RI4WebSci: WebSci'21 Workshop on Research Infrastructure for Web Science online, organised by University of Southampton UK Southampton, UK, June 20-21, 2021 |
Conference website | https://tinyurl.com/ri4websci |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ri4websci |
Submission deadline | April 23, 2021 |
Call for Presentations and Papers
The WebSci'21 Workshop on Research Infrastructure for Web Science (RI4WebSci) is co-located with the 13th ACM Web Science Conference
Web Science researchers are using a rich set of data sources, software tools, and computational infrastructure in all aspects of their work – and many are creating new tools and methods. The Web Science conference is the ideal moment to share experience, practice and innovations in all these aspects of our work, and to identify what we want our future Web Science research infrastructure to look like. We’re particularly interested in interdisciplinary intersections, for example techniques from digital humanities and social data science applied to Web Science – and vice versa. The insights and evidence gathered through this workshop will influence future developments in our Web Science research environment, as we co-create our Web Science knowledge infrastructure.
Submission Guidelines
We invite presentations and papers about experience and innovation working with Web Science data, methods, software tools and computational techniques. Topics include but are not limited to:
- Web Science data sharing, archiving and curation
- Web archiving
- Community archiving
- Linking archives
- Recording and interpreting context and provenance
- Platforms and methods for crowdsourcing and citizen engagement
- Preservation and risk
- Archives and cultural heritage on the Web
- Digital twins
- Analysis tools, combining methods, and tools for dynamic and interactive exploration
- Workflows for Web Science
- Working with complex and messy data
- Working with live data
- AI and virtual assistants for Web Science
- Accessible interfaces
- Communicating transparency, authenticity and trustworthiness
- Modelling and simulation
- Non-consumptive research models (cf Hathi Trust)
- Computational Archival Science
- Use of machine learning
- Explaining machine learning and artificial intelligence
- Data for public engagement
Presentations. Please submit an abstract of your talk (300 words) via EasyChair by April 23, 2021 at 11:59 pm AoE. The abstract may be entered in the EasyChair form (you do not need to upload a file). Abstracts will be included in a report from the workshop.
Papers. Please submit your paper (3-5 pages) via EasyChair by April 23, 2021 at 11:59 pm AoE. For format requirements, see the conference website.
If your paper is to be included in the companion collection of the ACM WebSci21 proceedings, you will need to adhere to the schedule for the publication of the overall proceedings, i.e., full papers will need to be submitted by April 23 2021, and camera-ready papers by 17 May 2021. This is a strict deadline, and the conference will not be able to include any papers after this date.
Committees
Program Committee
- Lorna Hughes, University of Glasgow (Chair)
Organizing committee
- David De Roure, University of Oxford and The Alan Turing Institute
- Pip Willcox, The National Archives
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to David De Roure at david.deroure@oerc.ox.ac.uk