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SIGIR viability review

Review of SIGIR's financial summary in March 2011, focusing on the balance growth, conference sponsorship, student support, and membership challenges. Strategies include enhancing conferences, student development, and membership engagement for sustained growth and impact.

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SIGIR viability review

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  1. SIGIR viability review March, 2011

  2. Financial summary • 2010 fund balance growing consistently • Professional membership steady or dropping • Conference sponsorship • 4 conferences in 2010 • WSDM, JDCL, SIGIR, and CIKM • Set for 2011, working on 2012 and 2013 • Student support • Close to “at cost” conference registrations • Scholarships

  3. SIGIR member benefits • SIGIR Forum, semi-annual, print and on-line • Third “issue” of Forum is SIGIR proceedings • Reduced registration rates • Access to sponsored conferences via DL • SIGIR, WSDM, JCDL, CIKM • SIGIR-announce and SIG-IR mailing lists • Awards • Vannevar Bush at JDCL • Salton at SIGIR • Best student and Best papers at SIGIR • Student travel awards to SIGIR

  4. Goal: successful conferences • SIGIR and other conferences doing well, but… • Attendance remains strong and steady • Concern about registration costs • Topping US$1,000 may create barrier to entry • Exploring options with chairs and community • Acceptance rates becoming too low • At 15% many excellent papers being rejected • Trying two-tier full-paper acceptance for SIGIR’11 • Challenges with globalization of conferences • Often no “regional” conference for two years • Exploring regional SIGIRs • CIKM, WSDM, and SIGIR all in Asia in 2010-11 • Dialogue with conferences and representation on boards

  5. Goal: development for students • Successful support for students • Travel support to SIGIR conference • Roughly $60K for 2010 • Expect greater use of fund for 2011 (Beijing) • Doctoral consortium at SIGIR • Mentoring before, at, and after SIGIR • 11 students in 2010 (typically with travel support) • Best student paper award at SIGIR • Comes with $1,000 award split among authors • If “best paper” authored by student, this is dropped • Concern: SIGIR cost getting high for students

  6. Goal: membership • Membership falling in last two years • Professional from 859 in 2007 to 766 in 2010 (-10%) • Retention after first year remains about 75% • Did not provide automatic memberships from conferences for 2009 and 2010 • Reinstating that program for 2011 • Most of these are short-term members • Does result in higher 1-year retention (50%, not 25%) • Some loss may be due to economy • Looking for ways to increase perceived “value” of membership

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