Dear Compendium and Dialogue Mapping colleagues

We are delighted to announce that this year's workshop is moving, for
the first time since our first gathering in 1999, to Europe. We hope
that this move from the US will make it easier for a different section
of the community to attend a gathering. We will be in the historic city
of Nantes in western France, and we warmly encourage you to consider
joining us for food and discussion of the highest quality! Please also
consider submitting a short or long paper which reflects on your
experiences with Compendium... we are as interested in practitioner
reports as more academic/research oriented.

Check out the 2005 workshop for a flavour of these informal but highly
stimulating events:
http://www.compendiuminstitute.org/community/workshops/2005

Regards

Simon & Al

Compendium Institute :: European Workshop 2006
29-30 June, 2006, Nantes
http://www.compendiuminstitute.org/community/workshops/2006

Call for Participation
Introduction
Compendium is an approach to crafting real time knowledge
representations to support sensemaking. Grounded in the IBIS notation
for conversational modelling, Compendium combines a hypermedia
knowledge mapping tool which is optimized for real time use in
discussions, with methods for group facilitation, systematic modelling,
and dialogue mapping. Building on our successful 2005 workshop, the
global Compendium community is growing rapidly.

This year's workshop and tutorial will be held in Nantes, as part of
SdC 2006 - Semaine de la Connaissance ("Knowledge Week") where several
major national conferences and workshops are being co-located to
promote breadth and synergy. (Note that the Compendium workshop's
working language will be English).

Simon Buckingham Shum will give a keynote address to SdC on 28 June, so
the Compendium workshop provides SdC delegates with the opportunity to
go deeper into one of the approaches about which he will be speaking.

Presentations will last 45 minutes (30 minutes presentation, 15 minutes
discussion) and should be made using Compendium as the presentation
medium. This can be supplemented by printed papers, graphics, videos,
and other materials.

Workshop format
The workshop will open with a half-day tutorial introducing Compendium,
led by Compendium Institute co-founders Al Selvin and Simon Buckingham
Shum, followed by 1.5 days of presentations and discussions from
practitioners and researchers.

Topics can include:
• advanced applications of Compendium
• comparisons of Compendium to other approaches
• best practices and novel techniques

Submission format
Full papers (max. 10 pages, including references) on the topic of your
presentation.
Short papers (2-3 pages) about experiences, as well as developed or
needed tool features are also acceptable.
Submit your full or short paper to submissions@....
Please use the Word template so that we have a consistently formatted
collection of papers from the event.
Final versions of accepted papers will distributed to all attendees,
and made available on the CompendiumInstitute.org website.

Dates
Paper submission: 18 April 2006
Notification of acceptance and requests for revisions: to be confirmed
Final camera-ready copy due: to be confirmed

Registration and Accommodation
Details will be posted as soon as confirmed with the SdC organisers.
Registration is likely to be about 180 Euros, to cover all meals, and
the conference banquet. You can book very reasonable accommodation via
the SdC Accommodation Page, and this link to Nantes Tourist
Information.

Programme Committee
Co-Chairs: Simon Buckingham Shum (KMi, Open Univ., UK) and Al Selvin
(KMi, Open Univ., UK, and Verizon, USA)
Mark Arkhus (Rutgers Univ., USA)
Jeff Conklin (CogNexus Institute, USA)
Maarten Sierhuis (NASA Ames, USA)