ACM SIGWEB

SIGWEB is one of the Special Interest Groups of the Association for Computing Machinery. SIGWEB was named SIGLINK until November 1998. Its new name welcomes members concerned with the World Wide Web as well as those concerned with other aspects of hypertext and hypermedia. The 34 ACM Special Interest Groups offer a wealth of publications, conferences and resource archives covering a broad spectrum of technical expertise and providing first-hand knowledge of the latest development trends. As one of the ACM Special Interest Groups, SIGWEB is bound by the SIGWEB by-laws.[1]

Overview

SIGWEB is a community of scholars, researchers, and professionals who study and use the concepts and technologies of linked information that were originally conceived as hypertext and are most famously realized on the Web. The SIGWEB community’s interests range widely and include hypertext in all its forms, social networks, knowledge management, document engineering, digital libraries, and the Web as both an information tool and a social force. SIGWEB encourages innovative research, open discussion of new ideas and the development of methodologies and standards through conferences and a variety of communication resources for its members and the world. Now in its third decade, SIGWEB has grown considerably and now sponsors six annual conferences of different sizes and covering a wide range of topics.

Activities

SIGWEB promotes and participates in the following activities:

Sponsored Conferences

SIGWEB sponsors 6 Main conferences

Awards

Hypertext Douglas Engelbart Best Paper Award

The Douglas Engelbart Best Paper Award for best paper which is named after Douglas C. Engelbart, in recognition of his life's work and contributions to the field of hypertext and hypermedia.

Hypertext Ted Nelson Newcomer Award

Ted Nelson Newcomer Award for best newcomer paper which is presented to the best paper written by authors who have never published in earlier Hypertext proceedings.

SIGWEB DocEng Best Paper Award

Presented annually at the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng). Authors of the winning paper will share a $1000 honorarium and each will receive a plaque.

SIGWEB/SIGIR Vannevar Bush Award

The Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award is given to the best paper that is presented at the JCDL (and earlier ACM DL) since 1998. All full papers that are accepted for presentation are eligible and the JCDL Steering Committee selects the winner.

Best paper at the JCDL conference (more information)

Executive Committee

Current

Past Chairs

Past Vice-Chairs

Past Treasurers

Past At-large Members

References

  1. ↑ "SIGWEB By-laws". Retrieved 2 November 2012.
  2. ↑ Conference. "ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media". ACM. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
  3. ↑ Sponsors. "Joint Conference on Digital Libraries". JCDL. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
  4. ↑ Overview. "The ACM Symposium on Document Engineering". DocEng. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
  5. ↑ Overview. "The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management". CIKM. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
  6. ↑ Conferences. "The ACM Web Science Conference". Web Science Trust. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
  7. ↑ Conferences. "The ACM Web Search and Data Mining Conference". WSDM. Retrieved 1 November 2012.

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