Crowd Sourcing for Updating National Databases

23 February 2010, 10:45am

CSND'2010 - Crowd Sourcing for Updating National Databases
from off the record to accredited volunteered GEOinformation
2nd Symposium
8-9th September 2010
Bern, Switzerland

Call for Participation – Call for Papers

Based upon the promising result of the 1st EuroSDR Workshop on Crowd Sourcing for Updating National Databases, held at the Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo), Wabern, Switzerland on August 20-21, 2009, we invite you to participate in this follow up symposium.

The symposium aims at strengthening the collaboration of the (National) Mapping and Cadastral Agencies (NMCA), the research communities and companies in the field of user generated contents, which is identified as an important and valuable input in map or GEOdata updating procedures, contents generation and interactions with the users. The symposium should help overcome the lack of experience, knowledge of interaction schemes, of techniques, of legal aspects and of production process integration aspects. The symposium topics are focussed on volunteered GEOdata aspects (not vernacular geography or data mining topics).

Symposium Topics:

This symposium will include paper presentations and panel discussions with the focus on the scientific, technical, operational and legal aspects of Crowd Sourcing of GEOinformation for NMCA's:

• Crowd sourcing for NMCA's and geoportals

o state of the art, solutions, projects and objectives
o experiences on communal, district, national, international scale
o applications, software and hardware

• Interaction with the crowds

o identification of crowds and community building
o care, motivation, incentives, rewards

• Quality of crowd sourced GEOdata

o standards
o validation and controlling
o data matching, integration, differential updates
o legal aspects

Important dates:

- Abstract submission deadline 15th May, 2010
- Notification of contribution acceptance to participants 15th June, 2010
- Full paper submission deadline 24th July, 2010
- Registration deadline 1st September, 2010
- CSND'2010 symposium 8-9th September, 2010

Participation and Call for Papers:

Participation at CSND'2010 is open to all individuals interested in or working in the fields of volunteered GEOinformation and crowd sourcing.

Abstracts, received by the deadline will be considered for program placement as oral presentation under a review process by the scientific committee:

- Christian Heipke Institute of Photogrammetry and GeoInformation, Leibniz University of Hannover, DE
- Antti Jakobsson EuroGeographics, Paris, F
- Mike Jackson Centre for Geospatial Science, The University of Nottingham, UK
- André Streilein Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, CH

- Abstract deadline is 15th May 2010
- All abstracts must be written in English and contain a minimum of 400 words to be fairly reviewed.
- Include paper title, presenting author name, affiliation and email address at the top of each abstract.
- Abstracts should clearly and concisely state the problem, methodology used and central conclusions.

Presenting authors with accepted abstracts are encouraged but not required to publish their contribution as a paper in the symposium proceedings. The papers must be at least four pages and must not exceed eight pages length (including all text, figures, references, and appendices). The results described must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. The papers will be published as proceedings. Please send your abstracts as a PDF file to: CSND2010@swisstopo.ch .

Registration:

The registration fee is 100 Euro / 150 CHF (includes admission to all sessions, refreshments, lunch and dinner). Please register for the workshop by 1st September 2010.

Payment of the workshop fee: We would appreciate your payment, by international bank transfer only, being made directly to our Federal Office of Topography Bank account at:

Schweizerische Nationalbank
Bundesplatz 1, CH-3003 Bern, Switzerland
International Bank Account Number IBAN-Nr. CH49 0011 0001 5305 0003 6
SWIFT/BIC-Code: SNBZ CH ZZ 30A
Clearing-Nr.: 110

Please indicate «CSND2010» and your FULL NAME as the payment reference on your transfer.

Please ensure that the organisers receive the full amount of the workshop fee and that possible transaction charges are covered by the participant.

Venue

The symposium will be held in the city of Bern, Switzerland, close to the main station:
Seminar Hotel Sorell Ador, Laupenstrasse 15, CH-3001 Bern, www.hotelador.ch, room "Honegger"

Accommodation

We recommend that you select and book your accommodation via the Bern Tourism website below.

Contacts:
T. Kellenberger CSND2010@swisstopo.ch

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