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 4 October 2023 (13:00) to Friday 6 October 2023 (16:00)

Monday 2 October 2023
Tuesday 3 October 2023
Wednesday 4 October 2023
13:00 Symposium Opening: Welcome & Keynote & Invited Talks
Symposium Opening: Welcome & Keynote & Invited Talks
13:00 - 14:30
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

13:00 Welcome - Andreas Wagner (CERN) Michael Granitzer Stefan Voigt

13:05 CERN Welcome - Bob Jones (CERN) (CERN)

13:15 Democratizing AI through community organizing - Christoph Schumann (LAION)

14:00 Next Generation Internet – Initiative of the European Commssion. What’s next? - Jorge Gasos (European Commission/DG Connect)

14:15 openwebsearch.eu – Where do we stand? - Michael Granitzer (University of Passau, Germany)
14:30 ows.eu Track
ows.eu Track
14:30 - 15:30
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

14:30 “OpenWebSearch.eu I” Research and Updates from the EU Project groups and researchers - Session Chair: Tobias Hecking (DLR German Aerospace Center, Munich, Germany)

14:31 Product Spam on YouTube: A Case Study - Janek Bevendorff (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)

14:45 Challenges of index exchange for search engine interoperability - Djoerd Hiemstra (Radboud University)

15:00 Prototyping Open Web Search Applications with TIRA: A Case Study in Research-oriented Teaching - Maik Fröbe (Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena)

15:15 Session Q&A
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
16:00 ows.eu Track
ows.eu Track
16:00 - 17:45
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

16:00 “OpenWebSearch.eu II” Research and Updates from the EU Project groups and researchers - Session Chair: Arjen de Vries (Radboud University)

16:01 OWler: Preliminary results for building a Collaborative Open Web Crawler - Michael Dinzinger (University of Passau)

16:15 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)

16:30 A Comprehensive Dataset for Webpage Classification - Mohammed Al-Maamari (University of Passau)

16:45 Governance Towards an Open Web Index - Jasmin Tietgen (Open Search Foundation)

17:00 Conceptual Design and Implementation of a Prototype Search Application using the Open Web Search Index - Alexander Nussbaumer (Graz University of Technology)

17:15 Cooperate via Open Console - Mark Overmeer (MarkOv Solutions) (MarkOv Solutions)

17:30 Session Q&A
18:30 Ice Breaker - Welcome Drink
Ice Breaker - Welcome Drink
18:30 - 20:00
Room: 500/1-201 - Mezzanine
Thursday 5 October 2023
09:00 Keynote
Keynote
09:00 - 09:30
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

09:00 Keynote - “Trust and Transparency” - Věra Jourová (Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency)
09:30 Human centric Search / User Experience
Human centric Search / User Experience
09:30 - 10:45
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

09:30 Research Track „Human centric Search / User Experience“ - Session Chair: Igor Jakovljevic (CERN)

09:31 Understanding and mitigating Cognitive Bias during Web Search - Simon Hitzginger (Graz University of Technology)

09:45 Interfacing generic and specialized search engines on the User side - Steffen Leich-Nienhaus (MBG AG)

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

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

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

11:15 Parallel Workshops

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

11:16 Workshop 2: Cross-Border Legal Considerations

11:16 Workshop 1: Ethical Aspects
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:15
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
14:15 „Business Applications and Economic Value of Open Search“
„Business Applications and Economic Value of Open Search“
14:15 - 15:30
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

14:15 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
15:30 Keynote & Invited Talk
Keynote & Invited Talk
15:30 - 17:00
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

15:30 Keynote „Bias in Search and Recommender Systems“ - Ricardo Baeza-Yates Institute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University, USA

16:45 Invited Talk "Building Authentic AI: The Synergy of Decentralized Knowsledge Graph and Community Incentives" - Branimir Rakić, co-founder and CTO at Trace Labs
17:00
17:00 - 18:15
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

17:00 Industry Track „Alternative Search Engines“ - Session Chair: Christine Plote (Open Search Foundation)

17:01 Web Scale Search from the Ground Up: Establishing a Viable Alternative to Big Tech. - Colin Hayhurst, CEO, Mojeek, United Kingdom

17:20 For children only – the search engine fragFINN - Anke Meinders, Managing Director, fragFINN e.V., Germany

17:40 Assumptions about the shape of the web - Viktor Lofgren, Founder, Marginalia Search, Sweden

18:00 Session Q&A
18:15

18:15 - 18:20

19:30 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
19:30 - 21:30
Friday 6 October 2023
09:00 Keynote
Keynote
09:00 - 09:45
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

09:00 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)
09:45 Research Track - “Machine Learning and Retrieval”
Research Track - “Machine Learning and Retrieval”
09:45 - 11:00
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

09:45 Research Track - “Machine Learning and Retrieval” - Session Chair: Saber Zerhoudi (University of Passau)

09:46 Customizable Categorization of Documents in Evidence Based Research for Biopharma - Reihaneh Manteghi (Graz University of Technology)

10:00 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 Extending Power ISA for Search with SVP64 - Luke Leighton (Vantosh, Belgium)

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

10:45 Session Q&A
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
11:30
11:30 - 13:00
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

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

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

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

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

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

12:30 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 Session Q&A
13:00 Wrap-up - Closing of #ossym 2023 - Way ahead
Wrap-up - Closing of #ossym 2023 - Way ahead
13:00 - 13:30
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre

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