CfP: 7th International Open Search Symposium #ossym2025, 8-10 October 2025, Helsinki, Finland

[Gürtl, Sebastian]

Dear Experts, Supporters and Friends of Open Internet Search!

We are pleased to promote the 7th International Open Search Symposium #ossym2025. The conference will take place in Helsinki, Finland, and online from 8 to 10 October 2025.

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.

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).

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).
All abstracts and papers have to be submitted at https://indico.cern.ch/e/OSSYM-2025 using the templates specified there. The acceptance of all full papers and extended abstracts is subject of a peer-review process.

In case you want to organize a thematic session or workshop, please contact us with a one page proposal at ossym at opensearchfoundation.org<mailto:ossym at opensearchfoundation.org>.

We are looking forward to your contributions and to seeing you in October in Helsinki!

On behalf of the organizing committee,
Michael Granitzer, University Passau, Germany; Christian Guetl, Graz University of Technology, Austria; Heidi Laine, CSC, Espoo, Finland; Per Öster, CSC, Espoo, Finland; Megi Sharikadze, LRZ, Germany; Stefan Voigt, Open Search Foundation, Germany; Andreas Wagner, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.

Important Dates
Submission of full papers and extended abstracts
March 1, 2025
Information about contribution acceptance
June 1, 2025
Registration for the #ossym2025
Will open June 15, 2025
International Open Search Symposium #ossym2025
October 8-10, 2025

Online publication of proceedings
October 2025

Topics of #ossym2025 include but are not limited to

  *   Open search architectures and platforms
  *   Open Web Index and application domains
  *   Federated search and cross-domain search
  *   Web Data Analytics and Web Mining
  *   Natural language and multi-media processing for search
  *   Large Language Models, Machine learning and generative AI
  *   AI-based search and Retrieval Augmented Generation
  *   Personalisation and recommendation in search
  *   Conversational Retrieval Experiences
  *   Georeferencing of web content and geospatial search and analysis
  *   Evaluation of open search systems
  *   Applications of open search in domains such as science, e-commerce, health, and education
  *   Search engine advertising and business models in an open search world
  *   Search bias and trust
  *   Economic dimensions of open search
  *   Green computing and sustainability
  *   Societal and ethical challenges and solutions
  *   Politics and governance
  *   Legal aspects

Conference Chairs
Michael Granitzer | University Passau, Germany
Christian Guetl | Graz University of Technology, Austria
Megi Sharikadze, LRZ, Germany
Stefan Voigt | Open Search Foundation, Germany
Andreas Wagner | CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Local Chairs and Organization
Per Öster | CSC, Espoo, FInland

Publication Chairs
Andreas Wagner
Sebastian Gürtl
Elias Sandner

Poster Session Chairs
Iiris Liinamaa
Heidi Laine

Programme Committee (please refer to the website for updates)
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