It is anticipated, that current work in progress is presented and discussed during a Dagstuhl Seminar.

Publishing an elaborated work in progress paper, which describes current research, in the Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings has several advantages, some of which are named in the following:

Advantages for the Researchers / Authors

• Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings can be cited.
  This is an advantage not only compared to the (obsolete) Dagstuhl Reports, but also to any common web publication.
• Publication
  An article in Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings counts as a publication (although not necessarily a peer reviewed one)
• Some quality is guaranteed.
  Compared to a Technical Report or home page publication, the name Dagstuhl implies that your publication is at a certain level of quality.
• Proceedings context
  Each article is embedded in the context of the Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, like conference proceedings or journal publications. 
• Possibility: organizers = editors
  For organizers, Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings open up a possibility to act as editors.
• No costs for the author.

Advantages for Researchers / Readers (and Therefore also for the Authors)

• Broad readership
  Neither for the authors nor for the readers will there be any special costs. The Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings will be online and open access, so anyone interested can easily access them. Your article shall reach much more readers than a print version.
• Up-to-dateness
  Compared to conference or journal publications, which present results that have been obtained several months or even more than a year ago, Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings will present ongoing work. The proceedings could become a "hot-topic-collection".

Advantages for Schloss Dagstuhl

• In addition to our wish to support research, the Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings may act as a tool to share Dagstuhl results with the world and to bring some efficiency statement for evaluation.