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June 2020
Issue 16 | 2020
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In this, surely special, summer edition of the European Student Chapter & European Chapter (ESC & EC) newsletter we will present you a variety of topics. For a new section, hopefully only relevant for this edition, European scholars show how they are coping with the COVID-19 pandemic. Of course, this year's events are also reflected in the category "I was at...," where information professionals report on their very different experiences during this year's conferences. To hold on to some normality, our interview series continues as before - this time with Olof Sundin, Lund University. Furthermore, do not miss to catch up on all relevant information for this year’s participation in the ASIS&T European Student Chapter Scientivity Contest 2020. If you would like to be part of a fun community and take on some responsibility, we would love to see you on board - elections for the EC and ESC officer positions are starting soon! We hope you enjoy reading this newsletter! Your Chapters
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ASIS&T ANNUAL MEETING 2020 Goes Virtual Dates, Platform: TBA
Attention: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 83rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting will not be held in Pittsburgh, but goes virtual! This year's annual meeting runs under the slogan "Information for a Sustainable World: Addressing Society’s Grand 
Challenges." Are ASIS&T members working as change agents actively addressing society’s grand challenges? What is the impact of having access to information to address the 17 Sustainable Development Goal(s) (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda, and what solutions are needed to tackle society’s associated grand challenges? The 2020 ASIS&T Annual Meeting will serve as a forum to co-learn, problematize, discover, design information work, scholarship, education, and innovation. Collaborations and interdisciplinary are cornerstones of a collective impact 
approach and such initiatives and 
experiences are welcome. For further updates on the dates, pricing and platform, please visit: https://www.asist.org/am20/
Olof Sundin, Lund University
Following the interview series from the newsletters' last editions, we are happy to continue the series, starring Information Science professionals from all over Europe. Our goal is to show students of Information Science what research questions are asked and answered by European researchers right now. We're also hoping to paint a portrait of the people we're interviewing - why did they go into the field? What keeps them there? What do they think the future of Information Science looks like? For this issue we have Olof Sundin, Professor in Information Science at Lund University, Sweden. Do you know someone you'd like to see interviewed by us? Let us know!
Interview Series
Tell us a little about yourself. Who are you? What institution are you affiliated with?
I live with my family in Lund in the south of Sweden. It is a rather small town with a large university and in many ways a traditional European university town with ivy on the main library and everything. I have two boys who are 8 and 11, and they keep me really busy. A lot of my spare time goes to helping them with homework and taking them to all kinds of activities. When I’m able to choose myself, I rather watch football. This spring without any football have been hard for me... The closest I have come to football has been my zoom-background photo from BBC’s archive showing the set of Match of the day. Instead, I have taken care of our minimal garden and been quite overprotective of our few plants. What are you currently working on? I currently work on the project “Algorithms and Literacies: Young people's understanding and society's expectationsâ€, which is funded by the Swedish Research Council. In this project, Jutta Haider and I have among other things delved into the question of algorithms in relation to peoples’ trust, mistrust and distrust. Trust in, for example, information from public authorities and science is important for any democracy, but trust can also be passive and naïve. How can we support a healthy mistrust without ending up in total skepticism and distrust? The current discussion of fighting so-called fake news, whatever that is, and disinformation is often too simplistic. I hope our project can develop intellectual tools for a better understanding of what is going on. In addition to a few articles, of which I hope at least two will appear online this year, Jutta and I am about to send in a proposal for a new book. That will be a kind of follow up from our Invisible Search and Online Search Engines book from 2019. This time we will shift the focus to information literacy. Have your research interests changed over time? Yes of course. I defended my thesis back in 2003 at the University of Gothenburg. I still think it is a good thesis, but over the years I have developed a stronger interest in sociomaterial aspects of information and information behavior. In fact, an understanding of the infrastructure of information is an important characteristic for both information researchers and professionals. Another change might be that I have taken my research interest closer to the area of information literacy. I have always wanted to make a difference with my research, also outside the academy, and information literacy is an obvious field for information scientists, librarians and other information professionals to engage in. How did you become a professor in your field? (e.g. Was it something you knew you wanted to be in a quite early stage of your career or something that developed over time?) I started my professional career as a librarian, a job I really liked. To begin with I had no real interest in pursuing an academic career. At least I don’t remember that. Then I got the chance to work as a librarian in a research project and I really enjoyed that. However, I realized that I needed a PhD to continue working in research projects. One thing led to another – and a bit of luck was of course involved, but of course also work – and I woke up with a funded PhD position. From there on, I think my goal was set to stay and develop in the academy. What do you think does the future of 
