[Sigdl-l] CfP CULTURAL HERITAGE in CLEF (CHiC 2011) - To be held as part of CLEF2011, September 20th, Amsterdam

[Nicola Ferro]

* 1st Call for Participation and Statements Submission *

** Apologies for Cross Postings **

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CULTURAL HERITAGE in CLEF (CHiC 2011):              
"From Use Cases to Evaluation in Practice for Multilingual Information
Access to Cultural Heritage"

http://www.promise-noe.eu/chic-2011/home

To be held as part of CLEF2011, September 20th, Amsterdam
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Information systems that access Cultural Heritage (CH) deal with effective information access to cultural heritage material held in large-scale digital libraries containing data from libraries, archives, museums, and audio-visual archives. However, access to these objects still poses several challenges related to the heterogeneous media types (texts, audio or video files) and user groups (novice and expert users), often with specialized information needs. Objects are provided by meta data, usually in their national language and with specified technical vocabularies suited for their particular domains. 

Previous research has focused on the satisfaction of user information needs by retrieving relevant “cultural assets” irrespective of the media type, location or language in which information objects are expressed. Despite digital libraries are constantly growing and much research is carried out in the field, much less is done to establish standard evaluation criteria and methods. 

The CHiC2011 – Cultural Heritage in CLEF: From Use Cases to Evaluation in Practice for Multilingual Information Access to Cultural Heritage workshop at CLEF 2011 will start to investigate these issues by surveying evaluation efforts in the cultural heritage field as well as defining user scenarios and identifying possible relevant metrics.
The workshop provides an overview of previous or current evaluation activities and seeks to introduce an exchange about future efforts that needs to be addressed in the CH field.  

Invited talks will address use cases, evaluation approaches, and best practices from an institutional point of view as well as the experiences from large-scale evaluation campaigns such as CLEF, TREC or INEX . Participants are encouraged to include short statements and participate in the discussions concerning complementary efforts, projects, initiatives and available test data. 
Based on the speakers input and group discussions the second part of the workshop aims to identify possible synergies between evaluation frameworks within CH projects and campaigns as well as the development of use cases and usage scenarios that can be applied to CH information systems and evaluation tasks. 


Keynote Speakers
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* Jaap Kamps <http://staff.science.uva.nl/%7Ekamps/> is an Assistant 
Professor of Information Retrieval at the Faculty of Humanities, 
University of Amsterdam. He is involved in several externally funded 
research projects such as MuSeUM (Multiple-collection Searching Using 
Metadata) and MultiMATCH (Multilingual/Multimedia Access To Cultural 
Heritage).

* Johan Oomen <http://www.linkedin.com/in/johanoomen> is head of the
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision R&D Department and 
researcher at the Web and Media group of the Vrije Universiteit 
Amsterdam. His research focus on providing access to digital heritage
on the Web such as Europeana V1.0 or PrestoPRIME.

* Christos Papatheodorou <http://www.ionio.gr/%7Epapatheodor/> is an
Associate Professor at the Department of Archives and Library 
Sciences, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece and a fellow researcher in
the Digital Curation Unit, Institute for the Management of 
Information Systems, "Athena" Research Centre, Athens, Greece. He was
the general co-chair of the 13th ECDL and organized the tutorial 
"Exploring Perspectives on the Evaluation of Digital Libraries".


Workshop Format
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Full day workshop (4 hours) devided into two sessions. 

The first session includes three invited talks, followed by interactive discussions. 

For the second part of the workshop participants are asked to contribute statements (5 minutes slots) and work together with the keynote speakers and organizers on possible evaluation tasks.

To submit a statement proposal, please send an e-mail by *15th JULY 2011* to the Organizers discussing the topic you would like to address and/or the issue you would like to raise.

Since we have limited time, statement proposals will be selected on the basis of their relevance to the workshop and their possiblity to contribute at shaping an actual evaluation task.


Organizers
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* Nicola Ferro (University of Padova, Italy, ferro at dei.unipd.it)
* Maria Gaede (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany, maria.gaede at ibi.hu-berlin.de) 
* Monica Paramita (University of Sheffield, UK, m.paramita at sheffield.ac.uk)
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