🔔 What is at the core of #OpenWebSearch?
The answer is: You! It takes the #OpenWebSearchCommunity to move the needle forward!

The yearly #ossym brings together the community for 3 full days - to discuss, present & exchange ideas + research results.

We invite representatives w/ research-, economic-, legal-, technical-, governmental backgrounds as well as anyone interested in contributing to the future of #OpenWebSearch.

#ossym24 : @LRZ_DE from 9 to11 October. More: https://suma-ev.social/@osf/112479530735801980

🗓 Save the date for our next #CommunityUpdateCall on Monday, 6 May from 15:00h to 15:45h CET.

As always we invite you to join the community and engage in the #OpenWebSearch conversation.
In addition to the technical and non-technical update, we will look into the status quo of the Third-Party contributions following Open Call 1.

👥 Want to participate?
Please take a look at the link below:
https://openwebsearch.eu/community/owseu-community-updates/
See you then! :)

#OpenWebSearchCommunity #UpdateCall #HorizonEurope #NGI

Voting closes on 26 April at 17:00 CET, and we need you! Please vote for our proposal for the #EOSC „#Unconference Session“- 📷 #OpenVote #EOSCsymposium2024 https://belnet.limesurvey.net/UnconferenceEOSCSymposium2024
🙏 #OpenWebSearchCommunity

🚀 The Midterm Consortium Meeting kicked off today!

Over a course of 3 days the ows.eu team is assembled at @Radboud_uni to finetune the roadmap for the second half of the project timeline. The agenda is packed with technical, legal, ethical, + economical questions to tackle. But there's also time to chat + socialize. A perfect opportunity to show off the #OWSome new shirts that were presented today :wink:

#OpenWebSearch #OpenWebSearchCommunity #EUproject
@EC_NGI @cern
@DLR @unileipzig @osf

🛎 Oops - we did it again!
Two new third-party #OpenCalls address innovators & researchers + data/computing centres.

The consortium asks for technical, algorithmic & software contributions for developing potential components & applications of the pilot #OpenSearchInfrastructure. Additionally, ows.eu aims to onboard data/computing centres to help expand + maintain the #OWI infrastructure.

🗣️ Call2: https://openwebsearch.eu/community/3rdparty-calls/call2/
🗣️ Call 3: https://openwebsearch.eu/community/3rdparty-calls/call3/

#OpenWebSearchCommunity #OpenCalls

🗓 Mark your calendar for the next OWS.EU Community Update Call
When: 5 February, 16-16.45 CET

Dear #OpenWebSearchCommunity,
our next ows.eu Community Update Call happens on 5 Feb. It is open to anyone with a legitimate interest in the topic of #OpenWebSearch - specifically the #OWI.

👥 How to participate?
Follow the link below to find out more. You are welcome to just join & listen. No active participation required, but it is encouraged!
https://openwebsearch.eu/community/owseu-community-updates
See you next week? 😀

👉 #OpenWebSearch #CallForPapers & Demos!

#ossym24 calls on researchers/ experts to hand in Papers & Demos by 1 March

➡ Submit now: https://lnkd.in/dX-TS8qJ

Continuing the successes of the past 5 yrs, the Open Search Symposium brings together the #OpenWebSearchCommunity in Europe again – from 9 to 11 October at @LRZ_DE in Garching + online.

Participants are researchers, data centres, libraries, policy makers, legal & ethical experts, + the civil society. Networking encouraged ;)

🗓 📌 Save the Date for #ossym24
The 6th #OpenSearchSymposium takes place from 9 to 11 October at @LRZ_DE in Garching + online.

#ossym is an international hybrid conference bringing together the #OpenWebSearchCommunity. Come and enjoy scientific talks, panels, workshops, presentations and more on #OpenWebSearch + related topics.

➡ Conference programme available soon: https://opensearchfoundation.org/en/events-osf/ossym24/

#ossym24 #OpenWebSearch #OpenWebSearchCommunity

🎆 Another year is almost over and we are ready and eager to start a new one soon!

2023 was full of events, accomplishments and growth for the #OpenWebSearchCommunity and we are proud to be a part in this!

