIRE will publish articles of both theoretical and practical nature to scholars from all disciplines who are pursuing—or reviewing— IRE work. Case studies of online research, theoretical analyses, and practitioner-oriented scholarship that promote understanding of IRE at ethics and institutional review boards, for instance, are encouraged. Methodological differences are embraced.

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Paper: Tracking the Lexical Zeitgeist with WordNet and Wikipedia
by Oldak Quill 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

I don't see many people recommending already-written papers about Wikimedia projects on this mailing list, so I thought I'd recommend one. http://afflatus.ucd.ie/Papers/ecai2006.pdf The paper is about "a system for dynamic lexicon growth that harvests and semantically analyses new lexical forms from Wikipedia, to automatically enrich WordNet as these new word forms are minted." It's an interesting read about semantic information that can be extracted from Wikipedia as-is. A useful derivitive use of what we're putting together. A second paper also covers the semantic extraction of a knowledge base of 5 million facts from Wikipedia. "The facts have been automatically extracted from Wikipedia and married with WordNet, using a carefully designed combination of rule-based and heuristic methods described in this paper." (http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~suchanek/publications/www2007.pdf) Credit to Chris Bizer for posting the former paper, and Sören Auer for the latter on the Dbpedia-discussion mailing list. -- Oldak Quill (oldakquill(a)gmail.com)

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Two new papers: Analysis of the Wikipedia Category Graph & Using Wikipedia for computing Semantic Relatedness
by Torsten Zesch 11 Mar '07

11 Mar '07

We would like to announce two new papers using Wikipedia. We hope that the results will be of use for the Wikipedia research community. (1) Torsten Zesch, Iryna Gurevych (2007) ''Analysis of the Wikipedia Category Graph for NLP Applications.'' Proceedings of the TextGraphs-2 Workshop (NAACL-HLT) http://elara.tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/publications/2007/hlt-textgraphs… In this paper, we discuss the Wikipedia category graph. We perform a graphtheoretic analysis and show that it is a scale-free, small world graph like other well-known lexical semantic networks. (2) In this paper, we show how Wikipedia can be used for computing semantic relatedness between terms. Wikipedia outperforms classical semantic wordnets on the task of estimating non-classical semantic relations. Torsten Zesch, Iryna Gurevych, Max Mühlhäuser (2007) ''Comparing Wikipedia and German Wordnet by Evaluating Semantic Relatedness on Multiple Datasets.'' Proceedings of NAACL-HLT http://elara.tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/publications/2007/hlt-short.pdf Best regards, Torsten -- Dipl.-Inf. Torsten Zesch Doctoral Researcher Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Group Darmstadt University of Technology WWW: http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de

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Reminder: IRC meeting about Wikiversity research - 22 UTC
by Cormac Lawler 10 Mar '07

10 Mar '07

Hi all, This is a reminder of the meeting about research in Wikiversity, which will be today (UTC) @ 22:00 UTC in freenode channel: #wikiversity. Details of the meeting are at: <http://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:IRC_meeting_about_research>. (Info on timezones at: <http://worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_UTC.aspx> and <http://www.worldtimezone.com>. Info on using IRC can be found at: <http://freenode.net/faq.shtml>, and client info at: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_clients>.) This will be a logged meeting - meaning that the log of the meeting may be published on Wikiversity or elsewhere. Hope to see you there - you're welcome to participate as well as simply to "lurk" :-) Cheers, Cormac

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Wikiversity research - IRC meeting
by Cormac Lawler 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

Hi all - this is to let you know that there will be an IRC meeting about Wikiversity research this Saturday (10th) @ 22:00 UTC in freenode channel #wikiversity. This is in advance of the board's meeting about Wikiversity (scheduled to take place the following Friday, 16th), and is a crucial aspect to Wikiversity's move out of its "beta phase". Board members are, as ever, particularly welcome. :-) Further details of the meeting are at: <http://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:IRC_meeting_about_research>. Links to relevant work-pages to be edited and discussed can be found there. For info on timezones, see: <http://worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_UTC.aspx> and/or <http://www.worldtimezone.com>. Hope to see you there - if you can't make it, and want to add something to the agenda, please do so at the page given above. Cheers, Cormac http://cormaggio.org http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:Cormaggio

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How many know that WP is editable and discussable?
by Joseph Reagle 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

A handful of students in a class I teach hadn't realized that the Wikipedia was 1) user written, 2) editable, or 3) discussable. They never even tried the tabs at the top, so a student put the question to me in class today: how many of those that access a page access its discussion page? On #wikipedia folks noted that such a feature is possible with Wikimedia but disabled and any such statistics are hard to get since there's so much and can hurt performance if enabled. Any other thoughts?

