OSSYM 2024 - 6th International Open Search Symposium

9 Oct 2024, 09:00 → 11 Oct 2024, 16:00 Europe/Zurich

Leibniz Supercomputing Centre LRZ, Munich, Germany and Online

Andreas Wagner (CERN), Christian Gütl (Graz University of Technology), Christine Plote, Michael Granitzer, Stefan Voigt (Open Search Foundation)

9 - 11 October 2024

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The Open Search Symposium #ossym24 brings together the Open Web Search community in Europe for the sixth time. The hybrid conference provides a forum to discuss and further develop the ideas and concepts of open internet search, search and AI, and related topics in various formats including scientific talks, panels, workshops, demonstrations, student challenges and informal discussion spaces. Participants include researchers, data centres, libraries, policy makers, legal and ethical experts, and society.  ( Open Search Foundation)

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Conference Programme

Discuss interdisciplinary aspects of Open Search
technical • ethical • legal • educational • economic • applications

Science Tracks Crawling and Infrastructure Search Applications and Technologies Preprocessing and ML for Search LLMs and RAG

Sessions + Workshops Ethics + Society Wiki/Curation NGI Legal aspects of open web search Industry Track “Alternative Search Engines”

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Conference format

• Conference venue: Leibnitz Supercomputer Centre in Garching/Munich with the possibility of Online participation.  

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Conference Chairs

Michael Granitzer | University Passau, Germany
Christian Guetl | Graz University of Technology, Austria
Christine Plote | Open Search Foundation, Germany
Andreas Wagner | CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Per Öster | CSC – IT Center for Science, Finland
Stefan Voigt | Open Search Foundation, Germany

Local Organization:
LRZ – Leibniz Supercomputing Centre

 

Document templates for contributions

• JACoW_W16_MAC_A4.dotx
• LaTeX JACoW template
• OSSYM_ODF_A4.ott
• OSSYM_W16_A4.dotx

Wednesday 9 October ¶

09:00 → 10:00 Conference Opening & Opening Keynote¶

09:00 Conference Opening¶

Speaker: Dieter Kranzlmüller (LRZ), Florian Herrmann (State Minister, Head of the Bavarian State Chancellery)

09:15 Keynote „Opening Keynote“¶

Speaker: Roberto Viola (Director General, Communications Networks, Content and Technology, European Commission)

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 12:10 Science Track: "Crawling and Infrastructure"¶

Convener: Session Chair: Andreas Wagner (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)

10:30 Science Track: „Crawling and Infrastructure“¶

Speaker: Session Chair: Andreas Wagner (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)

10:31 Architecting the Opensearch Service at CERN For OpenWebSearch.EU¶

Speaker: Noor Afshan Fathima; Andreas Wagner, Michael Dinzinger; Stavros Moiras; Michael Granitzer

OSSYM-Presentation-1.pdf

OSSYM-Presentation-1.pptx

10:50 Atra: A Powerful, Lightweigt Approach to Crawling¶

Speaker: Felix Engl (University of Bamberg)

OSSYM-2024--CIN-P02--S08--Atra--F-Engl--presentation--v01.pdf

11:10 OWLer: A Distributed and Collaborative Open Web Crawler¶

Speaker: Michael Dinzinger, Michael Granitzer; Jelena Mitrovic; Saber Zerhoudi

OWLer_OSSYM2024.pptx

11:30 Federated Data Infrastructure for the Open Web Search¶

Speaker: Noor Afshan Fathima; Martin Golasowski; Michael Granitzer; Andreas Wagner, Chris Ariyo; Gijs Hendriksen; John Truckenbrodt; Katja Mankinen; Michael Dinzinger; Mikael Karlsson; Mohamad Hayek; Stavros Moiras; Lukas Vojacek; Stephan Hachinger; Jan Martinovič

ossym24-presentation-2.pdf

ossym24-presentation-2.pptx

11:50 Open Console¶

Speaker: Mark Overmeer; Thao Nguyen

20241009-OWS-ossym.odp

12:10 → 13:40 Lunch Break and Guided Tours

13:40 → 14:40 Science Track: "Search Applications and Technologies I": Science Track: „Search Applications and Technologies I“¶

Convener: Session Chair: Elias Sandner (Graz University of Technology & CERN)

13:40 Science Track „Search Applications and Technologies I“¶

Speaker: Session Chair: Elias Sandner (Graz University of Technology & CERN)

13:41 An Open Source Implementation of Web Clustering Algorithms for Selective Search¶

