Terra 2011 - Terra Cognita 2011 Workshop

Terra Cognita 2011 Workshop
http://asio.bbn.com/terracognita2011/
In Conjunction with the 10th International Semantic Web Conference,
(ISWC 2011), http://iswc2011.semanticweb.org/, Bonn, Germany.
This is full day workshop.

WORKSHOP OVERVIEW
The wide availability of technologies such as GPS, map services and social networks, has resulted in the proliferation of geospatial data on the Web. In addition to material produced by professionals (e.g., maps), the public has also been encouraged to make geospatial content, including their geographical location, available online. The volume of such user-generated geospatial content is constantly growing. Similarly, the Linked Open Data cloud includes an increasing number of data sources with geospatial properties.

The geo-referencing of Web resources and users has given rise to various services and applications that exploit it. With the location of users being made available widely, new issues such as those pertaining to security and privacy arise. Likewise, emergency response, context sensitive user applications, and complex GIS tasks all lend themselves toward Geospatial Semantic Web solutions.

Researchers have been quick to realize the importance of these developments and have started working on the relevant research problems, giving rise to new topical research areas such as "Geographic Information Retrieval", "Geospatial (Semantic) Web", "Linked Geospatial Data", "GeoWeb 2.0". Similarly, standardization bodies such as the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) have been developing relevant standards such as the Geography Markup Language (GML) and GeoSPARQL.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from various disciplines, as well as interested parties from industry and government, to advance the frontiers of this exciting research area. Bringing together Semantic Web and geospatial researchers helps encourage the use of semantics in geospatial applications and the use of spatial elements in semantic research and applications thereby advancing the Geospatal Web.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
Original, high-quality work related (but not limited) to one of the following research topics is welcome. Submissions must not be published nor must they be submitted for publication elsewhere.

* Data models and languages for the Geospatial Web
* Systems and architectures for the Geospatial Web
* Linked geospatial data
* Ontologies and rules in the Geospatial Web
* Uncertainty in the Geospatial Web
* User interface technologies for the Geospatial Web
* Geospatial Web and mobile data management
* Security and privacy issues in the Geospatial Web
* Geospatial Web applications
* User-generated geospatial content
* OGC and W3C technologies and standards in the Geospatial Web

PAPER SUBMISSION
Submissions will be handled using the EasyChair system (https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=...). Papers must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) (Information for LNCS Authors, http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-...) Formatted papers must be approximately 10 pages (no longer than 13) and must represent new work. All submissions will be reviewed by three members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be published in a special volume of the CEUR workshop proceedings (http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/...). At least one author must register to present an accepted paper.