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From: Martin Voigt <martin.voigt@ontos.com>
Date: Thu, May 15, 2014 at 9:39 AM
Subject: CfP: Workshop on Geospatial Linked Data (GeoLD 2014), with
SEMANTiCS  2014
To: public-geosemweb@w3.org


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                        Call for Papers
1st International Workshop on Geospatial Linked Data (GeoLD 2014)
  in conjunction with the annual SEMANTiCS conference

1st September 2014, Leipzig, Germany

http://geold.geoknow.eu
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OBJECTIVES
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'Geospatial technology, information, and services are addressing some
of the major priorities of our nations, adding value to productivity,
reducing costs and enabling GDP growth in the process.'
                 Prof. Arup Dasgupta, in Geospatial World, May 2013

In recent years, Semantic Web technologies have strengthened their
position in the areas of data and knowledge management. Standards for
organizing and querying semantic information, such as RDF(S) and
SPARQL are adopted by large academic communities, while corporate
vendors adopt semantic technologies to organize, expose, exchange and
retrieve their datasets as Linked Data. Moreover, a large number of
currently available datasets (both RDF and conventional) contain
geospatial information, which is of high importance in several
application scenarios, e.g., navigation, tourism, or social media.
Examples include DBpedia, Geonames, OSM and its RDF counterpart,
LinkedGeoData. RDF stores have become robust and scalable enough to
support volumes of billions of records (RDF triples) but traditional
geospatial data management systems still significantly outperform them
in efficiency and scalability. On the other hand, GIS systems can
benefit from Linked Data principles (e.g. schema agility,
interoperability). Recently, GeoSPARQL has emerged as a promising
standard from W3C for geospatial RDF that targets the standardized
geospatial RDF data modeling and querying. A great number of tools and
libraries have been developed that allow for handling (storing,
querying, visualizing, etc.) Linked Data, however only a few
approaches started to focus on geospatial RDF data management.
Integrating Semantic Web with geospatial data management requires the
scientific community to address the two following challenges. First,
the definition of proper standards, vocabularies and methodologies for
representing, transforming and mapping geospatial information
according to RDF(S) and SPARQL protocols that also conform to the
principles of established geospatial standards. Second, the
development of technologies for efficient storage, robust indexing,
processing, reasoning, querying and visualization of semantically
organized geospatial data.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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The 1st International Workshop on Geospatial Linked Data welcomes the
submission of original and previously unpublished research papers in
the field of geospatial Linked Data management. Papers may deal with
methods, models, algorithms, case studies, practical experiences and
applications and also work in progress solutions. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:

Interoperability and Integration
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* Geospatial Linked Data and standards (GeoSPARQL, INSPIRE, W3C, OGC)
* Extraction/transformation of geospatial Linked Data from conventional sources
* Integration (schema mapping, interlinking, fusion) techniques for
geospatial RDF data
* Enrichment of Linked Data with geospatial information
* Quality, provenance and evolution of geospatial Linked Data

Big Data Management
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* Distributed solutions for geospatial Linked Data management
(storing, querying, mapping, etc.)
* Algorithms and tools for large scale, scalable geospatial Linked
Data management
* Efficient indexing and querying of geospatial Linked Data
* Geospatial-specific reasoning on RDF data
* Ranking techniques on querying geospatial RDF data
* Advanced querying capabilities on geospatial RDF data

Utilization of Geospatial Linked Data
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* Geospatial Linked Data in social web platforms and applications
* Visualization models and interfaces for browsing, authoring and
querying geospatial Linked Data
* Real world applications/use cases/paradigms using (exposing,
utilizing) geospatial Linked Data
* Evaluation/comparison of tools/libraries/frameworks for geospatial
Linked Data management

GeoLD will provide the opportunity for the community of Linked Data to
focus on the emerging need for  effective and efficient production,
management and utilization of geospatial information within Linked
Data. Emphasis will be given on works describing novel methodologies,
algorithms and tools that advance the current state of the art with
respect to efficiency or effectiveness. We welcome both mature
solutions, as well as ongoing works that present, though, promising
results.

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SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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For providing a forum for sharing novel ideas, GeoLD welcomes a broad
spectrum of contributions, including: Full research papers, position
papers, case studies or evaluations. Authors are invited to submit
original, unpublished research papers related to the aforementioned
topics. We invite regular papers (up to 12 pages) as well as short
papers (up to 6 pages). All submissions are required to be in PDF
format. Long and short paper submissions must be formatted according
to Springer’s LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs).
Papers that exceed the maximum pages or do not follow the LNCS
guidelines will be automatically rejected without a review. All
submissions will be reviewed by members of the international program
committee. Additionally, your submission may be accompanied by a short
video figure or interactive illustration to foster the understanding
of your work. Please submit your manuscript using the EasyChair online
submission system:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=geold2014

Contributions will be selected based upon their quality as evaluated
by 2-3 referees. Accepted papers will be published on the open-access
platform CEUR-WS. At least one author of accepted papers is required
to register at the conference.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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* Paper submission deadline: June 20th, 2014
* Notification of acceptance: July 20th, 2014
* Camera ready due: August 5th, 2014
* Workshop date: September 1st, 2014

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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The Organizing Committee members and the Program Committee members are
mentioned at http://geold.geoknow.eu.






-- 
Andrea Perego, Ph.D.
European Commission DG JRC
Institute for Environment & Sustainability
Unit H06 - Digital Earth & Reference Data
Via E. Fermi, 2749 - TP 262
21027 Ispra VA, Italy

https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/

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The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may
not in any circumstances be regarded as stating an official
position of the European Commission.

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