Information Science look like? This is a very complicated question of course, but I’ll try to do it justice. On the one hand, I think, the future is bright, in the sense that there will lots to do critical research on. But this comes of course at a price. Many of the challenges that information science has taken on for many years has now come into the spotlight of many disciplines. That is, the overall research problems that guide many of us have been identified as extremely important, both outside and inside the academy. On the other hand, this means information science has no longer as a monopoly on this type of research like we almost had before. We have a long tradition and a huge backpack of important knowledge, but if we don’t manage to show that, we run the risk of becoming less visible. We can see the same development also in libraries. These days libraries have to compete with a number of actors in society. Another challenge is that information science is located at different faculties in different universities. In some places information science leans towards computer science, in others it leans more towards the humanities and social science. In a way this is a unique strength of the disciplines, but it also adds to the risk of creating problems regarding the ability to develop a common understanding and language to talk about the challenges we face. The more confident we are in our own discipline, the easier it will be to be visible as a discipline and to cooperate with others. Is there anything you would like to say or recommend to Information Science students from Europe? Be bold, be loud and make a difference! There are so many important topics for information science researchers as well as for professionals to address. Don’t hesitate if you are given a chance to work with research. If you end up outside the academy, think of the information sector as a moving target and you should try to see yourself as someone who has the responsibility in moving the sector in a direction that is compatible with the ethics of the profession. Information science is not only about systems and access in a narrow sense. Ultimately, like all research, it’s about people. Stand up for integrity and privacy; work for the public good and equal access; and critical information literacy education for all. And don’t forget to have fun! Twitter: @olofsun, Research Gate
COVID-19 How do European scholars cope with the current situation?
INGO BARKOW Tell us a little about yourself. 
Who are you? I am a Professor of Data Management and since last year the head of the Swiss Institute of Information Science at the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons in Chur / Switzerland. Before moving here I used to work as a Data Manager at the German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF) in Frankfurt. I was not always working in academia. Before going back into research I was for more than 10 years the managing director of an IT training company. What are you currently working on? From the perspective of research projects I just started a four years’ project called “Virtual Educational Observatory†(VEO) where we try to link data from different educational large scale studies like e.g. PISA, PIRLS, TIMMS with administrative data from sources like our national statistical institution to create enhanced datasets and ideally something like a virtual panel study including episode data. Additionally to this I am in the process of designing the curriculum for a four years’ consecutive international PhD program between different universities leading to three Certificates of Advanced Studies (CAS), one Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) and the PhD at the end. It will make use of our experiences with online teaching, be fully remote accessible and contain summer and winter schools in interesting locations within Europe. How do you cope with COVID-19 regarding online teaching? As I am the head of the institute my job in the meantime contains much more administrative work than teaching. In the spring semester I did not have any classes to teach and therefore did not have to prepare any online methods. Nevertheless, the change towards online teaching went very well at our university as we already had a lot of the infrastructure in place. A considerable part of our degree programs are part time e.g. our Master degree classes only take place on Friday and Saturday as it is quite common in Switzerland to work 60-80% while preparing for the degree as a part-time student. As most students cannot come to every class we record every session, use techniques like inverted classroom or other concepts of blended learning with heavy emphasis on remote learning. We therefore had to change the other programs to match the systematic we already use in the Master program. Still it was quite stressful for my colleagues to change the curriculum from one day to another, but they really succeeded quickly in doing so.