Speaker: Gijs Hendriksen (Radboud University)

ossym2024.pdf

14:00 Search reports as a way to make the (academic) search process and information evaluation comprehensible and transparent¶

Speaker: Anna Neovesky

Neovesky-OSF2024-Search-reports.pdf

Neovesky-OSF2024-Search-reports.pptx

14:20 Enriching Science Search with the Open Search Framework MOSAIC¶

Speaker: Mr Alexander Nussbaumer (Graz University of Technology)

presentation-v3.pdf

14:40 → 15:40 NGI Track: "Next Generation Internet"¶

14:40 NGI Track „Next Generation Internet“¶

Speaker: Session Chair: Megi Sharikadze (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Germany)

14:45 NGI Search "Implications of an open web index for search, discovery, and indexing projects”"¶

Speaker: Mirko Presser

15:40 → 16:20 Coffee Break

16:20 → 17:20 Science Track: "Search Applications and Technologies II"¶

16:20 Science Track „Search Applications and Technologies II“¶

Speaker: Session Chair: Gijs Hendriksen (Radboud University, Netherlands)

16:21 NeutrinoReview: Concept Proposal for an Open Source Review Management Tool¶

Speakers: Elias Sandner (Graz University of Technology (AT)), Igor Jakovljevic; Alice Simniceanu; Luca Fontana; Andre Henriques; Andreas Wagner; Christian Gütl

OSSYM2024_final.pdf

OSSYM2024_final.pptx

16:40 Scientific QA System with Verifiable Answers¶

Speakers: Adela Ljajić (Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research and Development of Serbia), Nikola Milosevic (Bayer A.G.)

OSSYM_Nikola_Milosevic_VerifAI.pdf

OSSYM_Nikola_Milosevic_VerifAI.pptx

17:00 Design Science Research for the Development of a University Course on the Informed Use of Search Engines"¶

Speaker: Prof. Melanie Platz

OSSYM-2024_Platz_20241008.pdf

17:20 → 17:35 Closing of Day 1¶

17:20 Closing of Day 1¶

Speaker: Megi Sharikadze (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre)

17:55 → 18:55 Guided Tours¶

19:00 → 21:00 Sponsored Event: “Open Web Search community meet-up”¶

Thursday 10 October ¶

09:00 → 10:00 Keynote 2: Richard Socher (CEO of You.com): Keynote 2¶

09:00 Keynote 2: "You.com"¶

Speaker: Richard Socher (CEO of You.com)

10:00 → 10:40 Search Engine Track: "Alternative Search Engines"¶

Convener: Session Chair: Christine Plote (Open Search Foundation, Germany)

10:00 Search Engine Track “Alternative Search Engines”¶

Speaker: Session Chair: Christine Plote (Open Search Foundation, Germany)

10:01 MWMBL: How to build a search engine with (almost) no money¶

Speaker: Daoud Clarke

10:20 Meta-Press.es¶

Speaker: Simon Descarpentries (Founder of the Meta-Press.es project; CEO at Acoeuro.com; Treasurer of the Fund for Defense of Net Neutrality FDN2.org)

10:40 → 11:20 Coffee Break | Exhibition

11:20 → 12:40 Parallel Sessions: "LLMs, RAG and NER"¶

Convener: Session chair: tbd

11:20 Parallel Sessions: "LLMs, RAG and NER"¶

Speaker: Session chair: Jelena Mitrovic (University of Passau, Germany)

11:21 A Dataset of GDPR Compliant NER for Privacy Policies¶

Speaker: Harshil Darji (Universität Passau)

ossym24.pdf

11:40 Retrieval Augmented Generation and Scientific Knowledge Graphs to Support Scientific Hypotheses Generation¶

Speakers: Oliver Bensch, Tobias Hecking

OSSYM_24_RAG-LBD.pdf

OSSYM_24_RAG-LBD.pptx

12:00 Utilising Transformer Models for Controllable Scientific Abstractive Summarization¶

Speakers: Sarah Frank, Sebastian Johannes Weidinger

OSSYM2024.pdf

12:20 Creating explainable summaries for long scientific documents using large language models¶

Speaker: Sebastian Schäffer (Graz University of Technology)

Creating explainable summaries for long scientific documents using large language models.pdf

11:20 → 12:40 Parallel Sessions: "Preprocessing and ML for Search"¶

Convener: Session chair: Sheikh Mastura Farzana (German Aerospace Center DLR)

