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======  CALL FOR PAPERS  ====== W I K I S Y M 2 0 1 0



The Inter­na­ti­o­nal Sympo­sium on Wikis and Open Colla­bo­ra­tion



http://wikisym.org/ws2010/Call+­for+­Pa­pers



July 7–8–9 in GdaÅ„sk, Poland.

Co-loca­ted with Wiki­ma­nia 2010 (Intl. Confe­rence on Wiki­me­dia Foun­da­tion

projects, http://wiki­ma­ni­a2010.wiki­me­dia.org).



Peer-revi­e­wed and archi­ved in the ACM Digi­tal Library.



SUMMARY

WikiSym, the Inter­na­ti­o­nal Sympo­sium on Wikis and Open Colla­bo­ra­tion,

will be held this summer in Gdansk, Poland. Star­ting this year, WikiSym

aims to expli­citly broa­den its scope, explo­ring not only the thri­ving

wiki commu­nity, but also other open move­ments and open colla­bo­ra­tion

initi­a­ti­ves. This inclu­des rela­ted areas such as open online commu­ni­ties,

colla­bo­ra­tive crea­tion of multi­me­dia content (with or without wikis),

and open jour­na­lism and publis­hing, just to list a few exam­ples.



Further­more, our goal is to esta­blish WikiSym as a venue for the exchange

of infor­ma­tion, expe­ri­en­ces and prac­ti­ces among an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary

audi­ence, inclu­ding rese­ar­chers, prac­ti­ti­o­ners, industry repre­sen­ta­ti­ves

and experts with a wide vari­ety of diffe­rent back­grounds.



As a result, WikiSym has esta­blis­hed 3 comple­men­tary tracks to merge the

contri­bu­ti­ons from such a diverse commu­nity:



   * Wiki track: Focu­sed on rese­arch in wiki tech­no­logy,

   wiki websi­tes, wiki commu­ni­ties, and in gene­ral any kind

   of initi­a­tive pivo­ting around wiki soft­ware.



   * Industry track: This new track will focus on the speci­fic

   needs of enter­pri­ses and private compa­nies inter­es­ted in sharing

   and promo­ting their expe­ri­en­ces around wikis and open colla­bo­ra­tion

   projects/products/initi­a­ti­ves.



   * Open colla­bo­ra­tion track: This track is a dedi­ca­ted venue for

   sharing rese­arch results and expe­ri­en­ces in initi­a­ti­ves that may not

   be built speci­fi­cally on wiki soft­ware, but share the «wiki way»

   of orga­ni­za­tion. These may include open colla­bo­ra­ti­ons, open commu­ni­ties,

   and open move­ments that allow the inter­change of ideas and contri­bu­ti­ons

   from parti­ci­pants with a range of inter­ests and moti­va­ti­ons.



Rese­arch manus­cripts may be sent to any of these tracks.

Howe­ver, submit­ting the same manus­cript to more than one

track at the same time is not allo­wed. There­fore, please

select the most appro­pri­ate track for the topic cove­red in

your manus­cript before submit­ting.



IMPOR­TANT DATES



   * March 7th: Submis­sion dead­line for rese­arch papers.

   * March 21st: Submis­sion dead­line for Docto­ral Sympo­sium propo­sals,

posters, demons­tra­ti­ons, works­hops, panels, tuto­ri­als.

   * May 4th: Noti­fi­ca­tion of accep­tance for rese­arch papers.

   * May 11th: Noti­fi­ca­tion of accep­tance for Docto­ral Sympo­sium propo­sals,

posters, works­hops, tuto­ri­als, panels.

   * July 7–9: WikiSym 2010!



Given the inter­dis­ci­pli­nary nature of wikis and open

colla­bo­ra­tion initi­a­ti­ves, WikiSym invi­tes contri­bu­ti­ons in

a wide range of fields.



