OSSYM 2021 - 3rd International Open Search Symposium

Plenary Session: #ETHICSINSEARCH

Pernille Tranberg
Expert and advisor in data ethics and data democracy, co-founder of the European thinkdotank DataEthics.eu

Dr. Mirko Tobias Schäfer
Associate Professor at Utrecht University, co-founder and project leader of the Utrecht Data School

Nelly Clausen
Researcher at Utrecht University with focus on data ethics, project manager of DEDA German

Christine Plote
Open Search Foundation e. V., Co-manager of #ethicsinsearch

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Day 1 | 11 Oct. 21

13:00 | Conference Opening
Welcome
OSF and CERN

13.15 | Keynote
“Why Science needs Open Search”
Tim Smith, Head of Collaboration, Devices and Applications Group (CERN)

13.45 | "Economical Challenges of Open Search" 


Discussion

14:30 | Research Track
"Federated Web-Crawling" - Part 1

• URL Frontier: an open source API and implementation for crawl fron-tiers
• Processing Crawled Data

15:15 | Virtual Coffee Break and Networking

15:45 | Research Track
"Federated Web-Crawling" - Part 2

• Avoiding Useless Content While Crawling the Web Data Archive
• From web graphs to prioritizing web crawls

16:15
Virtual Cocktails

17:30
End of Day 1

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Day 2 | 12 Oct. 21

9:00
Opening 

9:10 | Keynote
"Encoding social change? Analysis of open search technology between German hacker ethics and Asian start-up culture"
Astrid Mager
Institute of Technology Assessment, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW); lecturer at the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of Vienna

9:45 | Virtual Coffee Break and Networking

10:00 | Research Track
"Web Content Analysis"

• The Impact of Main Content Extraction on Near-Duplicate Detection
• FastWARC: Optimizing Large-Scale Web Archive Analytics
• Keyphrase Extraction in Physics Publications and Patents, creation of a dataset
• Understanding Websites

11.30 | Keynote European Dimension to Open Search
"European Commission perspective to Open Search"
Werner Stengg
Cabinet expert on the cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager, European Commission

12:30 | Lunch Break and Networking

13:30 | Plenary Session
"Alternative Search Approaches"

"Xayn: Reinventing Internet Search with Privacy and Convenience"
Dr. Leif-Nissen Lundbæk
CEO and Co-Founder Xayn
Prof. Dr. Michael Huth
Chief Research Officer and Co-Founder Xayn, Dean at Imperial College London

"Goggles: Democracy dies in Darkness, and so does The Web"
Rémi Berson
Software engineer at Brave Search, expert for privacy preserving technologies

Sridhar Ramaswamy
CEO and Co-Founder Neeva, former Google executive in charge of Ads

15:00 | Virtual Coffee Break and Networking

15:30 | Research Track
"Search and Discovery"

• A Proposal for Client Based User Profiles for Open Search
• Indico & Citadel Search: A collaboration case study
• Neuropil – a distributed, privacy-preserving, search index structure
• Searching on Heterogenous and Decentralized Data: A Short Review

17:00 |
End of Day 2

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Day 3 | 13 Oct. 21

9:00 | Keynote
Carla Hustedt
Head of the Division “Digitised Society” of Stiftung Mercator

9:15 | Plenary Session
"Ethics in Search"

"Search Ethics and Data Democracy – How we all have a responsibility creating a data democracy where neither state nor big tech control our lives via data"
Pernille Tranberg
Expert and advisor in data ethics and data democracy, co-founder of the European thinkdotank DataEthics.eu

"Data Ethics Decision Aid (DEDA): How to implement Ethical Decisions step-by step in Data Projects"
Dr. Mirko Tobias Schäfer
Associate Professor at Utrecht University, co-founder and project leader of the Utrecht Data School
Nelly Clausen
Researcher at Utrecht University with focus on data ethics, project manager of DEDA German

"Why the Internet search needs ethical guardrails"
Christine Plote
Open Search Foundation e. V., Co-manager of #ethicsinsearch

Panel Discussion

10:30 | Virtual Coffee Break and Networking

11:00 | Research Track
"Open Search for Science and Education"

• "Open Search @ DLR - towards transparent access to web-based information in science"
• "Modules for Open Search in Mathematics Teaching"
• "Towards Open Domain Literature Based Discovery"

12:00 | Lunch Break and Networking

13:00 | Research Track
"Cross cutting aspects"

• Privacy in Open Search: A Review of Challenges and Solutions
• The effect of search engine optimization on search results: The SEO Ef-fect project
• The Development of a Social-Media-Strategy for the Open Search Foun-dataion Applying the Social-Media-Cycle

14:00 | Coffee Break

14:15 | Research Track
“Applications”

• Improved Discovery and Access to Research Data in Energy Systems Analysis
• Requirements for an Open Search Infrastructure from the Perspective of a Vertical Provider
• Towards Open Search Applications for the Broader Community
• Conceptual considerations for comprehensive and cooperative crawling and indexing the Web

16.00 | Updates from the OSF Working Groups
Tech, Economy, Awareness, Ethics, Legal, Applications

16:45
Closing Discussion

17:30
Way ahead and Farewell