INGO BARKOW Advantages/disadvantages of working from home? Has anything changed? For me working from home was actually an advantage as I am much more productive, save the time to come to the office and can take longer breaks in between for doing some sports. I am also a person who does not have a problem staying indoors for a longer time. Nevertheless, I know colleagues who suffer from having no interaction with other colleagues and we had some newly hired persons (e.g. from the VEO project described above) who started their new job immediately from home without getting to know the rest of the institute. We therefore implemented virtual coffee breaks at 10:00 in the morning and 15:00 in the afternoon so those colleagues at least got a minimum of interaction. Funniest/interesting moment during home office? While I had an online meeting with partners from other universities our cat had a bad day (she is quite old) and did not feel well. During the call she jumped onto me and wanted to be belly rubbed to feel better while meowing loudly. I switched off the camera and the others wondered what happened. I then explained the situation and I had to switch the camera on again to show the cat. Well, the rest of the meeting was more or less only about the cat... What do you think about conferences/events changed to online events? First I was quite sceptical, but for shorter events it actually also worked quite well. We had last week a virtual two day hackathon with 115 participants and it was quite a success. We will also change the summer school we will host with the University of Zadar end of August to an online event. I have not joined online conferences which span multiple days or weeks (I will join ATP 2020 in September and ASIS&T 2020 in October) and I wonder if this works out. I think one of the biggest challenges might be networking. Sitting in front of a webcam with a beer as a kind of happy hour might work from time to time but I do not think it can replace the normal atmosphere of conference evenings in the current form.
ISABELLA PETERS Tell us a little about yourself. 
Who are you? I am Isabella and I work as a professor of Web Science at ZBW Leibniz Information Center for Economics and Kiel University in the north of Germany. What are you currently working on? Similar to almost the rest of the academic world I am working from home right now, which includes online teaching, supervision and the management of research projects. How do you cope with COVID-19 regarding online teaching? Regarding teaching the greatest challenge for me is to accept that in online learning environments it is difficult to transport the enthusiasm I have for certain topics. Also, I truly miss the in-class-room-exchange with the students. Advantages/disadvantages of working from home? Has anything changed? The same holds for the regular meetings with my team. Video conferencing is only a small cure against social distancing. I even think that it has become a little bit more difficult to stay in touch with colleagues and friends, although we have more digital tools for communication and networking. However, I – and I also see this with colleagues – have become a little bit Zoom-sick. The most wonderful aspect of working from home is that I was able to move my desk in the garden. On sunny days I work and read outside – this, sometimes, feels like holidays. Anyways, I hope that in the future we all will find a good balance of offline-f2f- and online-distant-life.
JOACHIM GRIESBAUM Tell us a little about yourself. Who are you? I am a professor for information science at the University of Hildesheim. 
What are you currently working on? At current, we are preparing the second conference in our project “Information Literacy and Democracy†on 19th and 20th June 2020. Due to the current pandemic, the project team decided to hold the conference online. In the online IDE Conference, we want to highlight various aspects of information literacy. In particular, the international perspective on the topic will be included. We have invited speakers from the USA, Sweden, Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina and India. In different online sessions, such as lectures via video, question and discussion sessions, workshops and online discussions, we would like to exchange ideas and discuss problems and possible solutions. If you are interested, participation in the conference is free of charge. For further information have a look here. How do you cope with COVID-19 regarding online teaching? Actually, seen from the learning provision perspective, not that much has changed. Learning material is provided beforehand, can be "consumed" in a self-paced manner. Discussions are online. Basically, this corresponds roughly to a flipped classroom metaphor. I try to limit uncertainties on part of the learners by providing more explicit information on the learning process, e.g. for each course, on Monday, I write an email to all participants. The email describes the current state of the course (where are we?) and specifies the learning activities (what is to do?). So far, the feedback is positive. Seen from the learners perspective, I guess online teaching offers some freedom. At the same time, it is more demanding with regard to "self-controllability". I guess for some learners it is a challenge to come up with/keep up a fitting learning regime. Advantages/disadvantages of working from home? Has anything changed? Yes, I can work form everywhere now. That is quite a comfortable situation. On the other hand, attending video conferences nearly everyday is sometimes tiring.
JOACHIM GRIESBAUM Funniest/interesting moment during home office? Good question. Hmm, I don't know. To have some visual impressions of colleague's living envirmoments? 

What do you think about conferences/events changed to online events? Much easier to take part in online conferences, and also much easier to be only partly present. A chance and a challenge at the same time. With regard to social capital, I guess at current we rather live on substance and do not build up so much new (social capital/trust).
