Hi all,
I am a postdoc researcher at the University of Bologna (Italy) and I am very
interested in Xanadu.

Jamie Blustein, Fabio Vitali and I are organizing a workshop about "new forms of
xanalogical storage and function", that might be interesting for you.

Please find enclosed the Call for Paper.

Regards,
Angelo


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CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on NEW FORMS OF XANALOGICAL STORAGE AND FUNCTION
at the ACM HYPERTEXT Conference 2009

June 29th, Turin, Italy


Workshop: http://vitali.web.cs.unibo.it/WorkshopHT09

Main Conference: http://www.ht2009.org/

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WORKSHOP THEME AND GOALS
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Xanalogical storage and transclusions were proposed at the earliest days of
modern hypertext, in order to create a global document space where users can
freely share, customize and reuse content. A Xanalogical document can be thought
of as a virtual list of linked text chunks, which can be permanently identified,
retrieved and aggregated within the system. Rich and fine-grained information
about who, when and how the chunks were edited allow users to surf and
manipulate inter-connected documents in powerful yet safe and ways.

The World Wide Web moved away the original Xanadu vision. However, new forms of
Xanalogical editing are being discovered. Active participation of users in
writing and linking web content is dramatically increasing. Blogs, wikis and
mashups all prove we are going towards (or probably we are already into) a new
Web conceived as a writing platform rather than as a reading one. Such active
participation was part original vision of the hypertext pioneers. The depth and
breadth of involvement is more than a social trend -- it is supported by many
new applications, standards and services available today.

It is now the right time to find synergies between the original Xanalogical
vision and the recent developments in the WWW. Some new ideas and new prototypes
have been recently presented by the hypertext community. This workshop is a
place to gather researchers and professionals interested in Xanalogical models
and Web editing and linking, in order to foster the discussion, provide new
research directions, and how other experts their recently developed systems and
models.


FORMAT
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The workshop will run a half day, and be divided in two equal parts, in order to
emphasize both the theoretical/algorithmic aspects and the practical
applications of the Xanalogical model. Ample space will be given to peer
discussions and brainstorming about the results of the presentations and the
ideas brought forth by participants.


INTENDED AUDIENCE
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Researchers in hypertext, Web technologies, Xanalogical models, collaborative
editing, distributed systems, etc.


IMPORTANT DATES
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* Submission: Monday 06 April 2009
* Notification: Monday 04 May 2009
* Final copy: Wednesday 20 May 2009
* Workshop: Monday 29 June 2009


SUBMISSIONS
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Authors must submit an electronic copy of their proposed articles (in
PDF) via email to XanaWorkshopHT09@.... Articles should be between of 2
and 5 pages in length, when printed using the official ACM templates
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html).


PROCEEDINGS
===========

The outcome will be published in the on-line Hypertext 2009 Workshops
proceedings and, given enough interesting contributions, may contribute to
forming the content of a special issue of a journal in a related area.

We will also consider multiple documents connected as a hypertext so long as the
total length is comparable to that for the printed versions, and the system
needed to interact with and display the hypertext is widely available (to help
with refereeing).

At least one of the authors of an accepted submission must register to the main
conference and participate in the workshop.


ORGANIZERS
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Fabio Vitali (primary contact)

Fabio Vitali is associate professor at the Department of Computer Science of the
University of Bologna. He has been interested in versioning in hypertext systems
and Xanalogical models for a long time (including the co-organization of some
workshops in the hypertext area, ECHT94 and ECSCW95). He will act as the primary
contact for this workshop.


Angelo Di Iorio

Angelo Di Iorio holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science, from the University of
Bologna. His thesis is positioned over markup languages and document engineering
areas, being focused on design patterns for digital documents segmentation.
During his master thesis and his PhD he has also worked on collaborative
authoring, document versioning and content formatting.


Jamie Blustein

Jamie is an associate professor in both the Faculties of Computer Science and
Management at Dalhousie University in Canada. He has been an active member of
the ACM Hypertext community since 1996. His primary interest in hypertext is in
personalization and augmentation.



PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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* Fabio Vitali, University of Bologna, Italy
* James Blustein, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
* Angelo Di Iorio, University of Bologna, Italy
* John Lumley, HPLabs, Bristol, UK
* Andrew Pam, Xanadu Australia, Australia
* Manolis Tzigaris, Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Greece
* Jim Rosenberg, Grindstone, PA, USA
* Phil Cox, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada