SIGWEB Viability Report - August 2005
Peter J. Nürnberg
Chair, SIGWEB
background
- founded c. 15 years ago as SIGLINK
- changed name to SIGWEB in 1998
- members from different fields
(computer science, literary studies, library studies) - members from different professions
(academics, professionals, writers) - common member themes:
- Doug Englebart's vision of augmenting the human intellect
- Vannevar Bush's vision of building tools that fit the way people think
fora
- HT: Hypertext Conference
- JCDL: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
- DocEng: Symposium on Document Engineering
- ICSOC: International Conference on Service Oriented Computing
up-to-now
- membership:
- significant slippage through June 2004
- stabilized recently
- reflects dropping conference attendance
- money:
- 3-year moving average stable at c. $155K
- current fund balance reflects conference difficulties in FY 05
- fora:
- attendance slowly slipping in "core" fora
- attendance improving at new fora
present
- recent new elections
- old XC now in new, non-XC positions
- new XC contains mix of new, long-time volunteers
- working on new long-term sponsorship/support agreements
- WWW starting 2007 (agreed in principle)
- ICWE starting 2006 (agreed in principle)
- CIKM starting 2006(?) (talks underway)
- working on stronger ties to regional groups
- GI-Hypertextsysteme (Germany)
- SBC-Multimedia/Hypermedia (Brazil)
future
- more work in electronic publishing
- HT 2005 will pilot CD-only proceedings
- considering other fora for CD-only
- more proactive event management
- more proactive participation in steering committees
- different vetting process for GCs
- new membership services centered around web site, DL
- "members-only" areas on web site
- central location for conference wikis, etc.
- ACM DL binders
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