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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)
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
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
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
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
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
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