TOPICS OF INTER­EST: WIKI TRACK



   * Wiki user expe­ri­en­ces, usabi­lity, and discourse analy­sis

   * Repu­ta­tion systems and quality assu­rance proces­ses

   * Scala­bi­lity—­so­cial and tech­ni­cal

   * Wiki tech­no­lo­gies and imple­men­ta­ti­ons

   * Trans­la­tion and multi­lin­gual wiki content

   * Educa­ti­o­nal appli­ca­ti­ons

   * Wikis for non-textual media (images, video, audio)

   * Content dyna­mics and wiki evolu­tion

   * Wiki archi­ving and versi­o­ning

   * Wiki admi­nis­tra­tion: dealing with abuse and resol­ving conflict

   * Wikis and the seman­tic web, know­ledge manage­ment and tacit know­ledge

   * Wikis for small audi­en­ces (depart­men­tal and family wikis)

   * Legal issues (copy­right, licen­sing)

   * Visu­a­li­za­tion of wiki struc­ture



TOPICS OF INTER­EST: INDUSTRY TRACK



   * Busi­ness oppor­tu­ni­ties around wikis and open colla­bo­ra­tion

   * Best prac­ti­ces to adopt wikis and open colla­bo­ra­tion in industry

   * Infor­ma­tion disclo­sure: prac­ti­ces and expe­ri­en­ces

   * Commu­nity buil­ding and support

   * Open publis­hing and open licen­sing in the industry

   * Wikis and open colla­bo­ra­tion entre­pre­neurs­hip

   * Coope­ti­tion: best prac­ti­ces

   * Inter­ac­tion and syner­gies between indus­tries and open commu­ni­ties

   * Open inno­va­tion: stra­te­gies and expe­ri­en­ces for leaders/follo­wers

   * Promo­tion, support and funding of open colla­bo­ra­tion initi­a­ti­ves

   * Know­ledge manage­ment



TOPICS OF INTER­EST OPEN COLLA­BO­RA­TION TRACK



   * Social soft­ware for colla­bo­ra­tion and work group proces­ses

   * Open online commu­ni­ties

   * Tech­no­lo­gies for networ­ked colla­bo­ra­tion

   * Social inter­ac­ti­ons on the web

   * Open and citi­zen jour­na­lism

   * Social networks

   * Colla­bo­ra­tive content crea­tion

   * Distri­bu­ted deve­lop­ment of soft­ware

   * Coope­ra­tion for problem reso­lu­tion

   * Infor­ma­tion disclo­sure stra­te­gies

   * Open call working envi­ron­ments

   * Crowd­sour­cing and infor­ma­tion synt­he­sis

   * Colla­bo­ra­tive multi­me­dia collec­ti­ons

   * Distri­bu­ted content cate­go­ri­za­tion/tagging

   * Open publis­hing

   * Commons projects and repo­si­to­ries

   * Distri­bu­ted selec­tion of content



RESE­ARCH PAPERS



Rese­arch papers present inte­gra­tive revi­ews or origi­nal

reports of subs­tan­tive new work: theo­re­ti­cal, empi­ri­cal,

or in the deve­lop­ment or deploy­ment of novel systems.

We encou­rage empha­si­zing lessons lear­ned and provi­ding a

clear concise message to the audi­ence about the rele­vance

of the work. The paper must place your work in context

within the field, citing rela­ted work and indi­ca­ting clearly

what aspects of the work are new.



Rese­arch papers will be revi­e­wed by the Program Commit­tee

to meet rigo­rous acade­mic stan­dards of publi­ca­tion.

They should be writ­ten in English and must not exceed 10 pages

(for full papers) or 4 pages (for short papers). Papers will

be revi­e­wed both with respect to concep­tual quality and

clarity of presen­ta­tion. Authors of accep­ted papers are

expec­ted to attend the confe­rence in order to present the paper.



Accep­ted submis­si­ons will be publis­hed in the WikiSym

proce­e­dings and archi­ved in the ACM Digi­tal Library.



