Jeremy and I have been blogging about collaborative search for a while, and it is our pleasure to announce that Merrie Morris and we are organizing another workshop on Collaborative Information Seeking. The first workshop was held in 2008 in conjunction with the JCDL 2008 conference. We had a many interesting presentations and a lot of discussion about systems, algorithms, and evaluation.You can find the proceedings from the workshop on arXiv.org (metadata and papers) and on the workshop web site.

It’s time to revisit this topic, this time in conjunction with the CSCW 2010 conference. The workshop call for participation is here. Our goal is

to bring together researchers with backgrounds in CSCW, social computing, information retrieval, library sciences and HCI to discuss the research challenges associated with the emerging field of collaborative information seeking.

To participate, please submit a 2-4 page position paper in the ACM format by November 20th. The workshop will take place in February, in Savannah, Georgia. Hope to see you there!

After some confusion and frustration, I have created an entry for the JCDL2008 workshop on Collaborative Information Seeking on arXiv.org. The entry includes an overview page with an summary of the workshop and a link to an HTML page that contains links to the papers that were presented. Some of the papers made the ingestion cutoff today; the rest should appear on Friday.

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I wasn’t able to attend or contribute to the Collaborative Information Behavior (CIB) workshop held recently in conjunction with the GROUP 2009 conference, and was looking forward to reading about the discussion, which was posted today by Sharoda Paul.  The discussion touched on several interesting points, and perhaps we can get some of the participants to comment more on them (here or elsewhere). The notes highlight discussion around models, behavior vs. technical design, appropriate research methods, explicit vs. implicit collaboration (yeah!), and evaluation.

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