Event: Colocated at Solid Symposium 2025
Date: 24 April 2025, 10:00 – 13:00
Venue: Leiden University, Faculty of Science, Gorlaeus Building, Einsteinweg 55, 2333 CC Leiden, Netherlands (Room HUY 2.26)
The ESPRESSO team invites everyone, from seasoned Information Retrieval (IR) practitioners to interested parties from closely or distantly related disciplines, to join our workshop at SoSy 2025.
This is an opportunity for practitioners from across the globe to meet face-to-face and learn how each other’s work is contributing to the challenges that matter in our communities.
Increasingly, the international community of Solid practitioners is looking at how we can query pods, and how we can query and search pods while taking into account Solid’s varying and dynamic access permissions. We expect that our workshop will be of particular interest to the wider Solid community, as well as to the wider IR community, including those working with more traditional centralized architectures.
This will be a hands-on session: if you have a project ready to demonstrate, demo it; if you have code you’re still working on, talk us through it; if you have a high-level design, walk us through it. Tell us about the people your project is helping, has helped, or will help; and how.
Schedule
(subject to change)
10:00 – 10:15: Introduction and Welcome from the ESPRESSO Team
Dr Helen Oliver (organizer): Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Knowledge Lab, Birkbeck, University of London (contact)
Dr Mohammad Bahrani (organizer): Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Web and Internet Science Group, University of Southampton (contact)
Dr Mohamed Ragab (tbc): Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Web and Internet Science Group, University of Southampton
Prof Thanassis Tiropanis (tbc): Professor, Web and Internet Science Group, University of Southampton
10:15 – 10:45: Keynote Speakers
10:15 – 10:25: Prof Jon Crowcroft (online), Marconi Professor of Communications Systems, University of Cambridge
10:25 – 10:35: Mr Terry Lee (online), Technical Support Engineer, Dataswyft
10:35 – 10:45: Q&A
10:45 – 11:00: ESPRESSO’s Greatest Hits
11:00 – 12:10: Invited Talks and Q&A
Dr Esther De Loof, Business Developer & Operations Director SolidLab; IDLab, imec research group at Ghent University
Dr Beatriz Estevez, Postdoctoral Researcher in the KNoWS group at Ghent University – imec
Mr Jackson Morgan (online), CEO, SetMeld
Dr Ruben Taelman, Postdoctoral Researcher in Decentralized Web Querying, IDLab, Ghent University
Mr Jesse Wright, Doctoral Student, EWADA Project, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
Dr Rui Zhao, Postdoctoral Researcher, EWADA Project, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
(Not necessarily in that order)
12:00 – 12:10: Q&A
12:10 – 12:55: Breakout Sessions
12:10 – 12:40: subgroup discussions
12:40 – 12:55: whole group discussion