Submit­ted papers should use the ACM SIG Proce­e­dings Format, see:



http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html



DOCTO­RAL SYMPO­SIUM



The Docto­ral Sympo­sium is an inter­ac­tive forum for docto­ral

students to receive present and discuss their docto­ral work.

Students who are at least one year away from disser­ta­tion

comple­tion are invi­ted to submit to the Docto­ral Sympo­sium.

Students begin­ning their rese­arch are espe­ci­ally invi­ted to attend.



To submit a propo­sal send a 2–3 page descrip­tion of your

disser­ta­tion rese­arch, inclu­ding:



   * A descrip­tion of your work

   * The goals-—what contri­bu­ti­ons will your rese­arch gene­rate?

   * The appro­ach-—what is being perfor­med to achi­eve

   the goals? How will results be vali­da­ted?



Addi­ti­o­nally, your advi­ser must send a brief state­ment

of your disser­ta­tion progress to date and a state­ment of

recom­men­da­tion to the Docto­ral Sympo­sium chair.



WORKS­HOPS



Works­hops provide an oppor­tu­nity for rese­ar­chers and

prac­ti­ti­o­ners to discuss and learn about topics that require

exten­ded enga­ge­ment such as new systems, rese­arch methods,

stan­dards and formats. A works­hop should require parti­ci­pants

to engage with each other for at least half a day. For shor­ter

sessi­ons, please consi­der WikiSym’s open space format.

A works­hop propo­sal should consist of appro­xi­ma­tely two

pages descri­bing what you intend to do and how your session

will meet the crite­ria descri­bed above. It should include a

concise abstract, propo­sed time frame (half-day, full-day)

and one-para­graph biograp­hies of all people rele­vant to the

submis­sion. Works­hop propo­sals will be revi­e­wed and selec­ted

for their inter­est to the commu­nity. Each works­hop will be

allo­ca­ted a half-day or a full-day and a room.



PANELS



Panels provide an inter­ac­tive forum for brin­ging toget­her

people with inter­es­ting points of view to discuss compe­lling

wiki issues. Panels involve parti­ci­pa­tion from both the

pane­lists and audi­ence members in a lively discus­sion.

Propo­sals for panels should consist of appro­xi­ma­tely two pages

descri­bing what you intend to do and how your session will

meet the crite­ria descri­bed above. It should include a concise

abstract and one-para­graph biograp­hies of all pane­lists. A panel

submis­sion will be revi­e­wed and selec­ted for their inter­est to

the commu­nity. Each panel will be given a 90-minute time slot.



POSTERS



Poster presen­ta­ti­ons enable rese­ar­chers to present late-brea­king

results, signi­fi­cant work in progress, or work that is best commu­ni­ca­ted

in conver­sa­tion. WikiSym’s lively poster sessi­ons let confe­rence atten­dees

exchange ideas one-on-one with authors, and let authors discuss their

work in detail with those atten­dees most deeply inter­es­ted in the topic.



Poster propo­sals may describe origi­nal rese­arch, engi­ne­e­ring, or

expe­ri­ence reports. Submis­si­ons should consist of a two-page exten­ded

abstract outli­ning the content of the poster. Success­ful appli­cants will

be invi­ted to display a poster, 1×2m in size, at a special plenary

session of the Sympo­sium.



DEMONS­TRA­TI­ONS



Wikis are inten­ded to be used, and no format is better suited for

demons­tra­ting the utility of new wiki rese­arch and tech­no­logy than showing

and using it. If you would like to demons­trate new featu­res or products,

this is the place! Demons­tra­ti­ons give presen­ters an oppor­tu­nity to show

running systems and gather feed­back. Demo submis­si­ons will be revi­e­wed

based on their rele­vance to the commu­nity. A submis­sion should be one

page in length, with a title and a short descrip­tion of the demo.