11:20 Parallel Sessions: "Preprocessing and ML for Search"¶

Speaker: Session chair: Sheikh Mastura Farzana

11:21 Search, Find, Cite and Apply Grammar Rules for Textgeneration¶

Speaker: Engelbert Niehaus

OSSYM2024_Mueller_Rapp_Kastor_Niehaus.pdf

11:40 Towards a systematic use of web-text data to support geospatial analysis of major natural disaster and crisis events – Evidence from the Ahrtal 2021 flooding, Germany¶

Speaker: Vanessa Rittlinger; Sheikh Mastura Farzana, Xuke Hu, Hema Pandey, Stefan Voigt, Christian Geiß, Hannes Taubenboeck

OSSYM_presentation_finalVR.pdf

OSSYM_presentation_finalVR.pptx

12:00 Impact of Tokenization Techniques on URL Classification¶

Speaker: Mohammed Al-Maamari

OSSYM2024-Presentation.pdf

12:20 Web Page Classification using Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Clustering Technique¶

Speaker: Hema Pandey

12:40 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:00 Keynote¶

14:00 Keynote: “The Internet of monopolies. How we are taking back the net”¶

Speaker: Martin Andree (Bestselling Author & Researcher at University of Cologne)

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 17:30 Workshop Session: Workshop 1¶

15:30 Workshop 1: Economy¶

Speaker: Organisers: Olivier Blanchard; Daniel Nowakovski

15:30 → 17:30 Workshop Session: Workshop 2: Workshop Session: "Workshop 2"¶

15:30 Workshop 2: Legal Challenges and Opportunities for an Open Web Index: Insights & Discussions from Leading Research Projects¶

Speaker: Session Chair: Christian Geminn (University of Kassel, Germany) Organizers: Matthias Wendland; RA Paul C. Johannes; Kai Erenli

17:30 → 17:45 Closing of Day 2¶

17:45 → 18:45 Guided Tours¶

19:30 → 22:00 Conference Dinner (self-hosted)

Friday 11 October ¶

09:00 → 09:45 Keynote: "Digital Discourse: how the Wikipedia Community safeguards the quality of the digital encyclopedia"¶

Convener: Nina Leseberg (Head of Communities & Engagement, Wikimedia Deutschland)

09:00 Keynote: "Digital Discourse: how the Wikipedia Community safeguards the quality of the digital encyclopedia"¶

Speaker: Nina Leseberg (Head of Communities & Engagement, Wikimedia Deutschland)

09:45 → 10:45 Panel Session Ethics & Society I “Exploring and defining the ethical foundations of web search”: anel Session Ethics & Society 1: “Exploring and defining the ethical foundations of web search”¶

Convener: Christine Plote (Open Search Foundation OSF)

09:45 Panel Session Ethics & Society 1: "“Exploring and defining the ethical foundations of web search”"¶

Speaker: Session Chair: Christine Plote (Open Search Foundation OSF)

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 → 12:15 Workshop Session: "Ethics & Society 2"¶

Convener: Session Chair: Alexander Nußbaumer (Graz University of Technology)

11:15 Ethics Session Ethics & Society 2¶

Speaker: Session Chair: Alexander Nußbaumer

11:16 What makes an ethical smartphone OS? Digital rights strengthened by open source, open data and open standards¶

Speaker: Rik Viergever (E Foundation)

Murena_intro_20241010.pdf

11:35 Energy Efficency and Search (WT)¶

Speaker: Alex de Vries

241011 Energy efficiency and search.pdf

11:55 From Free Software to Open Source: Traversing the Values and Ethics of Open Search Infrastructures¶

Speaker: Renée Ridgway (Aarhus University)

12:15 → 13:00 Student Session: "Young Innovators for Open Web Search”¶

Convener: Session Chair: Stefan Voigt (German Aerospace Centre / Open Search Foundation, Germany)

12:15 Student Session “Young Innovators for Open Web Search”¶

Speaker: Session Chair: Stefan Voigt (German Aerospace Centre / Open Search Foundation, Germany)

12:16 “User-Driven Re-Ranking for Adapting the Variety in Search Results“¶

Speaker: Daphne Auer; Birgitta Koenig-Ries; Divyasha Sunil Naik

auer_ossym24.pdf

12:36 "Exploring Curation Strategies for an Open Web Index"¶

Speakers: Felice Douglas (Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart), Susanne Krol

hdm_krol_douglas.pdf

13:00 → 13:30 Wrap-up - Closing of #ossym 2023 - Way ahead¶

13:00 Wrap-up - Closing of #ossym 2023 - Way ahead: Wrap-up - Closing of #ossym 2023 - Way ahead¶

13:15 End of Symposium¶