_2011-04-16

52°North announces a call for participation in and presentations at the "Workshop on GIScience in the Big Data Age 2012" which will be held in conjunction with the seventh International Conference on Geographic Information Science 2012 (GIScience 2012) in Columbus, Ohio, USA. The full day workshop will take place on September 18th, 2012 and will focus on intensive discussions setting a roadmap towards publishing, structuring, retrieving, and consuming Linked Spatiotemporal Data and understanding how GIScience can contribute to the vision of a data-intensive science. 52°North will sponsor a GIBDA data challenge, awarding the winner $250,- for innovativeness and potential impact.

Topics of interest for the Linked Spatiotemporal Data workshop include (but are not limited to):

• Mining Big Data
• Learning geo-ontologies out of massive data
• Abduction-based frameworks and systems
• Mining Location-based Social Networks
• Studying the geo-indicativeness of massive, semi-structured data
• Analogy-based search in Big Data
• Semantic heterogeneity and ontology alignment
• Semantics-enabled geo-statistics
• Retrieving and browsing of Linked Spatiotemporal Data
• Learning Linked Spatiotemporal Data from existing sources
• Spatiotemporal indexing of Linked Data
• Harvesting Linked Data from heterogeneous sources
• Spatial extensions to query languages (e.g., GeoSPARQL)
• Visualizing and browsing through Linked Spatiotemporal Data
• Big Data and Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)
• Spatiotemporal aspects of data quality, trust, and provenance
• Tag and vocabulary recommendations for annotating VGI
• Maintenance of outgoing links
• Application of Linked Spatiotemporal Data
• Linked Data and Sensor Web Enablement (SWE)
• Linked Data and mobile applications
• Linked Data gazetteers and Points Of Interest
• Linked Data in the domain of cultural heritage research
• Integration and Interoperation of Linked Spatiotemporal Data
• Ontologies and vocabularies to support interoperability
• Geo-Ontology Design Patterns
• Identity assumptions and resolution for data fusion and integration
• The role of space and time to structure Linked Data
• Versioning of spatiotemporal data.
• Semantic annotation and Microformats
• Adding contextual information to Linked Data

GIBDA Data Challenge looks for

• innovative analyses of the data
• interactive visualizations
• approaches for cleaning the data up
• pattern and topic mining
• enrichment and interlinking with other datasets (e.g., from the Linked Data cloud)
• insights into GIScience as research field
• adding social roles and aspects

Submission deadline: June 18,  2012

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