I will soon be heading out to the airport to fly to Korea where I will be co-chairing Web Document Analysis 2005 and attending ICDAR 2005. Hopefully this doesn't mean a break in posting, but there is that possibility.
When working on the organization of WDA with Ethan Munson, we decided to use a blog as the communication channel. I think using a blog in this situation is perfect - actually, it's the syndication part that is perfect as it allows interested parties to keep up to date with developments in a passive way, and it allows the organizers to have a single drop point for updates - no email lists to maintain!
I'm still searching for blogs that cover document analysis/document understanding, I noticed that links to the main conference were very thin on the ground. There is some irony here as blogs and other forms of online personal media are a great area for web document analysis research.
Any chance of getting a podcast of the conference? I need to start recording all of my conversations on my Mac and then broadcasting them on the net.
Blinkx would be perfect for then searching the data.
Posted by: Kevin Burton | August 25, 2005 at 03:51 PM
Kevin,
I don't plan to record/podcast the Workshop or the conference. I believe that doing this for conferences in general (not blog specific conferences) is going to take a while to organize. I think there are some obvious mechanisms that could be put in place to help, for example uploading papers and abstracts to blog posts to enable commenting (something we did at the last Weblog workshop held at WWW in Japan).
Posted by: Matthew Hurst | August 26, 2005 at 09:35 PM