===================================================================== 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 ===================================================================== __________ OBJECTIVES ͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞ '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 OGC for geospatial RDF that targets 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. __________________ TOPICS OF INTEREST ͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞ 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 ͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞ * 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 ͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞ * 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 ͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞ * 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. __________________________ SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞ 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. _______________ IMPORTANT DATES ͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞ * Paper submission deadline: July 10th, 2014 * Notification of acceptance: July 20th, 2014 * Camera ready due: August 5th, 2014 * Workshop date: September 1st, 2014 __________________________________________ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE ͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞͞ The Organizing Committee members and the Program Committee members are mentioned at http://geold.geoknow.eu. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. 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