{"id":2569,"date":"2014-04-30T22:20:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T21:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2014-04-30T22:20:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T21:20:59","slug":"editorial-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/?p=2569","title":{"rendered":"Editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2635\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2635\" style=\"width: 478px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2635\" title=\"That was ECIR 2014\" src=\"https:\/\/irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/wp-content\/uploads\/ECIR2014_Overview_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"355\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">That was ECIR 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Welcome to a new edition of Informer and a very short editorial (just to find out if anybody notices). What do we have to offer this time? First of all we have a number of workshop and conference reviews. March saw the annual iConference leaving America for the first time and what better place to organise it than Berlin? <!--more--><br \/>\nWe had our reporter there who sent us a detailed account of the <a href=\"http:\/\/mindthegap2014.dai-labor.de\/?page_id=5\">Beyond single-shot text queries (MindTheGap&#8217;14)<\/a> workshop, a workshop aimed at bringing together the IR, NLP and UX communities. Was it a success? Read on in <a href=\"https:\/\/irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/?p=2469\">Jon Chamberlain&#8217;s report<\/a> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This month the IRSG&#8217;s annual flagship event took place and <a href=\"http:\/\/ecir2014.org\/\">ECIR 2014<\/a> was indeed a great success.\u00a0Thanks to the organisers for making ECIR a memorable experience! We include two reviews, Kamran Abbasi gives his account of the <a href=\"https:\/\/irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/?p=2488\">main conference<\/a> and Gabriella Kazai summarises the pre-conference workshop on <a href=\"https:\/\/irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/?p=2547\">Gamification for Information Retrieval<\/a>. A final word about ECIR 2014. If you missed the conference, you find an excellent one-minute summary by Jenda Ryb\u00e1k\u00a0on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HZ60kS-nSCQ&amp;feature=youtu.be\"> YouTube<\/a> (your task if you fancy: spot the IRSG committee members!)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not all reviews. We also have a piece on the\u00a0EU-funded COST Network\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/?p=2521\">MUMIA<\/a> written up by Mike Salampasis and John Tait. The network activities are soon coming to an end but there are still a few highlights to come this year, watch out! Speaking of highlights, among next year&#8217;s highlights will certainly be <a href=\"http:\/\/ecir2015.ifs.tuwien.ac.at\/wp\/\">ECIR 2015<\/a> and PC co-chair Allan Hanbury gives us a sneak preview into the <a href=\"https:\/\/irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/?p=2499\">Austrian IR<\/a> scene (more to follow!)<\/p>\n<p>That leaves us with another <a href=\"https:\/\/irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/?p=2573\">call for book reviewers<\/a> compiled by our books editor Cathal Gurrin and finally, as always the first piece to be ready for the new edition of Informer, the <a href=\"https:\/\/irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/?p=2464\">events diary <\/a>compiled by Andy MacFarlane. We hope you enjoy this issue and do drop us an email if you want to contribute to a future edition of Informer of be in charge of an entire issue.<\/p>\n<p>Good night!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to a new edition of Informer and a very short editorial (just to find out if anybody notices). What do we have to offer this time? First of all we have a number of workshop and conference reviews. March saw the annual iConference leaving America for the first time and what better place to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/?p=2569\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Editorial<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","category-spring-2014","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}