Call for Papers THE GEOSPATIAL WEB - How Geo-Browsers, Social Software and the Web 2.0 are Shaping the Network Society
You are cordially invited to submit chapters for an upcoming book on the Geospatial Web, published by Springer London in the Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing Series. By integrating cartographic data with geo-tagged knowledge repositories, the emerging Geospatial Web will revolutionize the production, distribution and consumption of media products. This edited volume will bring together high quality contributions on the technical foundations of the Geospatial Web, present information services and collaborative environments built on top of geo-browsers such as Google Earth and NASA World Wind, and investigate the economic and societal impacts of such knowledge-intensive applications. A particular focus of the book is the integration of geospatial and semantic technology, for example to extract geospatial context from unstructured textual resources.
*** IMPORTANT DATES
Oct 10, 2006: Paper Submission Deadline Nov 01, 2006: Notification of Acceptance Dec 01, 2006: Camera-ready Copy of Final Chapters Due May 31, 2007: Publication
*** SCOPE
The Geospatial Web will have a profound impact on managing knowledge and structuring workflows within and across organizations, and on the interaction between those organizations and their target audience. Geo-browsers are an ideal platform to integrate (i) cartographic data such as topographic maps and street directories, (ii) geo-tagged knowledge repositories aggregated from public online sources or corporate Intranets, and (iii) environmental indicators such as emission levels, ozone concentrations, and biodiversity density. This edited volume emphasizes the role of contextual knowledge in shaping the emerging network society. It investigates the impact of geospatial technology on content production environments, with an emphasis on hybrid approaches that combine the advantages of individual and collaborative content production e.g. integrating edited material from traditional encyclopedias and news media with evolving content from Wiki applications. Such collaborative environments can be enriched by automated aggregators for Web content and news feeds in RSS, RDF, or Atom formats. Annotating content from these heterogeneous sources creates complex knowledge repositories spanning multiple dimensions (space, time, semantics, etc.). The size and complexity of these repositories calls for new interface metaphors to increase their accessibility and transparency. Possible topics for submissions include but are not limited to:
- State-of-the-art and emerging trends of geo-browsing platforms - Knowledge acquisition and management in a geospatial context - Knowledge relationship discovery and management; e.g. matching geospatial relationships with semantic or temporal relationships - Knowledge-intensive, location-based services - Marketing of products and services via the Geospatial Web - Annotation and ontology services as enablers of the Geospatial Web - Natural language processing to extract geospatial context - System architectures of dynamic, distributed geospatial applications - Platform connectivity (mash-ups, add-ons, XML/RDF exchange formats) - Collaborative authoring via geo-browsers (Web 2.0 extensions, social software) - Geospatial environments for knowledge workers - Tracking the behavior of users navigating the Geospatial Web - Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research on geospatial interfaces - Case studies of geospatial applications in various domains o Mapping of environmental indicators (sustainability) o Geo-temporal news browsers (media industry) o JIT information retrieval agents for destinations (tourism) o Emergency response simulations (crisis & disaster management) - Societal implications (global awareness and identity, impact of virtual communities)
*** SUBMISSION
Only electronic submissions will be accepted in either MS Word or RTF format (word limits excl. references: full papers 4000-5000 words; short papers: 1500-2000 words). Authors should identify the type of submission: Completed Research, Research-In-Progress, Case Study. Submissions must be based on the MS Word template at http://geoweb.know-center.at/, and neither be published previously nor under consideration for publication elsewhere.
*** EDITORS
Prof Arno Scharl (scharl@know-center.at) Prof Klaus Tochtermann (ktochter@know-center.at)
Know-Center and Graz University of Technology, Knowledge Management Institute, Inffeldgasse 21a, A-8010 Graz, Austria www.know-center.at | kmi.tugraz.at | www.ecoresearch.net
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Arno Scharl