[Commlist] CfP: 7th International Open Search Symposium #ossym2025

We are pleased to promote the 7^th International Open Search Symposium 
#ossym2025. The conference will take place in Helsinki, Finland, and 
online from 8 to 10 October 2025.

Looking back six years and continuing the success of the event, the 
#ossym Open Search Symposium series brings together the European and 
international Open Internet Search community for the seventh time. The 
hybrid conference provides a forum to discuss and further develop the 
ideas and concepts of open Internet search and related topics in various 
formats including scientific talks, poster sessions, panels, workshops, 
demonstrations, student engagement and informal discussion spaces. 
Participants include researchers, data centres, libraries, policy 
makers, legal and ethical experts, and the broader community.

We are calling for your participation with scientific papers, sharing of 
practical experiences or by introducing concepts and positions in 
relevant fields, such as computer science, legal, economics and ethics. 
Full papers and abstracts presented at the #ossym2025 will be published 
open access in online proceedings (including DOIs and ISBN).

*Please submit your papers: for research contributions, we accept full 
papers (4-6 pages) and for any other contribution (posters, concepts, 
best practices or practitioners’ experiences) an extended abstract (1 
page).*

All abstracts and papers have to be submitted at 
*https://indico.cern.ch/e/OSSYM-2025 
<https://indico.cern.ch/e/OSSYM-2025> *using the templates specified 
there. The acceptance of all full papers and extended abstracts is 
subject of a peer-review process.

In case you want to organize a thematic session or workshop, please 
contact us with a one page proposal at (_ossym /at/ opensearchfoundation.org) 
<mailto:(ossym /at/ opensearchfoundation.org)>._

We are looking forward to your contributions and to seeing you in 
October in Helsinki!

On behalf of the organizing committee,

/Michael Granitzer, University Passau, Germany; Christian Guetl, Graz 
University of Technology, Austria; Heidi Laine, CSC, Espoo, Finland; Per 
Öster, CSC, Espoo, Finland; Megi Sharikadze, LRZ, Germany; Stefan Voigt, 
Open Search Foundation, Germany; Andreas Wagner, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland./

*Important Dates*

*Submission of full papers and extended abstracts*

March 1, 2025

*Information about contribution acceptance*

June 1, 2025

*Registration for the #ossym2025*

Will open June 15, 2025

*International Open Search Symposium #ossym2025*

October 8-10, 2025

*Online publication of proceedings*

October 2025

*Topics of #ossym2025 include but are not limited to*

  * Open search architectures and platforms
  * Open Web Index and application domains
  * Federated search and cross-domain search
  * Web Data Analytics and Web Mining
  * Natural language and multi-media processing for search
  * Large Language Models, Machine learning and generative AI
  * AI-based search and Retrieval Augmented Generation
  * Personalisation and recommendation in search
  * Conversational Retrieval Experiences
  * Georeferencing of web content and geospatial search and analysis
  * Evaluation of open search systems
  * Applications of open search in domains such as science, e-commerce,
    health, and education
  * Search engine advertising and business models in an open search world
  * Search bias and trust
  * Economic dimensions of open search
  * Green computing and sustainability
  * Societal and ethical challenges and solutions
  * Politics and governance
  * Legal aspects

*Conference Chairs*

Michael Granitzer | University Passau, Germany

Christian Guetl | Graz University of Technology, Austria

Megi Sharikadze, LRZ, Germany

Stefan Voigt | Open Search Foundation, Germany

Andreas Wagner | CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

*Local Chairs and Organization*

Per Öster | CSC, Espoo, FInland

*Publication Chairs*

Andreas Wagner

Sebastian Gürtl

Elias Sandner

*Poster Session Chairs*

Iiris Liinamaa

Heidi Laine

*Programme Committee *(please refer to the website for updates)

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