LSTD 2011 - LSTD-Issue 2011 : Special Issue on Linked Spatiotemporal Data and Geo-Ontologies

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Deadline: April 15, 2011 | Date: September 20, 2011

Venue/Country: Call for Papers, Afghanistan

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Special Issue on Linked Spatiotemporal Data and Geo-Ontologies

Scope

Whilst the Web has changed with the advent of the Social Web from mostly

authoritative towards increasing amounts of user generated content, it

is essentially still about linked documents. These documents provide

structure and context for the described data and easy their

interpretation. In contrast, the upcoming Data Web is about linking

data, not documents. Such data sets are not bound to a specific document

but can be easily combined and used outside of the original context.

With a growth rate of millions of new facts encoded as RDF-triples per

month, the Linked Data cloud allows users to answer complex queries

spanning multiple sources. Due to the uncoupling of data from its

original creation context, semantic interoperability, identity

resolution, and ontologies are central methodologies to ensure

consistency and meaningful results. Space and time are fundamental

ordering relations to structure such data and provide an implicit

context for their interpretation. Prominent geo-related Linked Data hubs

include Geonames.org as well as the Linked Geo Data project which

provides a RDF serialization of Open Street Map. Furthermore, myriad

other Linked Data sources contain location-based references. This

special issue is an open-call follow up to the Linked Spatiotemporal

Data 2010 workshop held in conjunction with the 6th International

Conference on Geographic Information Science GIScience 2010. The issue

aims at defining the data, knowledge representations, reasoning

methodologies, and additional tools needed to link locations seamlessly

into the Web of Linked Data. Subsequently, with the advent of Linked

Locations in Linked Data, the gap between the Semantic Web and the Geo

Web will begin to narrow.

List of Relevant Topics

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

# Application of Linked Spatiotemporal Data

* Linked Data and the Sensor Web Enablement

* Linked Data and mobile applications

* Linked Data gazetteers and points of interest

* Linked Data in the domain of cultural heritage research

# Retrieving and Browsing of Linked Spatiotemporal Data

* Mining Linked Spatiotemporal Data from existing sources

* Spatiotemporal indexing of Linked Data

* Harvesting Linked Data from heterogeneous sources

* Spatial extensions to query languages such as SPARQL (e.g.,

GeoSPARQL)

* Visualizing and browsing through the Linked Spatiotemporal Data cloud

# Integration and Interoperation of Linked Spatiotemporal Data

* Ontologies and vocabularies to support interoperability

* Identity assumptions and resolution for data fusion and

integration

* The role of space and time to structure Linked Data

* Versioning of spatio-temporal data

* Semantic annotation and microformats

* Adding contextual information to Linked Data

# Linked Data and Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)

* Spatiotemporal Aspects of Data Quality, Trust, and Provenance in

Linked Data

* Tag and Vocabulary recommendations for annotating VGI

* Maintenance of links

Submissions

The special issue on Linked Spatiotemporal Data and Geo-Ontologies calls

for original high-quality research on any of the above mentioned topics.

Extended versions of manuscripts published in conferences and workshops

are welcome as long as the previous publications are clearly

acknowledged and the new submission introduces substantial revisions and

updates. Authors are requested to follow the author guidelines, submit

online via mstracker, and include the name of the call within the

submission letter. While there is no official page limit, we request

manuscripts between 14-22 pages in length. All manuscripts will be

reviewed based on the SWJ open and transparent review policy and will be

made available during online the review process.

Important Dates

Manuscript submission due: 18. April 2011

Acceptance notification: 13. June 2011

Camera-ready copies: 30. June 2011

Issue publication: Fall 2011

Editors

* Krzysztof Janowicz, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

* Todd Pehle, Orbis Technologies, USA

* Glen Hart, Ordnance Survey, UK

* Patrick Maué, University of Muenster, Germany

Guest Editorial Board

(to be updated)

* Benjamin Adams, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

* Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany

* Luis M. Vilches Blázquez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

* Boyan Brodaric, Geological Survey of Canada, Canada

* Raúl García Castro, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

* Prateek Jain, Wright State University, USA

* Carsten Keßler, University of Muenster, Germany

* Jens Lehmann, University of Leipzig, Germany

* Joshua Lieberman, Traverse Technologies, USA

* Holger Neuhaus, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia

* Matthew Perry, Oracle, USA

* Simon Scheider, University of Muenster, Germany

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