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SIGIR Viability Review Chair: Jamie Callan (US) Vice-Chair: Fabrizio Sebastiani (EU) Secretary: David Lewis (US) Treasurer: Justin Zobel (AU) Regional Rep: Noriko Kando (AS)

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Page 1: SIGIR Viability Review Chair: Jamie Callan(US) Vice-Chair: Fabrizio Sebastiani(EU) Secretary:David Lewis(US) Treasurer:Justin Zobel(AU) Regional Rep:Noriko

SIGIR Viability Review

Chair: Jamie Callan(US)

Vice-Chair: Fabrizio Sebastiani (EU)Secretary: David Lewis (US)Treasurer: Justin Zobel (AU)

Regional Rep: Noriko Kando (AS)

Page 2: SIGIR Viability Review Chair: Jamie Callan(US) Vice-Chair: Fabrizio Sebastiani(EU) Secretary:David Lewis(US) Treasurer:Justin Zobel(AU) Regional Rep:Noriko

Financial Assessment Target fund balance: $430-440K

Significantly above ACM required balance We generally run a break-even budget

We’re not afraid to lose money occasionally ($38K last year)

We should have a nice surplus this year Conferences vary in profitability, but none lose money

Budgeted to break-even at 75% of normal attendance

Membership costs being reduced significantly this year Switching “Special Issue” of SIGIR Forum from paper

to DVD

Page 3: SIGIR Viability Review Chair: Jamie Callan(US) Vice-Chair: Fabrizio Sebastiani(EU) Secretary:David Lewis(US) Treasurer:Justin Zobel(AU) Regional Rep:Noriko

Membership

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Basic Membership

SIGIR Proceedings Pkg

DiSC Pkg

61% NA23% EU13% AS 2% ANZ 1% SA(FY 2004)

2007 isa partial

year

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* Admin error

Page 4: SIGIR Viability Review Chair: Jamie Callan(US) Vice-Chair: Fabrizio Sebastiani(EU) Secretary:David Lewis(US) Treasurer:Justin Zobel(AU) Regional Rep:Noriko

Volunteer Development:A Culture of Service SIGIR EC

Early mid-career members recruited to run for some positions

International members aggressively recruited to run SIGIR conference

Junior members recruited for Posters Program Committee, occasionally Papers Program committee, Information Director, Forum editorships, SIGIR-List

Many opportunities for senior members to serve 33-50% annual turnover encouraged at Senior level of

SIGIR Program Committee Regional Program Chairs to SIGIR conference

Americas, Europe, Asia/Australia/New Zealand

Page 5: SIGIR Viability Review Chair: Jamie Callan(US) Vice-Chair: Fabrizio Sebastiani(EU) Secretary:David Lewis(US) Treasurer:Justin Zobel(AU) Regional Rep:Noriko

ConferencesSIGIR CIKM JCDL

Co-sponsors SIGWEB SIGWEB, IEEE

Acceptance rate ~ 19% ~ 18% ~ 23%

Quality #1 IR #2 IR, #4? DB

#1 DL

Growing Yes Yes No

Profits Yes Small Breakeven

Accessible to jr members

Yes Yes ?

Administration Rotating

Insular Slow rotation

Management Direct Indirect Indirect

Page 6: SIGIR Viability Review Chair: Jamie Callan(US) Vice-Chair: Fabrizio Sebastiani(EU) Secretary:David Lewis(US) Treasurer:Justin Zobel(AU) Regional Rep:Noriko

Member Service Summary SIGIR Forum newsletter (paper, online) Optional JCDL+CIKM Proceedings Package Optional DiSC Package SIG-IRList electronic newsletter Access to SIGIR material in the Digital Library A Digital Preservation effort for early IR material At SIGIR conference

Best Paper, Best Student Paper, and triennial Salton awards

Student travel awards Doctoral consortium Optional mentoring for new authors Automatic 1-year ACM SIGIR registration of non-

members At JCDL conference

Co-sponsorship of Vannevar Bush best paper award

Page 7: SIGIR Viability Review Chair: Jamie Callan(US) Vice-Chair: Fabrizio Sebastiani(EU) Secretary:David Lewis(US) Treasurer:Justin Zobel(AU) Regional Rep:Noriko

What We’re Working On We’re in the middle of revising the bylaws

To match how we actually operate To increase EC terms from 2 years to 3 years

The SIGIR conference rotation is transitioning from two-region (NA, EU) to three-region (+AS)

Singapore in 2008 This EC retires on June 30

We have 3 good candidates for each elected position The slate has international and gender diversity