OLIVIA PESTANA Tell us a little about yourself. Who are you? I’m an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto (FLUP), since 2013, in the Department of Communication and Information Sciences. Between 1997 and 2013, I’ve worked in the healthcare sector as head librarian and information manager. I’m also a researcher at CITCEM (Transdisciplinary Culture, Space and Memory Research Centre) and CLUP (Centre of Linguistics of the University of Porto). Currently, my research focuses mainly on knowledge organisation, content analysis and subject indexing in various domains. I confess that I enjoy working in multidisciplinary teams, and Information Science allows it. How do you cope with COVID-19 regarding online teaching? I’ve prepared new classes from one day to another because I only had the face to face classes. I was familiar with technologies and already used a distance learning platform for sharing with students the slides presentations, suggested readings and complementary materials. But classes alignment and maintaining students motivation required a different strategy. Initially, I used synchronous Zoom sessions for all classes and Slideshare. Then I’ve decided to record Videos and Podcasts, and use Zoom sessions or chat for exercises and tutorial meetings with students. Students enjoy this model because they can review and listen as many times as they want. This option is also highly successful when international students go back to their home countries because Videos and Podcasts are available at any timezone. Advantages/disadvantages of working from home? Has anything changed? Working from home was the major challenge I had to face during the pandemic (fortunately!). The main advantage is looking at classes in a different way, testing/exploring new opportunities, and thinking about introducing new tools in the next academic year. Flipped classes can now be applied without fear. Another advantage is that short meetings with colleagues can be planned without problems. It’s a lesson: many times meetings can be online, and we spare time, money and contribute to a healthier environment by avoiding so much time in the traffic. The main disadvantage is the lack of personal contact with students, considering both the moments in the classroom and the moments for the individual tutorial. Online interaction is OLIVIA PESTANA incomplete. How I missed students' joy and expressiveness during last months! Another disadvantage is the limited access to libraries. Using Virtual Private Networks allows access to subscribed publications, but there's nothing compared to browsing shelves and slowly flip through a book. Funniest/interesting moment during home office? I've met students' and colleagues' cats, dogs and birds. It was amusing to have an international research meeting hearing a colleague's birds singing. 

What do you think about conferences/events changed to online events? I think that it started a different way of looking at such events. Conferences and congresses should be inclusive. Some students, academics, and professionals don't have enough funding to face travelling and accommodation costs. Others have mobility limitations and have to explain them to the organisation. Nevertheless, direct contact with colleagues is, of course, precious and discussions are stimulating. There are some types of interaction that can't be organised virtually, and new ways of planning sessions are needed. I suppose that, from now on, both possibilities for the same events will be allowed: attendance and online. We all have to take lessons from the pandemic and promote a more inclusive and sustainable world.
I was at... ...the 9th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference
I am: Joanna Mazur, PhD student (still...) at the University of Warsaw (Faculty of Law and Administration) in Poland. I work in Digital Economy Lab (DELab) at the University of Warsaw as an analyst. This year I am the Chair of the European Student Chapter of ASIS&T. My research interests are: My research interests linked to law and new technologies, mostly the responsibility for the automated decision-making technologies. I am doing my research in the areas of data protection and access to public information. Moreover, I have done some work on Uber and Airbnb. I attended... Well. Let me start with what I was supposed to attend: the Ninth Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘International Law and Global Risks: Current Challenges in Theory and Practice’ which was going to take place in April 2020. However, due to too well known to everybody reason – it did not. The organizers took very brave decision to organize an online event instead. It took form of a series of seminars. Each of the panels which were supposed to take place live was transformed into a webinar on Zoom. Thus, the participants still could present their work. Moreover, it was also possible to sign in for selected seminars and participate as an audience. My contribution was: I was one of the presenters. I focused on one particular aspect of my research, which is the question of the right to access information impact on the possibility to receive information on how courts work – and thus, if the judiciary actually is organized accordingly to the rule of law principles and fulfill standards of effective legal protection. I really liked: I was surprised by the fact, that I really liked that form of presentation. Firstly, it was – at least technically – available to everybody willing to participate from all over the world, no matter what is their economic background or what are their possibilities concerning travelling. Secondly, it turned out that I have never before in my life presented my work in front of so big audience (well, invisible – but still). The seminar was attended by more than 140 people and many of them had questions or comments concerning the presentation. Thirdly, it turned out to be really engaging in terms of discussion, as more or less 15 people shared their thoughts on the presentations. Therefore, I had an impression that the format allowed to link two characteristics of events which are rarely to be experienced in the same time: big audience and engaged listeners. In terms of participating in other seminars, they seemed to have been similarly popular and also provoked comments and discussions. My recommendation for other students attending conferences: Of course, the virtual event was different to what I would have experienced if the conference took place in Cambridge. The biggest difference goes down to the possibility of having casual talk with other participants, getting to know them, having chats on topics of common interest. However, it was still very interesting experience and I am grateful to the organizers for all of the hard work they put into preparing everything. As we have no idea what will happen in the coming months my recommendation would be to approach online conferences with an open mind to collect ideas on how actually they can become even more interactive and how to use fully the potential of communication technologies in this area.
