Terra Cognita 2014 - 6th International Workshop on the Foundations, Technologies and Applications of the Geospatial Web

The wide availability of technologies such as GPS, map services and social networks, has resulted in the proliferation of geospatial data on the Web. Similarly, the amount of geospatial data extracted from the Web and published as Linked Data is increasing. Together with the dissemination of Web-enabled mobile devices these continually growing data have given rise to a number of innovative services and applications. With the location of users being made available widely, new issues such as those pertaining to security and privacy arise. Emergency response, context sensitive user applications, and complex GIS tasks all lend themselves toward solutions that combine both the Geospatial Web and the Semantic Web. The workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners from various disciplines, as well as interested parties from industry and government, to advance the frontiers of this emerging 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. The field continues to gain popularity, resulting in a need for a forum to discuss relevant issues.
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Data models and languages for the Geospatial Web
Systems and architectures for the Geospatial Web
Geographic information retrieval
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
Open geospatial data
Big geospatial data
OGC and W3C technologies and standards in the Geospatial Web
Submissions
We invite two kinds of submissions:
Research papers. These should not exceed 12 pages in length.
Demos. Deployed technologies are important if the Geospatial Web is to be realized. We therefore strongly encourage the submission of demos, and the presentation of demos related to research papers (a separate demo paper does not need to be submitted in this case, but the research paper should clearly discuss the demo to be presented). Demo papers should not exceed 5 pages in length.
Submissions should be formatted according to the Lecture Notes in Compute Science guidelines for proceedings available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-....
Papers should be submitted in PDF format using the Easy chair system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=terra2....
At least one author of each accepted paper or demo must register for the workshop. Information about registration will appear soon on the ISWC 2014 Web page: http://iswc2014.semanticweb.org/.