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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Experts, Supporters and Friends of Open Internet Search!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We are pleased to promote the 7<sup>th</sup> International Open Search Symposium #ossym2025. The conference will take place in Helsinki, Finland, and online from 8 to 10 October 2025.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Looking back six years and continuing the success of the event, the #ossym Open Search Symposium series brings together the European and international Open Internet Search community for the seventh time. The hybrid conference provides a
forum to discuss and further develop the ideas and concepts of open Internet search and related topics in various formats including scientific talks, poster sessions, panels, workshops, demonstrations, student engagement and informal discussion spaces. Participants
include researchers, data centres, libraries, policy makers, legal and ethical experts, and the broader community.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are calling for your participation with scientific papers, sharing of practical experiences or by introducing concepts and positions in relevant fields, such as computer science, legal, economics and ethics. Full papers and abstracts
presented at the #ossym2025 will be published open access in online proceedings (including DOIs and ISBN).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Please submit your papers: for research contributions, we accept full papers (4-6 pages) and for any other contribution (posters, concepts, best practices or practitioners’ experiences) an extended abstract (1 page).</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">All abstracts and papers have to be submitted at <b><a href="https://indico.cern.ch/e/OSSYM-2025">https://indico.cern.ch/e/OSSYM-2025</a>
</b>using the templates specified there. The acceptance of all full papers and extended abstracts is subject of a peer-review process.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In case you want to organize a thematic session or workshop, please contact us with a one page proposal at
<u><a href="mailto:ossym@opensearchfoundation.org">ossym@opensearchfoundation.org</a>.</u><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are looking forward to your contributions and to seeing you in October in Helsinki!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On behalf of the organizing committee,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Michael Granitzer, University Passau, Germany; Christian Guetl, Graz University of Technology, Austria; Heidi Laine, CSC, Espoo, Finland; Per Öster, CSC, Espoo, Finland;
<a name="_Hlk185408561">Megi Sharikadze, LRZ, Germany;</a> Stefan Voigt, Open Search Foundation, Germany; Andreas Wagner, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk181974822"><b>Important Dates</b></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Submission of full papers and extended abstracts</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">March 1, 2025<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Information about contribution acceptance</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">June 1, 2025<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Registration for the #ossym2025</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Will open June 15, 2025<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>International Open Search Symposium #ossym2025</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">October 8-10, 2025<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Online publication of proceedings</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">October 2025<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Topics of #ossym2025 include but are not limited to</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Open search architectures and platforms<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Open Web Index and application domains<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Federated search and cross-domain search<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Web Data Analytics and Web Mining<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Natural language and multi-media processing for search<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Large Language Models, Machine learning and generative AI<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">AI-based search and Retrieval Augmented Generation<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Personalisation and recommendation in search<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Conversational Retrieval Experiences<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Georeferencing of web content and geospatial search and analysis<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Evaluation of open search systems<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Applications of open search in domains such as science, e-commerce, health, and education<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Search engine advertising and business models in an open search world<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Search bias and trust<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Economic dimensions of open search<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Green computing and sustainability<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Societal and ethical challenges and solutions<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Politics and governance<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Legal aspects<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Conference Chairs</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Michael Granitzer | University Passau, Germany<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Christian Guetl | Graz University of Technology, Austria<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Megi Sharikadze, LRZ, Germany<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Stefan Voigt | Open Search Foundation, Germany<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Andreas Wagner | CERN, Geneva, Switzerland<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Local Chairs and Organization</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Per Öster | CSC, Espoo, FInland<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Publication Chairs</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Andreas Wagner<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sebastian Gürtl<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Elias Sandner<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Poster Session Chairs</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Iiris Liinamaa<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Heidi Laine<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Programme Committee </b>(please refer to the website for updates)<o:p></o:p></p>
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