Special
Issue of Transactions
in GIS
on
The Geospatial Semantic Web
Call for Papers
The Semantic Web is
currently one of the hottest research areas in information science. In the area
of geographic information science, its geospatial offspring—the Geospatial
Semantic Web—has attracted similar attention by the research community, with
the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science elevating this
topic to one of its Research Priorities in 2002. At the same time, discussions
about Web Ontology languages and geospatial ontologies in support of the
geospatial semantic web have opened new opportunities for intelligent access to
geospatial information. The topic is ripe enough to make an interim
assessment of some of the findings. For this purpose, we are soliciting
original research papers related to methods that will enhance access to
geospatial information through the Geospatial Semantic Web, to be published as
a special issue of Transactions in GIS.
Topics of particular interest include:
·
Geo-spatial ontologies, ontologies that recognize and
distinguish the uniqueness of geospatial information
·
Metadata and standards for content description of geo
spatial information on the WWW
·
New approaches for automatic or semiautomatic
annotations of geo-spatial description in Web documents
·
Theoretical models for applying geo-spatial semantics
onto query-answer, search, data mining, and visualization of Web sources
Submissions that are extended versions of relevant
conference papers would need to include significant extensions beyond the
material already published.
Submissions should be of approximately 6,000 words and follow author
guidelines of Transactions in GIS.
Please, send your submission to fredfonseca@ist.psu.edu
and andrea@udec.cl
Important dates:
• submission of papers to the guest editors: May 31, 2006
• notification of authors about results of reviews: August 30, 2006
• revised versions of tentatively accepted papers: October 15, 2006
• notification of acceptance: December 1, 2006
• publication of special issue: 2007
Guest editors
|
Fred Fonseca |
Andrea Rodriguez |