OSSYM 2021 - 3rd International Open Search Symposium
11-13 October 2021
The 3rd International Open Search Symposium is bringing together the Open Internet Search community in Europe, involving science, computing centres, libraries, politics, legal and ethics experts and society, the Open Search Symposium series provides a forum to discuss and advance the ideas and concepts of Open Internet search in Europe. (
Open Search Foundation)
Conference Programme
Discuss interdisciplinary aspects of Open Search Technology
technical | ethical | legal | economic | awareness | applications
Conference Timetable
The detailed Timetable is available here
Conference format
The conference was held online hosted by CERN.
Keynotes
Tim SmithHead of Collaboration, Devices and Applications Group, Informatgion Technology Department (CERN)
Astrid Mager
Institute of Technology Assessment, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW); research fellow at HIIG in the research program Internet Policy and Governance
Werner Stengg
Digital expert in the cabinet of EU Commissioner and Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager; responsible for coordination of digital policy, Artificial Intelligence and data economy, Platform Economy, Disinformation
Carla Hustedt
Head of the Division “Digitised Society” of Stiftung Mercator
Plenary Session: Alternative Search Approaches
Sridhar Ramaswamy
CEO and Co-Founder Neeva, former Google executive in charge of Ads
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
Rémi Berson
Software engineer at Brave Search, expert for privacy preserving technologies
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
Day 1 | 11 Oct. 21
13:00 | Conference Opening
Welcome
OSF and CERN
Tim Smith, Head of Collaboration, Devices and Applications Group (CERN)
13.45 |
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
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
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
14:15 | 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
Programme Committee
Prof. Dr. Wolf-Tilo Balke, L3S Research Center, Braunschweig, Germany
Prof. Dr. Alexander Decker, Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Germany
Prof. Dr. Arjen P. de Vries, Radboud University, Netherlands
Dr. Christian Geminn, University Kassel, Germany
Prof. Dr. Michael Granitzer, University Passau, Germany
Prof. Dr. Christian Guetl, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Prof. Dr. Andreas Henrich, University Bamberg, Germany
Prof. Dr. Robert Jäschke, Humboldt University Berlin & L3S, Hannover, Germany
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Nils Jensen, Ostfalia University of Applied Science, Wolfenbüttel, Germany
Prof. Dr. Mohammed Kaicer, Faculty of Sciences Kenitra, Morocco
Dr. Dennis-Kenji Kipker, University Bremen, Germany
Prof. Dr. Dieter Kranzlmüller, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre and LMU, Munich, Germany
Prof. Dr. Dirk Lewandowski, University of Applied Science, Hamburg, Germany
Prof. Dr. Engelbert Niehaus, University Koblenz-Landau, Landau, Germany
Dr. Uta Priss, Ostfalia University of Applied Science, Wolfenbüttel, Germany
Prof. Dr. Christin Seifert, University of Twente, Netherlands
Dr. Stefan Voigt, Open Search Foundation, Germany
Dr. Andreas Wagner, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Symposium organizing committee
Dr. Andreas Wagner, CERN
Prof. Dr. Christian Guetl , TU Graz
Prof. Dr. Michael Granitzer, Univ. Passau
Dr. Stefan Voigt, open search foundation