To be presented at #ECIR2026 by @gijs; with @arjen: "Open Web Indexes for Remote Querying"

https://djoerdhiemstra.com/2026/open-web-indexes-for-remote-querying/

🇫🇮 🦌 The OpenWebSearch.eu consortium members came together in Finland for two days at the beginning of the week to work out a strategy for the remaining project tasks yet to tackle!
Thank you to the @CSC team for hosting us and making us feel so welcome throughout our stay! Meillä oli hauskaa! 🙏

A special shoutout to the team members that couldn't participate in person! You sure were missed!

Curious about who stands behind OpenWebSearch.eu?
We are continuing with our #partnerportrait series on the blog. This time around we are introducing the team at Radboud University in the Netherlands. Read the interview with Arjen P. de Vries 🕊️ and Gijs Hendriksen below! 👇

https://openwebsearch.eu/ows-eu-partner-in-focus-radboud-university/

To be presented at #ECIR2025 in Lucca Italy: Efficient Session Retrieval Using Topical Index Shards; with @gijs and @arjen. #ECIR25

https://djoerdhiemstra.com/2025/efficient-session-retrieval-using-topical-index-shards/

2nd International Workshop on Open Web Search: Call for Participation

We invite you to participate in the ECIR 2025 Workshop on Open Web Search.

Since much of the web search technology stack is closed source, and many even basic pieces of technology for building a scalable web search engine are missing, the WOWS workshop aims to promote, discuss, and develop an open web search ecosystem.

Learn more at https://opensearchfoundation.org/wows2025

#ECIR2025 #WOWS2025 #ECIR25 #ECIR

🙌 Wow! The #wows24 proceedings showcase 8 relevant research papers + one Keynote topic on #OpenWebSearch

The information + retrieval & OpenWebSearch community met in Glasgow in March at the first International Workshop on Open Web Search #wows2024, co-located with #ecir2024

The proceedings are now available to the public:
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3689/

Thank you to the editors:
Sheikh Mastura Farzana
@maik_froebe Fröbe
@gijs Hendriksen
@grani Granitzer
@djoerd
@potthast Potthast
Saber Zerhoudi

The Proceedings on the first Workshop on Open Web Search (#WOWS2024), which took place on 28 March 2024 in Glasgow, UK, are now published in the CEUR Workshop Series as Volume 3689.

https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3689/