BooksOnline 2008

We would like to invite you to submit a position paper (up to 4 pages) to the BooksOnline'08 Workshop, presenting your views and insights into important issues and opportunities around large collections of on-line books.

--- Focusing on opportunities for innovation and challenges that are presented by large online collections of digital books, this workshop aims to bring together researchers and industry practitioners, in Information Retrieval, Digital Libraries, eBooks, Human Computer Interaction, Publishing industry and on-line book services. The goal of the workshop is to map out the agenda for digital book research for the next 5 years.
 * Goals*

We would like to invite you to take part in the workshop to: collections of digital books online information service providers available technologies, and practical constraints economic information, etc. into account requirements from multiple perspectives.
 * Discuss new challenges and opportunities presented by large online
 * Create partnerships with researchers, libraries, publishers, and
 * Establish a common understanding of basic concepts, usage scenarios,
 * Exchange data about any aspect of books online: adoption, collections,
 * Map out a comprehensive agenda for digital book research that takes

- This one day workshop will include presentations, parallel break-out sessions, and a panel session focused on findings and recommendations. The core activity will be breakout brainstorming sessions on selected topics. Each group will focus on particular aspects and report back their findings and recommendations during the panel session.
 * Workshop Format*

--- All participants are expected to submit a short position paper (up to 4 pages) that describes pressing issues, opportunities for innovation, case studies of ongoing efforts, or ideas for initiatives involving digital books. Example topics include but are not limited to: formats, content, and usage scenarios for the future reading and learning, collection browsing, etc.) and a relat* Search over OCR content, specific genre, and hybrid document formats, etc. serendipitous information discovery, virtual bookshelves, etc. book services. advertisement, shopping, etc.) comprising authors, publishers, distributors, and consumers. availability of test collections for research.
 * Topics of interest*
 * Usage scenarios and user expectations from digital book services
 * Unique properties of digital books, including variety of
 * Current state-of-the-art in online book services and visions
 * Issues in the user interface design
 * Support a variety of tasks and usage scenarios (active
 * Hardware and software designs of digital book readers.
 * Definition of retrieval tasks and evaluation criteria
 * Resource discovery of digitized books, born-digital content,
 * Definition of user tasks and objectives: known item search,
 * Relevance criteria and evaluation methodologies for online
 * Book services as part of the on-line services ecosystem
 * Relation of books search and other on-line services (e.g.,
 * Integration of book-search facilities and social networks
 * Implication of copyright and user privacy issues on the

Position papers will be reviewed by the Programme Committee to identify key themes and outline topics for the workshop discussions. Some of the authors may be asked to present on specific topics and perspectives to inspire the Workshop discussions and facilitate break-out sessions.

Accepted papers will be published in the CIKM conference proceedings by ACM.

-- The deadline for submitting position papers is July 15, 2008. We expect submissions in English, up to 4 pages in length.
 * Paper Submission*

Please follow the formatting requirements as per the ACM templates, using the "Option 2" style. This is also the style that will be required for final papers. Papers must be submitted as PDF files.

To submit a paper, please go to the BooksOnline'08 Easychair submission site. You will be asked to create a usage account before you can submit the paper. If you are already registered as a PC member for BooksOnline'08, you can submit your paper through that account.

The programme committee will provide feedback on your paper by August 5, 2008. We expect camera ready versions of the papers by August 15, 2008. This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP