Call for Papers: WWW2007 Tagging Workshop

WWW2007 Workshop:

Tagging and Metadata for Social Information Organization

Tuesday May 8, 2007, Banff, Alberta, Canada

Call For Papers and Participation

http://www2007.redlog.net/

Background

User-generated content has transformed the web. This new content - including video, blogs, photos, etc. - is often also organized collaboratively, using tags, or keywords, supplied by users. Tags are useful entry points into exploring the content by searching, filtering, navigating, and so on. Collaboratively tagging content sources allows them to be used for knowledge and information sharing and constitute a kind of social interaction, and the relations between keywords can be used to create associations in topic networks.

As the services supporting tagging grow, questions of scale become pertinent. From a social standpoint, as communities grow, changes (similarity, trust, etc.) make successful interfaces for small groups ineffective for large ones, making new designs necessary. From a technical perspective, growth of data sources presents new opportunities for semantics and data mining.

In this workshop, we hope to bring together researchers and practitioners from a variety of disciplines and engage them in discussion about tagging, especially how it fosters social information organization and collaboration, and how to leverage the explosive volume of metadata.

Topics of Interest

We hope to bring together researchers as well as practitioners to explore social, design and computational aspects of tagging and social information organization. The topic space is wide, but the following are some of the areas of special interest:

* Semantics. Ontology and hierarchy creation; Semantics issues in cross-system tagging; Standardization efforts.

* Cognition. The cognitive aspects of categorization; Organizing and retrieving tagged objects.

* Social networks. Social sharing; Relationship building; Ratings systems and collaborative filtering; Identity management self-presentation; Tagging in blogs, wikis, etc.

* Usability and Interfaces. Search navigation, browsing and filtering; Novice users and tags; Evaluating existing tagging environments and user behavior; Motivations for tagging.

* Multimedia. Tagging multiple kinds of media; tagging across media types; Tagging at varying scales; Non-text-based annotations and tags.

How to Submit

Submissions will be managed using the EasyChair conference management system. Go to http://www.easychair.org/WWW2007Workshops/ and create an account, then choose the track for this workshop.

Papers must be submitted in PDF format, and in the style as WWW2007 papers. See the WWW2007 submissions page (http://www2007.org/submission.php) for templates and info.

Papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee and an appropriate set of submissions will be accepted. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their work at the workshop. The workshop proceedings will also be made part of the WWW2007 CDs, which will be distributed at the conference.

Workshop Format

The schedule of the workshop is designed to be as interactive as possible, and will include paper presentations and moderated discussion. Under consideration are breakout sessions and possible guest speakers.

1. Paper/Area Discussions. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their work, with an emphasis on discussion with the attendees. Accepted papers will be grouped into coherent topic groups so topics may also be discussed at a more general level

. 2. Breakout sessions. Breakout sessions will allow attendees to engage in small-group, deeper discussion about particular areas. Design exercises or other prompts may stimulate discussion.

3. Moderated Discussion. As a way of bringing closure to the workshop day, the co-organizers will solicit questions from the attendees and moderate discussion among them.

Key Dates & Contact Info

* Mon 12 February 2007 - All papers must be submitted via Easychair by this date.
* Fri 16 March 2007 - Authors will be notified whether submissions have been accepted or not.
* Fri 30 March 2007 - Camera-ready copies of accepted papers are due.
* Tue 8 May 2007 - Workshop will be held at WWW2007 in Banff, Alberta, Canada.

Organizers
* Scott Golder, HP Labs. http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Scott_Golder/
* Frank Smadja, RawSugar.

Program Committee:
* Lee Iverson, University of British Columbia
* Emanuele Quintarelli, Reed Business Information
* Vova Soroka, IBM Haifa Research Lab
* Andrew Tomkins, Yahoo! Research
* Jennifer Trant, Archives & Museum Informatics