BooksOnline 2012 - 1st International Workshop on Online Books, Complementary Social Media

During the past years, the Web culture has grown more and more enticing, centring many services around social media and collaboratively shared content. The vast range of possible exploitations of such community platforms includes viral marketing, collaborative tagging, recommendation and content creation. BooksOnline'12 aims to offer a forum for bringing together expertise from academia, industry, libraries and archives to facilitate the exchange of research and application of social media and collaboratively shared content in the field of digital libraries with specific focus on online books. This requires to solve a range of KM, IR, DB, DL and HCI challenges applied to large collections of online books and related social media. These include mechanisms for fast access to semi-structured data, methods to mine and enrich content and analyse usage data, algorithms, user interfaces and interaction models for searching and recommendation in rich social contexts, and designs for engaging reading experiences that readers would want to share. BooksOnline'12 will encourage strong exploitation of the incentives and benefits of such major forms of massive on-line collaborations for digital libraries.
Gabriella Kazai (Microsoft Research, UK)
Monica Landoni (USI, CH)
Carsten Eickhoff (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
http://www.hci.usi.ch/BooksOnline12/