DESIRE 2011 - Data infrastructurEs for Supporting Information Retrieval Evaluation (DESIRE 2011)

Over the years, the information retrieval area has produced a vast set of large test collections which have become the main benchmark tools of the area and ensure reproducible and comparable experiments. However, these same collections have not been organised into coherent and integrated infrastructures which make them accessible, searchable, citable, exploitable, and re-usable to all possibly interested researchers, developers, and user communities. It is thus time for these three communities ? information retrieval, databases, and knowledge management ? to join efforts, meet, and cooperate to address the problem of envisaging and designing useful infrastructures able to coherently manage pertinent data collections and sources of information, and so take concrete steps towards developing them. Therefore, the main objective of the workshop is to gather together experts from these three areas, to encourage them to recognise the urgency of addressing the problem in an integrated and coherent way, and to coordinate efforts towards drawing a roadmap and suggesting best practices for an effective solution of the problem.

Maristella Agosti (University of Padua, Italy)
Nicola Ferro (University of Padua, Italy)
Costantino Thanos (ISTI-CNR, Italy)

Website: http://www.promise-noe.eu/events/desire-2011/