[OSM-Science] GeoCultGIS workshop at AGILE 2019 - Final Call for Papers and Extended Deadline

[Yair Grinberger]

Dear All,

Following the previous announcement, below you may find the FINAL CALL for short papers for the Agile 2019 GeoCultGIS workshop. 

Please note that the deadline has been extended to May 13th. The authors of selected papers will be invited to submit a full paper to a special issue of Transactions in GIS which we organize.

For more details, see the workshop's webpage: http://www.cs.nuim.ie/~pmooney/GeoCultGIS/.

Best regards,
GeoCultGIS organizing team - Alex Zipf, Michael Schultz, Peter Mooney, Tessio Novack, and Yair Grinberger

GeoCultGIS, 17th June 2019, Limassol, Cyprus
CALL FOR PAPERS:

WORKSHOP TOPICS
While some geo-datasets offer global coverage and spatial methods attempt to be generic, applications are considerably of local nature. Furthermore, local geographic and social-cultural idiosyncrasies lead to heterogeneity in data production practices and interpretation of abstract geographical concepts. These are limiting factors for the transferability of methods and theoretical approaches. While long acknowledged, these challenges are still pending solutions and questions regarding conceptual, formal, and operational approaches for considering the cultural and geographical aspects of geo-information remain open.

By bringing together researchers dealing with social-cultural and geographical aspects related to the production, usage and analysis of geo-information, the GeoCultGIS full-day workshop offers an opportunity for an inclusive and open discussion on the general conceptual, methodological, and empirical approaches for tackling such issues. This workshop will promote and advance the exchange of information and knowledge on the matter through keynote talks, short paper presentations and open discussion rounds.

We encourage participants to submit conceptual, methodological, or empirical short papers (up to 3000 words manuscripts) discussing the cultural and geographical aspects of geo-information, in particular, but not limited to, subjects such as:
- The effects of data production practices and of geographical peculiarities on data quality and representations, and approaches for treating related biases;
- Novel and integrative (i.e. multi-perspective) representations of geographical realities and objects;
- Developments and studies considering contextual dependencies in the perception and usage of geographical concepts and categories (e.g. land use nomenclatures, tagging of geo-objects, place boundaries);
- The effects of geographical and cultural diversities on the transferability and application of data processing methods, and context-sensitive methodological developments;
- GIScience research front and agendas in attending to geo-cultural dependencies.
 
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
The papers should be submitted by May 13th, 2019, directly via e-mail, to Dr. Tessio Novack: novack at uni-heidelberg.de. 

Authors are requested to follow the formatting guidelines for short paper submissions on the AGILE 2019 call for papers page and use the Word .doc template (https://agile-online.org/images/conference_2019/documents/AGILE_2019_v1c_PaperAndPoster_Word_HarvardStyle_nonXML_1.doc) or the Word .docx template (https://agile-online.org/images/conference_2019/documents/AGILE_2019_v1b_PaperAndPoster_Word_HarvardStyle_3.docx). 

REGISTRATION
All participants are required to register to the workshop via the AGILE 2019 registration system (https://agile-online.org/conference-2019/home-2019) and pay the participation fee, as defined by AGILE (https://agile-online.org/conference-2019/fees-2019)