Name: OSSYM 2023 - 5th International Open Search Symposium
Start: 2023-10-04T13:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-10-06T16:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

OSSYM 2023 - 5th International Open Search Symposium

from Wednesday, October 4, 2023 (1:00 PM) to Friday, October 6, 2023 (4:00 PM)

Monday, October 2, 2023
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
1:00 PM Symposium Opening: Welcome & Keynote & Invited Talks
Symposium Opening: Welcome & Keynote & Invited Talks
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

1:00 PM Welcome - Andreas Wagner (CERN) Michael Granitzer Stefan Voigt

1:05 PM CERN Welcome - Bob Jones (CERN) (CERN)

1:15 PM Democratizing AI through community organizing - Christoph Schumann (LAION)

2:00 PM Next Generation Internet – Initiative of the European Commssion. What’s next? - Jorge Gasos (European Commission/DG Connect)

2:15 PM openwebsearch.eu – Where do we stand? - Michael Granitzer (University of Passau, Germany)
2:30 PM ows.eu Track
ows.eu Track
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

2:30 PM “OpenWebSearch.eu I” Research and Updates from the EU Project groups and researchers - Session Chair: Tobias Hecking (DLR German Aerospace Center, Munich, Germany)

2:31 PM Product Spam on YouTube: A Case Study - Janek Bevendorff (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)

2:45 PM Challenges of index exchange for search engine interoperability - Djoerd Hiemstra (Radboud University)

3:00 PM Prototyping Open Web Search Applications with TIRA: A Case Study in Research-oriented Teaching - Maik Fröbe (Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena)

3:15 PM Session Q&A
3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
4:00 PM ows.eu Track
ows.eu Track
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

4:00 PM “OpenWebSearch.eu II” Research and Updates from the EU Project groups and researchers - Session Chair: Arjen de Vries (Radboud University)

4:01 PM OWler: Preliminary results for building a Collaborative Open Web Crawler - Michael Dinzinger (University of Passau)

4:15 PM Commercialized Generative AI: A Critical Study of the Feasibility and Ethics of Generating Native Advertising Using Large Language Models in Conversational Web Search - Ines Zelch (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena)

4:30 PM A Comprehensive Dataset for Webpage Classification - Mohammed Al-Maamari (University of Passau)

4:45 PM Governance Towards an Open Web Index - Jasmin Tietgen (Open Search Foundation)

5:00 PM Conceptual Design and Implementation of a Prototype Search Application using the Open Web Search Index - Alexander Nussbaumer (Graz University of Technology)

5:15 PM Cooperate via Open Console - Mark Overmeer (MarkOv Solutions) (MarkOv Solutions)

5:30 PM Session Q&A
6:30 PM Ice Breaker - Welcome Drink
Ice Breaker - Welcome Drink
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: 500/1-201 - Mezzanine
Thursday, October 5, 2023
9:00 AM Keynote
Keynote
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

9:00 AM Keynote - “Trust and Transparency” - Věra Jourová (Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency)
9:30 AM Human centric Search / User Experience
Human centric Search / User Experience
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

9:30 AM Research Track „Human centric Search / User Experience“ - Session Chair: Igor Jakovljevic (CERN)

9:31 AM Understanding and mitigating Cognitive Bias during Web Search - Simon Hitzginger (Graz University of Technology)

9:45 AM Interfacing generic and specialized search engines on the User side - Steffen Leich-Nienhaus (MBG AG)

10:00 AM Linknovate startup radar – datalife use case - Manuel Noia (Linknovate Science)

10:15 AM Reaching beyond Ethics – Perspectives of Human Rights Education on an open Search Index - Manuel Theophil (Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern- Landau)

10:30 AM Session Q&A
10:45 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
11:15 AM Parallel Workshops
Parallel Workshops
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

11:15 AM Parallel Workshops

11:16 AM Workshop 3: Energy Efficiency in Open Web Search

11:16 AM Workshop 2: Cross-Border Legal Considerations

11:16 AM Workshop 1: Ethical Aspects
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
2:15 PM „Business Applications and Economic Value of Open Search“
„Business Applications and Economic Value of Open Search“
2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

2:15 PM Panel Session „Business Applications and Economic Value of Open Search“ - Session Chair: Isabell Claus (thinkers.ai); Jacqueline Erhart, ASFINAG Maut Service GmbH; Prof. Uwe Seebacher, Author and Editor, Springer Nature Group
3:30 PM Keynote & Invited Talk
Keynote & Invited Talk
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

3:30 PM Keynote „Bias in Search and Recommender Systems“ - Ricardo Baeza-Yates Institute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University, USA

4:45 PM Invited Talk "Building Authentic AI: The Synergy of Decentralized Knowsledge Graph and Community Incentives" - Branimir Rakić, co-founder and CTO at Trace Labs
5:00 PM
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

5:00 PM Industry Track „Alternative Search Engines“ - Session Chair: Christine Plote (Open Search Foundation)

5:01 PM Web Scale Search from the Ground Up: Establishing a Viable Alternative to Big Tech. - Colin Hayhurst, CEO, Mojeek, United Kingdom

5:20 PM For children only – the search engine fragFINN - Anke Meinders, Managing Director, fragFINN e.V., Germany

5:40 PM Assumptions about the shape of the web - Viktor Lofgren, Founder, Marginalia Search, Sweden

6:00 PM Session Q&A
6:15 PM

6:15 PM - 6:20 PM

7:30 PM Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Friday, October 6, 2023
9:00 AM Keynote
Keynote
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

9:00 AM Keynote „Inclusion by whose terms? When being in doesn’t mean digital and web search inclusion“ - Angella Ndaka (The Centre for Africa Epistemic Justice and University of Otago)
9:45 AM Research Track - “Machine Learning and Retrieval”
Research Track - “Machine Learning and Retrieval”
9:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

9:45 AM Research Track - “Machine Learning and Retrieval” - Session Chair: Saber Zerhoudi (University of Passau)

9:46 AM Customizable Categorization of Documents in Evidence Based Research for Biopharma - Reihaneh Manteghi (Graz University of Technology)

10:00 AM A System for Geospatial Question-Answering using LLMs, LangChain, ChromaDB, and a Modern React.Js Frontend - Maximilian Theiner (Graz University of Technology) Patrick Lovric (Graz University of Technology)

10:15 AM Extending Power ISA for Search with SVP64 - Luke Leighton (Vantosh, Belgium)

10:30 AM Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Filtering: Evaluating a Machine Learning Recommender System in a Large Interconnected Organization - Igor Jakovljevic (CERN)

10:45 AM Session Q&A
11:00 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

11:30 AM Research Track - “Open Search Ecosystem” - Session Chair: Maria Dimou, CERN

11:31 AM Towards a smart network schema builder using anonymous and implicit interaction data - Aleksandar Bobic (CERN, Graz University of Technology)

11:45 AM Exploiting Key Information from Open Scientific Search Results to Enhance User Experience - Sarah Frank (CERN & Graz University of Technology)

12:00 PM Exploring the Landscape of Innovation: A Network-Based Approach for Visualizing and Analyzing Heterogeneous Patent Graphs - Andre Rattinger (Graz University of Technology)

12:15 PM Open (Web) Search, a booster for Open Science? - Tobias Hecking (German Aerospace Center)

12:30 PM Europe’s Technical Debt: Why We Need Web Search in the Age of Generative AI - Pedro Ortiz Suarez (German Research Center for Artifical Intelligence)

12:45 PM Session Q&A
1:00 PM Wrap-up - Closing of #ossym 2023 - Way ahead
Wrap-up - Closing of #ossym 2023 - Way ahead
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre

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