Workshop on Spatial Data on the Web 2016 at GIScience 2016

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on *Spatial Data on the Web 2016* at GIScience 2016;

http://stko.geog.ucsb.edu/sdw16/

9th International Conference on Geographic Information Science
Montreal, Canada - September 27-30. 2016.

*Workshop Description and Scope*

In their first joint collaboration, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) 
and World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) have established the Spatial Data on 
the Web Working Group. The group aims at investigating and providing 
guidance for the following challenges (1) how can spatial information 
best be integrated with other data on the Web; (2) how can machines and 
people discover that different facts in different datasets relate to the 
same place or feature, especially when this place is expressed or 
represented in different ways and at different levels of granularity; 
(3) and what are existing methods and tools to publish, discover, reuse, 
and meaningfully integrate spatial data. The group is presently 
surveying the landscape of existing theories, methods, tools, and 
standards and is creating a set of best practices for their use.

The GIScience community has a long standing interest and expertise in 
many of the issues outlined above. In fact, work on geospatial 
semantics, geographic information retrieval, data integration, and 
spatial data infrastructures, has been part of the GIScience research 
agenda for many years. Therefore, this workshop aims at bringing 
researchers together to (1) discuss typical challenges in publishing 
spatial data on the Web, (2) identify best practices, (3) point out 
conceptual and theoretical foundations that need to be strengthened or 
established, (4) identify common quality issues for existing data and 
lessons learned, (5) improve and develop existing geo-ontologies for the 
semantic annotation of spatial data, and (6) discuss interface and 
services that will further improve data linking, sharing, and retrieval 
across communities.


*Topics of interest include* (but are not limited to):

  * Semantic Enablement of Spatial Data Infrastructures
  * Quality issues in geo-ontologies and Linked Spatiotemporal Data
  * Experience reports on scalability, discoverability, and so forth
  * Coreference resolution and data linkage
  * New perspectives on semantic interoperability
  * Publishing, retrieving, and accessing sensor data
  * Modeling measurement types
  * Ontologies for space and time
  * Event conceptualization and representation
  * Long term preservation of spatial data
  * Provenance and the publication of scientific workflows
  * Trust and information credibility frameworks
  * Coverages as Linked Data
  * GeoSPARQL in the wild
  * Geo-Data in JSON-LD
  * Geo-data specific user interfaces for Linked Data and beyond
  * RESTful services and Linked Data services
  * Use Cases and Requirements for spatial data on the Web
  * Best practice for publishing spatial data on the Web

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Workshop Format*

The workshop will focus on intensive discussions and experience reports 
to identify common challenges and best practice for publishing spatial 
data on the Web. The workshop will accept two kinds of contributions, 
full research papers (6-8 pages) presenting new work, surveys, and major 
findings in the areas indicated above, as well as statements of interest 
(2-4 pages). While full papers will be selected based on the review 
results adhering to classical scientific quality criteria, the 
statements of interest should raise questions, present visions, and 
point to existing gaps. However, statements of interest will also be 
reviewed to ensure quality and clarity of the presented ideas. The 
presentation time per speaker will be restricted to 10 minutes for 
statements of interest and 15 minutes for full papers. This ensures that 
there is enough time for discussions, interactions, and breakout group 
leading to a typical workshop setting instead of a mini-conference. 
Papers should be formatted according to the Latex or Doc LNCS template.

Submissions shall be made through easychair at 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sdw16

To register for the workshop, please visit 
http://giscience.geog.mcgill.ca/?page_id=28.


*Important Dates*

  * Submission due: 20 May 2016
  * Acceptance Notification: 17 June 2016
  * Camera-ready Copies: 25 June 2016
  * Workshop: 27 September 2016


*Organizers*

  * Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
  * Joshua Lieberman, Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard
    University, USA
  * Kerry Taylor, Australian National University, AU
  * Grant McKenzie, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
  * Simon Cox, CSIRO, AU
  * Ed Parsons, Google, UK


*Programme Committee*

  * Werner Kuhn - University of California, Santa Barbara, US
  * Adila A. Krisnadhi - Wright State University, US
  * Tomi Kauppinen -  Aalto University School of Science, FI
  * Payam Barnaghi - University of Surrey, UK
  * Carsten Keßler - Hunter College, City University of New York, US
  * Oscar Corcho - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ES
  * Sven Schade - European Commission - DG Joint Research Centre, IT
  * Christoph Stasch - 52º North Initiative for Geospatial Open Source
    Software GmbH, DE
  * ...

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Related Activities*

  *      Workshop on GIScience in the Big Data Age 2012
  *      Spatial Data on the Web Working Group Charter
  *      SSN/ Terra Cognita workshop series



Please feel free to contact the organizers for further questions at jano 
@ geog . ucsb. edu.