Workshops

Second ERCIM - DIS Workshop

Announcement

The 2nd ERCIM-DIS Workshop on Large scale and federated information spaces will be held on 20 May 2009 in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Call for contributions

Call for contributions

The ERCIM Working Group on Data and Information Spaces (DIS) is asking proposals for position papers for its second workshop, to be promoted under the theme of large scale and federated information spaces. The main goal of the workshop is to create a white paper presenting the current and future research trends concerning the wide scientific area the ERCIM-DIS workgroup members are involved. This white paper would be useful for the achievement of a common understanding within the workgroup members and the development of prosperous collaborations in the framework of the EU funding programs.

The objective of the ERCIM DIS WG is to build a strong network of researchers in the fields of data and information spaces. Of special importance is the development of methods and tools to make digital, cultural and scientific content available, searchable and accessible for all kinds of users. Also relevant will be the storage, preservation and curation of all types of data, including primary and scientific data. Other relevant issues will be scalability, intelligent information management and interoperability, which should be achieved on multiple levels (schema, repository as well system).

Therefore the main topics expected to be covered will be (but not limited to):

• Infrastructures and services for DIS
• Large scale DIS (corporations, research/e-Science, private/family, etc.)
• Long-term preservation and curation in DIS
• DIS and interoperability (data and metadata schemas, processes between systems, etc.)
• DIS in specific contexts (such as geo-referenced/spatial, temporal, etc.)
• Business processes and workflows in DIS (information life-cycle management, etc.)
• Other issues in DIS, such as Open access, Open Archives, Federated repositories, etc.

Interested participants are invited to present their (organization's) plans and viewpoints for research in the DIS area for the next 5 years, documented by existing systems, services or technologies or innovative ideas for new projects or actions requiring the cooperation of other participants – experts on complementary domains.

The proposals, in the form of position papers (3 to 5 pages) should be submitted by email to the workshop co-chairs Christos Papatheodorou (papatheodor@ionio.gr) and Yannis Stavrakas (yannis@imis.athena-innovation.gr).

Depending of the capacity of the room, the participation in the workshop will be open to all the interested, even if the participant does not have submitted a proposal. The main workshop will be organized from 09:00 to 17:30. A social dinner, open to all the interested participants, may be arranged.

Organization

• Christos Papatheodorou Ionian Univ. and Institute for the Management of Information Systems Athena RC, Greece
• Ingeborg T. Sølvberg, NTNU, Norway (DIS coordinator)
• Yannis Stavrakas, Institute for the Management of Information Systems, Athena RC, Greece

Important Dates

• 22 April - Proposals due
• 30 April - Notification of acceptance
• 20 May - Workshop

First ERCIM - DIS Workshop

The ERCIM-DIS working group held its first workshop on large scale and federated information spaces in Paris, France on May, 27th, 2009.

Minutes

Minutes of the 1st WG Workshop, May 2009 in Paris, provided by Ingeborg Sølvberg

Programme

(To add your paper or presentation to this page, please send it to the web site maintainer christian.fuhrhop@fokus.fraunhofer.de )

	Wednesday May 27th
0830-0915	Register/Coffee/Welcome	ERCIM
0915-0930	Setting the scene/ Purpose of the seminar	Ingeborg T. Sølvberg, NTNU
	Session 1 Position paper
0930-1000	Information Retrieval Support for Evidence-Based Software	D. Cruzes, H. Ramampiaro, R. Conradi, M. Mendoca
1000-1030	Integrating Cultural Heritage Information Sources - Paper,Slides	L. Bountouri, M. Gergatsoulis, C. Papatheodorou
1030-1100	BREAK
	Session 2 Position paper
1100-1130	DIS as a complex infrastructure: experience from the Socionet project - Slides	Sergey Parinov, Victor Lyapunov
1130-1200	Handling of non-standard metadata across archives in the ethnoArc project - Paper,Slides	Christian Fuhrhop, Raju Vaidya
1200-1230	LUNCH
	Session 3: Invited Talks
1230-1315	Exploiting User Generated Content to Improve Web Search (Abstract)	Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S
1315-1400	Data information and knowledge for e-science and e-infrastructure (DIS and e-science) (Abstract), Slides	Keith Jeffery, ERCIM
1400-1430	Conclusions/Way forward/Closing Remarks	Ingeborg T. Sølvberg, NTNU
	Dinner
2000-2200	Dinner at the Hotel Les Jardins du Marais

Presentations of interests related to possible projects calls

The purpose of a WG meeting in the afternoon from 1500 to 1830, was to encourage and explore the interests for projects within the DIS community for the upcoming EU Calls.

Location

The workshop was held at the hotel "Les Jardins du Marais", 74 rue Amelot, 75011 Paris.

Organisation

• Ingeborg T. Sølvberg, NTNU, Norway (DIS coordinator)
• José Borbinha, INESC-ID, Portugal
• Anne Gams Steine Asserson, University of Bergen, Norway
• Heiko Schuldt, University of Basel, Switzerland