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50 years of IR & web conferences — enlarged map

Every recovered edition-year of SIGIR, SIGIR-AP, WSDM, CIKM and The Web Conference (WWW), 1992–2026, plotted at its host city. A presentation revision of the prior report “50 Years of SIGIR, SIGIR-AP, WSDM, CIKM & The Web Conference” — same evidence, one much larger map.

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CIKM’s first thirteen editions, 1992–2004, all ran in the USA — most inside the Washington–Baltimore corridor, spread apart on the map — before Bremen 2005 took it abroad — a.osmarks.net
The Web Conference’s next mapped stop is Dubai, April 13–17, 2026 — its first edition in this set since Montreal 2016 — wikicfp.com
SIGIR-AP, the newest series here, has one edition with a recovered host city: Tokyo, December 9–12, 2024 — negara.info
Several 2025–2026 editions have no host city listed on their cited pages yet — WSDM 2026 among them — so they sit in the strip beneath the map instead of at an invented coordinate — dblp.uni-trier.de

Every recovered edition-year

YearSeriesHost cityCountryDatesSource
Method: 60 normalized edition-year rows for five conference series (SIGIR, SIGIR-AP, WSDM, CIKM, The Web Conference), 1992–2026, each carrying host city and country, event dates and a source URL; one dot is one edition, and approximate city-centre coordinates were added for plotting only. Editions whose source lists no host city appear in the strip beneath the map. Source-mention counts appear in dot tooltips only. Narrative context is drawn from the prior published report; its own plotted rows are not reused here.
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