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NIH Wiki fair
by GerardM 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

Hoi, There was the other day a one day seminar at the US National Institutes of Health. Some really interesting presentations were given about Wikis as used in government and in health care. There is a whopping 5:41 hour video about it. Missing are the timestamps when a particular presentation starts. Barend Mons and Larry Sanger gave two presentations that were of special interest to me. I had a look at most of the presentations, I blogged about it and noted the times of the start of their presentations. I had another look at some of them and, I liked them a lot. I think Larry is not a great presenter and after some more thought, the biggest reason why they are only a thousand articles at the moment is because of them operating in stealth mode. They had an article in Nature and I am convinced that a lot of their good will evaporated over time. Thanks, GerardM Resources: video: http://videocast.nih.gov/PastEvents.asp?c=998 website: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?NIHWikiFair_2007_02_28 http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2007/02/nih-wiki-fair.htmlha

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Wikimania 2007: Call for Participation
by Jakob Voss 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

Please circulate this call among Wikimedia communities, researchers and other people that may be interested! This call is also online at http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation == Wikimania 2007: Call for Participation == === About Wikimania === Wikimania is an annual global event devoted to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia Foundation projects. It is a community event, which is also open to the public and to scientists. Wikimania is a place for editors and users of the Wikimedia projects around the globe (Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wiktionary, and Wikiversity) to gather, to meet each other, to exchange ideas, and to report on research and projects. This year's conference will be held from August 3-5, 2007 in Taipei, Taiwan at Chien Tan Overseas Youth Activity Center <http://www.cyh.org.tw/center/center_bu.php?loginno=&buid=B>. We are accepting submissions for posters, presentations, workshops, and discussion groups. We are also accepting nominations for speakers and speaker panels, and suggestions for other activities. Please note the details below and be bold in your submissions! === Important dates === * 1 March – 30 April: Submission * 1 May – 31 May: Feedback and notification of acceptance * 3 – 5 Aug 2007 : Wikimania === Conference Themes === Submissions should address one or more of the following themes: * Wikimedia Communities – Interesting projects and particularities within the communities (we explicitly invite you to present your local Wikimedia project's community!); policy creation within individual projects; conflict resolution and community dynamics; reputation and identity; multilingualism, languages and cultures; social studies. * Free Content – Open access to information; ways to gather and distribute free knowledge, usage of the Wikimedia projects in education, journalism, research; ways to improve content quality and usability; copyright laws and other legal areas that interfere with Wikimedia projects. * Technical infrastructure – Issues related to Mediawiki development and extensions; Wikimedia hardware layout; new ideas for development (including usable case studies from other wikis or similar projects). Your topic must be related to Wikimedia projects and its communities or to the creation of free content in general. If your topic does not cover free content creation and communities but wikis or communities in other applications then the WikiSym 2007 conference <http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/> (October 21-23, 2007, Montreal) or a Recent Changes camp might better suit. === Types of Submissions === We are seeking submissions for * presentations (10–30 minute talks with optional short or full papers) * posters (printed presentations or visual displays that can stand on their own) * workshops (30–120 minute session with more involvement of the audience) * panels (group of 2-5 speakers to discuss on a specific subject) * Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) (45-60 minutes informal meetup of group discussion on a particular topic) * artistic artifacts (plays, competitions, comedy, visualizations, or other representations of some aspect of the projects) Furthermore you may leave ideas, comment, and suggestions at the public wiki page <http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_Ideas>. === Guidelines === Wikimania is organized by volunteers, so please help us to minimize wasted effort by following these guidelines carefully before submitting and be sure not to forget anything that is mentioned here. All submissions must explicitly include the following: * an English title * a short English abstract of 50 to 100 words. The abstracts should be provided as plain text, and not as file attachments. This abstract will be used as public description of your submission in the conference program * a detailed description (or full paper) of at least one page (300 words or more). This description will not be published unless you want it, but used for reviewing your submission. Give an overview of the areas to be covered or taught. State clearly the relevance to the Wikimedia projects and whether submission concerns a specific wiki project. You may use any language, but we strongly suggest English or Chinese. Full descriptions may include a link to a full paper or slides in HTML or PDF, if available. * full name, email address, and a short bio of 1–3 sentences for each author. You may also add wiki usernames and nicknames. * the type of submission (presentation, poster, workshop, panel, BoF, artistic) * the language(s) you are going to talk in (or the language of your poster) Please tell us with your submission whether you will attend to Wikimania (a) surely, (b) probably, (c) only if your submission is accepted, or (d) only if you manage to get further funding. It may also help to add yourself to the public list of attendees at <http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Attendees>. Additionally you must specify: * the target audience you are going to reach and what previous knowledge is needed * special requirements (such as equipment for a workshop or panel) if needed * images or sketches of the poster or artistic artifact if available * for panel submissions short biographies of each suggested panelist * whether the presentation is intended to be a specific length. * BoF proposals should describe the significance of and community interest in the topic, and name the proposed discussion leader(s). Please note that all submissions must be dual licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.2 or later and the Creative Commons Attribution License. Once you are sure you have included all of the required information, please send your submission by the respective deadline through our submission system <http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submission>, which will be available at the Wikimania 2007 website. Please do not send submissions by email. For poster sessions <http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Poster_session> there are additional guidelines. Before the main conference there will also be informal Hacking days <http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hacking_days> for MediaWiki developers who are familiar with the software. If you need help for translating your work please visit our translation help page. Questions, but not submissions, may be directed to cfp(a)wikimedia.org.

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