I Am: Christine Meschede, Ph.D. student at the Department of Information Science, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf, Germany. My research interests are: Digital Government, Citizen Participation, Open Data, Sustainable Development and Information Science I attended: I attended the 21st Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2020) with this year's theme, "Intelligent Government in the Intelligent Information Society." My contribution at the conference: Together with Tobias Siebenlist, I organized the track "Open Government Data – Maturity and Sustainability." Open Government Data and its usage to create information and knowledge is a viable factor for an intelligent Information Society. It builds a foundation for transparency, participation, and a foundation for the creation of information services for citizens. I really liked: The initially planned conference venue is the Graduate School of Public Administration at Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the conference took place entirely virtually. Discord served as a platform for presentations, posters, and panels, as well as discussions among participants. Most talks were pre-recorded and posted in the various Discord channels. Only a few keynotes and workshops took place synchronously. Like many other virtual conferences taking place at the moment, the virtual dg.o showed that it is possible to connect with others and to share ideas and research without necessarily traveling around the world. Of course, digital formats cannot fully replace social events. Still, the chance for a digital transformation is becoming apparent, particularly in times like these. The Information Science community can act as an enabler of such a change. My recommendation for other students attending conferences: Most conferences, like the dg.o, support Ph.D. students through doctoral colloquiums. These provide a forum for getting feedback on your work and are an excellent opportunity to connect with other experienced researchers.
I was at... ...the 21st Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research
I Am: Dr Bruce Ryan, a researcher in the Centre for Social Informatics in Edinburgh Napier University’s School of Computing. I hold an MSc in ‘information systems development’ from Edinburgh Napier University, and a PhD in organic chemistry and a BSc in chemistry, both from the University of St Andrews. Between my PhD and my MSc (yes, done in that order), I was a production manager in a Scottish educational publisher. My research interests include: computing in hyperlocal democracy, information systems and information literacy within democratic units, library and information science, and information behaviour around self-healthcare. You can read more about my research on my general research blog. My colleague Gemma Webster and I have also recently started a blog about our Information avoidance and diabetes project. I really liked: I don’t want to state my ‘favourite’ presentation of this conference – that would imply that there were other presentations that I didn’t like, which is not true. The standard of presentation (both slides and spoken English), even by presenters who are not native English-speakers, was much better than some I seen given by native-English speakers at other conferences. (I admit that I am not a good presenter in any language.) I also was impressed by the friendliness of the conference organisers. I also really benefitted from this conference being online. As well as the usual opportunities for a few questions at the end of each presentation. Question-sessions used padlets into which participants could type questions and comments. There was also plenty of learning from and engagement with other participants, and this continued quite some time after the traditional question-sessions, mostly via Twitter. For example, I learnt a new German phrase for doing ‘exploratory’ statistics: Fummeln bis es passt (Fiddle till it fits). Please note that this approach is not recommended! I hope I will stay in contact with the participants I met via Twitter. To that end, I’d recommend that future conferences publish (with permission, of course) all participants’ Twitter handles in advance. I attended: all the sessions: my write-up is at https://bruceryan.info. This brings to mind other benefits of the online-only format. Firstly, I was able to do other urgent things in the mornings before the conference sessions started. (I’m also not an early-morning person.) Secondly, I was able to catch up with domestic tasks and feed my nicotine habit during breaks. A few participants said they had time to do some stretches, while others Tweeted their indulgence in extra coffee and cakes. Finally, the online slide-presentation meant people could take clear screenshots for live-tweeting, rather than fuzzy photos from the back of the auditorium. So I’d like all conferences to have an online attendance-option. This would presumably have reduced conference fees because there would be no need to provide all the paraphernalia and refreshments needed for those attending in-person events. This does not mean I’d like conferences to be online-only because there is huge value in meeting people and seeing new places in person. Also, like many others, lockdown has given me massive wanderlust. I would recommend: that all academics with relevant research interests – both students and permanent researchers – try to attend next year’s AECIST conference, even if online-only. I learnt a lot about the new field I’ve just entered, and look forward to more of this. It was also brilliant to engage with other participants, so I’d recommend that all students attending do this too. Get into speaking and arguing (in the ‘discourse’ sense) with others. It can be much easier to overcome shyness via online channels, so do engage! We can all learn from each other, no matter what our statuses might be.
