The workshop ran for 2.5 days and was organised by Marion Crehange, Isabelle Blanchard, Brigitte Simonnot, and Malika Smail (all at the Loria lab - see local arrangements for contacts).

Mail Marion.Crehange@loria.fr

Mail steve@psy.gla.ac.uk,mark@dcs.gla.ac.uk

Workshop format suggestions

As I mentioned at the end of the Dagstuhl workshop, Mark Dunlop and I would like to invite you to propose interactive activities that you could organise at the Nancy MIRA workshop.

Rather than simply give a talk as if at a conference, it would be useful if people came up with other activities that were more interactive. These might be tutorials on some technique you think important for MIRA, an organised discussion resulting in a report you would write, or something else. For instance, those who would like to see MIRA leading to a design for a multimedia test collection might like to consider what workshop activity would be a good next step for this aspect of MIRA. The sooner we get proposals, the more chance there is of fitting them into the timetable of the Nancy workshop. We ourselves are planning activities around some IR software that can be demonstrated and evaluated during the workshop: and that will obviously take up considerable time. We hope to hear from you, and suggestions that cannot be fitted into the Nancy workshop might perhaps be used at the following workshop. We will probably repeat this invitation, perhaps with more focus as plans emerge.

Steve Draper