Report on the Workshop on Barriers to Interactive IR Resources Re-use (BIIRRR 2018)

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Third Workshop on Building towards Information Interaction and Retrieval Resources Re-use (BIIRRR 2022)

“…• Develop recommendations for research design documentation We argue in our manifesto that research designs are the first step in documenting research resources -research data and research infrastructure are even more complicated and will be worked on in later editions. A survey conducted as part of the BIIRRR 2018 workshop [4] indicated that the lack of documentation was a major limiting factor, but also that how to appropriately document was something researchers struggled with. A 2019 review of the IIX and CHIIR experimental papers [13] showed common characteristics of research designs that could be used to develop recommendations on how to document in a more structured way.…”

“…At the 2018 and 2019 BIIRRR workshops [3,4], we identified a number of focus areas essential to resource re-use in interactive information retrieval. We distilled these into a manifesto [8] published at CHIIR 2021, which highlighted the potential and challenges of research documentation and archiving for future use.…”

“…One major barrier to re-use, that our initial survey revealed [4], was missing documentation or documentation lacking in sufficient detail to enable (the decision what to) re-use. This is where the heterogeneity of approaches creates additional challenges.…”

From XML Retrieval to Semantic Search and Beyond

“…However, despite the many great plans, no concrete proposal was made for a 2018 track at CLEF, mostly due to staffing issues, as the same group of organizers was coordinating most of the work continuously for over a decade. The work on promoting and facilitating interactive IR systems and experiments does however continue with full force at the Barriers to Interactive IR Resources Re-use (BIIRRR) workshops held at the Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR) in 2018 (Bogers et al 2018) and 2019 (Bogers et al 2019).…”