ECIR 2020 https://ecir2020.org/ was one of the many conferences affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Conference Chairs decided to keep the initially planned dates (April 14-17, 2020) and move to a fully online event. In this report, we describe the experience of organizing the ECIR 2020 Workshops in this scenario from two perspectives: the workshop organizers and the workshop participants. We provide a report on the organizational aspect of these events and the consequences for participants. Covering the scientific dimension of each workshop is outside the scope of this article.
@article{arxiv.2005.06748,
title = {ECIR 2020 Workshops: Assessing the Impact of Going Online},
author = {Sérgio Nunes and Suzanne Little and Sumit Bhatia and Ludovico Boratto and Guillaume Cabanac and Ricardo Campos and Francisco M. Couto and Stefano Faralli and Ingo Frommholz and Adam Jatowt and Alípio Jorge and Mirko Marras and Philipp Mayr and Giovanni Stilo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.06748},
year = {2020}
}