Information pages for the SIGIR 2003 workshops are linked below. All workshops are full-day events and will be held on August 1 from 9:00 to 17:00.

The workshops will not be held at the Hilton, where the main conference sessions will be held. Instead, they will be held at the Bahen Centre of Information Technology at the University of Toronto (map and directions).

• Semantic Web
  Organizers: Ying Ding, Keith van Rijsbergen, Iadh Ounis and Joemon Jose.
  Location: Bahen Centre, Room 1200
  
• Mathematical/Formal Methods in IR
  Organizers: Sandor Dominich, Mounia Lalmas and Keith van Rijsbergen.
  Location: Bahen Centre, Room 2130
  
• Text Analysis and Search for Bioinformatics
  Organizers: Eric Brown, William Hersh and Alfonso Valencia.
  Location: Bahen Centre, Room 1240
  
• Distributed Information Retrieval
  Organizers: Jamie Callan, Fabio Crestani and Mark Sanderson.
  Location: Bahen Centre, Room 1230
  
• Music Information Retrieval
  Organizers: J. Stephen Downie.
  Location: Bahen Centre, Room 1210
  
• Multimedia Information Retrieval
  Organizers: R. Manmatha and Stefan Rueger.
  Location: Bahen Centre, Room 2145
  

The following workshops are open to accepted participants ONLY. Please see their calls for participation for details.

• Implicit Measures of User Interests and Preferences
  Organizers: Krishna Bharat, Susan Dumais, Thorsten Joachims and Andreas Weigend.
  Location: Bahen Centre, Room 2135
  
• Defining Evaluation Methodologies for Terabyte-Scale Collections
  Organizers: Ian Soboroff, Ellen Voorhees and Nick Craswell.
  Location: Bahen Centre, Room 2139