I was at... ...Information Science Trends 2020: Health Information Behavior
We were at... ...iConference 2020: Sustainable Digital Communities
We are: Kaja J. Fietkiewicz (postdoctoral researcher and head of department) and Aylin Ilhan (doctoral student and research associate) at the department of Information Science at the Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf in Germany. Our research interests are: We are both interested in the health information behavior of activity tracking users. We conducted investigations on activity tracking users in the context of data privacy, social media, as well as gamification and enhanced learning. Apart from this common research interest, Kaja’s scientific work includes information law, social media (especially live streaming) and human-computer interaction in general. Aylin is also interested in investigating health information literacy and the impact of the generated health metrics provided by activity tracking technologies. The conference: Each year iSchools organizes the iConference, which is a gathering opened for all information scholars and professionals. This year the conference theme was “Sustainable Digital Communitiesâ€. We were supposed to attend the conference in the Swedish city Boras and present our poster: “How Do Users of Activity Tracking Technologies Perceive the Data Privacy Environment in the EU?“ Unfortunately, due to the global developments, the in-person conference had to be cancelled and the format was changed to virtual event. Also, the conference duration was extended by several days, which made the virtual attendance more comfortable. It was our first virtual conference and we were impressed how well (and quick) the organisers handled this transition. Our presentation: was about how users of activity tracking technologies perceive the data privacy environment in the EU. In our investigation we focused on fitness tracking application as well as a fitness tracking device users from the EU. Both usually collect a lot of personal and health-related data. Most of the fitness tracking users from our sample aware of the GDPR but did not believe that it will improve the reality of data privacy. Even though there appears to be limited belief in the sustainability of the European data privacy environment (in terms of a positive development of consumers’ data privacy), this does not necessarily affect the everyday usage of activity tracking applications and wearables.
 During the conference, there were three poster sessions in total. We had to upload our poster in advance. The poster was then moved to a Padlet page, where at some point other conference attendees could write comments and questions to each poster. The poster sessions took place via Zoom, where the moderators created break-out rooms for each of the poster author(s). The conference attendees could enter the break-out rooms of their choices and have a discussion with the author(s). We were very glad that several interested participants visited our session and that we were able to partake in a fruitful discussion about our common research interests. After the poster session there was still the possibility to leave a comment and/or question under our poster. Indeed, even after the session, we were able to continue an asynchronous discussion about our research with other participants. All in all, it was very interesting and enriching experience. Engagement and Networking Apart from our experience as presenting authors, we also enjoyed the conference in the role of attendees. All keynotes and sessions also took place via Zoom. Furthermore, there was a mobile app made available for the participants - Conference4me - which could be used for communication with other participants. Finally, there was a Zoom room opened during the conference called the “Lounge†were participants were able to meet each other in a social space. Even though we love to travel and socialize with other researches in-person, this was also a good experience and well-organised conference. The topics addressed during the event are of high interest for information scientists, which is why would recommend it to our community. If you are interested, take a look at our poster or the whole publication. Our recommendation: Even if participating in in-person conferences and events has a substantial social impact (social events, ad hoc networking, small talk during coffee breaks or while waiting in line for the buffet), online conferences should not be underestimated. During this time, you get the chance to join a lot of virtual events (for very reasonable registrations costs), and you save money as you don’t have any travel expenses (don’t get us wrong, we LOVE to travel). But we also know that financial resources for business trips are limited. Use this chance! There is so much to learn. From starting how to organize such an online event, how to present your research (online), as well as to get to know all the tools that could also be used in other settings (e.g., classes).
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