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[Saiph Savage]

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Workshop on Geographic Information Science Observatories (GIO 2014)
** CALL FOR PAPERS **

at GIScience 2014; 8th International Conference on Geographic
Information Science

Vienna, Austria - September, 23-26.
Workshop website: http://stko.geog.ucsb.edu/gio2014/

Abstract

Over 20 years since Geographic Information Science was established as a
bona fide scientific field of inquiry and with the subsequent explosion
of spatial data sources from satellites to sensors and mobile devices,
the geographic information universe is rapidly expanding. However, in
many respects the nature and structure of this information universe is
poorly understood. Traditionally, GIScience research has focused on the
relationships between theoretical information models and the geographic
phenomena that they are representing. In the Workshop on Geographic
Information Observatories 2014 (GIO2014) we would like to explore the
idea of expanding GIScience research to empirically examine the
structure of the geographic information universe itself. This will
ideally support better understanding of this universe and give us new
insights into how this information can be utilized. This includes both
observational and experimental approaches to science. The GIO2014
workshop will focus on intensive discussions setting a roadmap towards
future work on geographic information observatories. We call for two
kinds of contributions, full research papers presenting new work in the
indicated areas, as well as statements of interest.

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

    Describing the ecosystem (universe) of geographic information now and
in the future.
    Social network analysis of geographic information communities:
communities identification, expertise, and authority discovery.
    Information Retrieval and the role of geospatial science.
    Relationships between crowdsourced geographic data and data from
authoritative infrastructures; how to integrate data across these different
types of sources
    Analysis of applicability of geographic laws (e.g., Tobler's law) to
learn from Big Data.
    Discovery of laws for the information universe.
    Discovery of geographic information and knowledge from unstructured
data (e.g., social media).
    Measuring prediction success of GIScience methods for real-world
situations.
    Finding correlations / causal relationships between communities /
demographic groups of data producers and the types/quality/value of
geographic data they generate.
    Searching over geographic data networks that are highly heterogeneous
and distributed.
    Automatic matching of geographic data to fit analysis tasks.
    Studying the relationships between how technologies are used and the
kinds of geographic information they produce.
    Link discovery from Big Data.
    Analysis and representation of change and events in observed
information feeds.
    The dispersion of geographic information (in online communities).
    Information Value Theory
    Cyber-infrastructure needs for geographic information observatories.
    Emerging semantics

Workshop format
The workshop will focus on intensive discussions setting a roadmap
towards future work on geographic information observatories. The
workshop will accept two kinds of contributions, full research papers
presenting new work in the indicated areas, as well as statements of
interest. While the research 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 the open 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 5 minutes for
statements of interest and 10 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.

Submissions shall be made through easychair at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gio2014 by  6 June 2014.

To register for the workshop, please visit
http://www.giscience.org/registration.html.

Important Dates

Submission due: 6 June 2014
Acceptance Notification: 27 June 2014
Camera-ready Copies: 3 July 2014
Workshop: 23 September 2014

Organizers

    Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
    Ben Adams, The University of Auckland, NZ
    Grant McKenzie, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
    Tomi Kauppinen, Aalto University School of Science in Finland, FIN

Programme Committee

    Justin Cranshaw, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
    Sara Fabrikant, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    Mark Gahegan, University of Auckland, New Zealand
    Mike Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
    Mark Graham, University of Oxford, UK
    Brent Hecht, University of Minnesota, USA
    Peter Kiefer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
    Peter Mooney, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland
    Ross Purves, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    Simon Scheider, University of Muenster, Germany
    Andre Skupin, San Diego State University, USA
    …





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