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Author(s): Reinhardt, Wolfgang; Maicher, Julian; Drachsler, Hendrik; Sloep, Peter B.
Title: Awareness support in scientific event management with ginkgo
In: Lindstaedt, Stefanie; Granitzer, Michael (Hrsg.): i-KNOW '11: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies, Graz, Austria - September 07 - 09, 2011, New York; NY: Association for Computing Machinery, 2011 , S. 40:1-40:8
DOI: 10.1145/2024288.2024336
Publication Type: 4. Beiträge in Sammelwerken; Tagungsband/Konferenzbeitrag/Proceedings
Language: Englisch
Abstract: The management of scientific events is a prestigious job that goes together with many tasks that have to be carried out in a timely and highly parallel fashion. Conference management systems (CMSs) have simplified the process and have given decision-support features to the organizers but still there is room for improvements. With the social media movement of the last decade, computer-mediated social interactions and professional networking have also gained importance for scholars. Those interactions take place outside of CMSs. Thus, a rich source of information is ceded to social networking services that could be used for a better quality of service and more awareness support for all stakeholders in CMSs. In this paper we introduce ginkgo as a novel approach to scientific event management that brings together well-known features of classic CMSs with those of common features of social networking sites to make scientific event management more social and awareness supporting. (Orig.)