The Workshop on Open Web Search just finished #WOWS2025 #ECIR2025.

It was a very cool experience with many interesting talks. Lets hope we can do it again next year at #ECIR2026 in Delft :)

The Workshop on Open Web Search just finished #WOWS2025 #ECIR2025. It was a very cool experience with many interesting talks. Lets hope we can do it again next year at #ECIR2026 in Delft :)

🍦🌞 Bringing a bit of "Dolce Vita" to the future of web search!
The 2nd International Workshop on Open Web Search #wows2025 takes place at Lucca, Italy today. It is hosted by some team members from our project - as part of the #ECIR25 conference.

#wows2025 aims to promote + discuss ideas & approaches to open up the web search ecosystem so that small research groups & startups can leverage the web to foster an open & diverse search market.

We will share the 2025 proceedings asap. :)

The Workshop on Open Web Search at #ECIR2025 just starts with a keynote by Charlie Clarke on Annotative Indexing. #WOWS25 #WOWS2025 #ECIR25

The Workshop on Open Web Search at #ECIR2025 just starts with a keynote by @claclarke.bsky.social on Annotative Indexing. #WOWS25 #WOWS2025 #ECIR25

📣 Call for Papers: 2. International Workshop on Open Web Search

Our team is hosting #wows2025 as part of #ECIR2025 (6-10 April in Italy).

Join to discuss approaches to open up the #WebSearchEcosystem to foster an open, diverse search market.

The 1st Call for papers seeks ideas along the pipeline for creating an #OWI, i.e. crawling, preprocessing, enrichment, indexing, + serving (parts of) an open web index to Also #ethical, #legal & #social aspects are welcome: https://opensearchfoundation.org/en/events-osf/wows2025/

🎉Hello 2025! This year we will keep expanding our team + host a bunch of events:

📍Are you a law student looking for a research position in the digital field?
https://opensearchfoundation.org/werkstudentin-digital-recht-w-m-x-2/

📍#Wows2025 is calling for papers: https://opensearchfoundation.org/wows2025/

📍#ossym25 goes to Finland! We are calling for contributions & papers: https://opensearchfoundation.org/events-d/ossym25-d/

👉 Stay in the loop:
📍 Sign up to: https://opensearchfoundation.org/en/newsletter-e/ )
📍 Follow us: https://suma-ev.social/@osf

With the start of 2025, we have decided to call it quits on X.

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