The following two workshops will be held on 28 August 2009, the day after SPIRE:

• Workshop on task-based information access (the workshop webpage)
  • Organized and sponsored by Swedish Institute of Computer Science
• The Fourth Workshop on Compression, Text, and Algorithms (the workshop webpage)
  • Organized and sponsored by Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki

Participation to the workshops is free. The workshop participants will nevertheless be served lunch and refreshments. Free attendance is made possible by generous support from the respective sponsors.