Looking forward, we wish you all a happy and healthy new year! Together, let us keep paving the way for more transparent #OpenWebSearch!
Cheers to 2024! 🎊

⭐️ OpenSearch #AdventCalendar | Day 24 – Happy Holidays!

Thank you for following us through the world of internet search over the last 24 days. We hope you enjoyed it!

And if you now got a taste for Open Search and want to contribute, here are a few possibilities:

https://opensearchfoundation.org/en/adventcalendar-2023/

#OpenWebSearch #OpenWebSearchCommunity #OpenSearchFoundation #HappyHolidays

⭐️ OpenSearch #AdventCalendar | Day 19
ows.eu – Looking back & looking forward

As the year is slowly coming to an end and we are ready to wind down a bit, it's time for a little year in review of our OpenWebSearch.eu project.

A quick reminder: We started the Horizon EU project in September 2022 with 13 other consortium partners.

Read about the year´s highlights in today´s advent calendar post:
https://opensearchfoundation.org/en/adventcalendar-2023/

@openwebsearcheu
#OpenWebSearch #OpenWebSearchEU #OpenwebSearchCommunity

⭐️ OpenSearch #AdventCalendar | Day 15
Choose wisely - go for browser diversity

Browsers are our gateway to the WWW. So why do most of us just use the one that comes pre-configured on our phone or computer without thinking? After all, it's no big deal to change browsers - just a download away.

We asked around in the #OpenWebSearchCommunity. The preferences are different. However, everyone agrees on the the same key #tips which you can find in today´s calendar post:

https://opensearchfoundation.org/en/adventcalendar-2023/

🏊 Let´s dive into day 2 at #ossym23 (recap)

This one was special. Among the keynote speakers were no other than 🇪🇺 Věra Jourová  – Vice-president of the EU-Commission for Values and Transparency as well as Ricardo Baeza-Yates – Director at the Institute of Experiential AI at Northeastern University USA. Read about what they had to say and stay tuned for a recap of the third and final day at #OpenSearchSymposium 2023.

https://opensearchfoundation.org/en/review-ossym23-day-two/

#OpenWebSearch #OpenWebSearchCommunity

👋Meet OWS.EU Third-Party Partner #LAW4OSAI

📍Enabling license-aware crawling of web content by automatically identifying and retrieving content licenses. We welcome Daniel Braun, Bernhard Waltl & Balthasar Cevc onboard.

⬇️ Read more: https://openwebsearch.eu/partners/owseu-project-law4osai/

#OpenWebSearch #OpenWebSearchCommunity

Assessing the „Market Potential“ of an #OpenWebIndex
👋 Meet OWS.EU Third-party partner Mücke Roth & Company

📍The Mücke Roth & Company team surrounding Daniel Nowakowski brings their management consulting expertise into OWS.EU to evaluate economic & non-economic aspects, including societal, cultural and environmental dimensions.

📍Mücke Roth & Company is a management consultancy in the heart of Munich.
➡️ More: https://lnkd.in/dj_9wEsZ

#OpenWebSearch #OpenWebSearchCommunity @osf

The first third-party funded project partners are on board!
They were selected from the first open call in spring and will enrich the #EU #horizonEurope project OpenWebSearch.eu with their expertise.
A warm welcome!

More info: https://openwebsearch.eu/third-parties-onboarding

#OpenWebSearch #OpenWebSearchCommunity #OpenWebSearchEU #HorizonEurope
@EC_NGI

Last week, Europe called the #OpenWebSearchCommunity⬇
@frauplote founding + board member of the @osf moderated a panel on #OpenWebSearch + #LLMs at the #NGIForum23 in Brussels.
The gathering brought together @EC_NGI's project teams, high-level #EU policy people, researchers and innovators in an inspiring event.
Also in the panel of experts: @grani of University Passau, principal investigator of @openwebsearcheu and OSF member

🗣️ Community Announcement!
Our 1st Monthly #OpenWebSearchCommunity Update uniting our #Mattermost cohort started in November. @grani Granitzer kindly introduced the open Jupyter Book which contains plenty of tutorials for collaborating. Info on how to join the community will follow soon.
#OpenWebSearch