Call for Papers

We invite submissions of full research papers (up to 10 pages) describing novel developments and research, or position papers and project proposals (up to 5 pages) presenting ideas or directions of work, highlighting pressing issues or opportunities for innovation involving digital books and complementary media.

Best Paper and Best Project Proposal awards

A seed fund of £3,000, provided by Microsoft Research, will be awarded to one or more selected projects or papers as judged by the workshop organizers and a selected panel of experts.

Topics of interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

· New paradigms for digital books, paper vs. electronic media, affordances of books and eBooks;

· Social reading, search, recommendations, navigation and annotations; sharing, collaboration and co-authoring; community building through shared content and annotation;

· Crowd as library assistant; paid and for-fun social engagement; crowdsourcing for personalization, book recommendations; hybrid computer-human systems for digital libraries;

· Virtual learning environments; eBooks in teaching; eBooks as integrated content and media; emersion in the user experience;

· Extracting semantics and knowledge from books; linking and sense making; cross-referencing, and knowledge sharing; community interests and social context;

· Evaluating eBooks, interface and interaction designs for active reading, features for collection browsing, mining social media reviews on usability issues; using crowdsourcing for evaluation;

· Infrastructures; indexing and content representation; scalability and interoperability; technologies for searching, browsing, filtering, and information extraction; integration of complementary content and services; supporting rich media experiences for online books; integrating social platforms; tagging, reviewing, recommendations;

· Universal access to online books across nations and cultures.

Important dates

Paper submission deadline: July 22, 2011
Notification of acceptance: August 8, 2011
Camera-ready deadline: August 12, 2011
Workshop: October 24, 2011

Paper submission and participation

Submissions must be written in English, formatted using the ACM templates (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-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.

Accepted workshop papers will be published in the CIKM workshop proceedings, which will be printed on CD only and indexed in the ACM digital library, together with the main CIKM 2011 proceedings. One author per accepted paper is required to register and attend the workshop.

To submit a research paper (max 10 pages), position paper or project proposal (max 5 pages), please go to the BooksOnline'11 Easychair submission site.