The descrip­tion should include what you plan to demons­trate, what you

hope to get out of demoing, and how the audi­ence will bene­fit. A short

note of any special tech­ni­cal requi­re­ments may be inclu­ded.



HOW TO SUBMIT



Please submit your rese­arch papers in PDF format through our rese­arch

paper submis­sion system

(http://www.easy­chair.org/confe­ren­ces/?conf=wikisym2010)

.



For all other papers and propo­sals, please email the respec­tive

chair (see below).



All accep­ted submis­si­ons will be publis­hed in the proce­e­dings and

archi­ved in the ACM Digi­tal Library.



Submit­ted work in all cate­go­ries should use the ACM SIG Proce­e­dings

Format, see: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html



Ques­ti­ons regar­ding submis­si­ons may be direc­ted at the respec­tive chair

using the follo­wing email addres­ses:



   * Works­hops: works­hopswikisym [ punto ] org (works­hops[at]wikisym[dot]org)

   * Demons­tra­ti­ons/Tuto­ri­als: demoswikisym [ punto ] org (demos[at]wikisym[dot]org)

   * Posters: posterswikisym [ punto ] org (posters[at]wikisym[dot]org)

   * Docto­ral Sympo­sium: docsymwikisym [ punto ] org (docsym[at]wikisym[dot]org)



Gene­ral ques­ti­ons should be direc­ted at chairwikisym [ punto ] org (chair[at]wikisym[dot]org).



SYMPO­SIUM COMMIT­TEE



   * Phoebe Ayers, Univer­sity of Cali­for­nia at Davis, USA; Sympo­sium Chair

   * Felipe Ortega, GSyC/Libre­soft, Univer­sity Rey Juan Carlos, Spain;

Programme Chair

   * Dirk Riehle, Frie­drich Alexan­der Univer­sity of Erlan­gen-Nurem­berg;

Trea­su­rer

   * Felipe Ortega, GSyC/Libre­soft, Univer­sity Rey Juan Carlos, Spain; Wiki

Track Chair

   * Martin Clea­ver, Blen­ded Pers­pec­ti­ves, Canada; Industry Track Chair

   * Giota Alevi­zou, Insti­tute of Educa­ti­o­nal Tech­no­logy, Open Univer­sity,

UK; Open Colla­bo­ra­tion Track Chair

   * Patta­ra­wan Prasarnp­ha­nich, Sasin Gradu­ate Insti­tute of Busi­ness

Admi­nis­tra­tion, Thai­land; Posters Chair

   * Andreea Gorba­tai, Harvard Univer­sity, USA; Works­hops Chair

   * Stuart Geiger, Geor­ge­town Univer­sity; Wiki­me­dia Liason

   * Stuart Geiger, Geor­ge­town Univer­sity; Publi­city Co-Chair (Acade­mia-US)

   * Yoshi­fumi Masu­naga, Aoyama Gakuin Univer­sity; Publi­city Co-Chair

(Asia-Paci­fic)

   * Philipp Schmidt, Univer­sity of the Western Cape, South Africa; Publi­city

Co-Chair (Africa)

   * Mayo Fuster Morell, Euro­pean Univer­sity Insti­tute, Italy; Publi­city

Co-Chair (Open Colla­bo­ra­tion)

   * Ward Cunning­ham, Abou­tUs.org and Cunning­ham & Cunning­ham, USA; Hono­rary

Member

   * James Noble, Victo­ria Univer­sity of Welling­ton, New Zealand; Hono­rary

Member

   * Ted Ernst, Abou­tUs.org, USA; Open Space Faci­li­ta­tor

   * Marc Laporte, Tiki­Wiki CMS/Group­ware, Canada; Webmas­ter



PROGRAM COMMIT­TEE



Please, http://wikisym.org/ws2010 to obtain the most up-to-date list of

revi­e­wers and colla­bo­ra­tors inclu­ded in our Programme Commit­tee.



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