GSDI 11 World Conference - call for papers

10 November 2008, 11:36am

GSDI 11 World Conference
Rotterdam, the Netherlands
15-19 June 2009
Theme: Spatial Data Infrastructure Convergence: Building SDI Bridges to Address Global Challenges

Abstract Deadline: 1 December 2008

Partners in organizing this conference include the GSDI Association, Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission, EUROGI, Geonovum, Space for Geoinformation Innovation Program (RGI) and Delft University of Technology. The plenary and paper sessions of three major geospatial conferences are being integrated into a single program and held in the same venue. These combined conferences include the Eleventh GSDI Conference, the Third Inspire Conference and the Dutch National Conference reporting on Dutch SDI Results and Challenges.

Call for Papers

Presentations are invited that cover the full range of practice, development and research experiences that advance the practice and theory of spatial data infrastructure development. Consult the suggested Conference Topics.

The submissions accepted through this call for papers will be orally presented in the parallel session tracks shown in the Program Overview.

GSDI 11 will support three primary forms of publication:

(1) a normal conference proceedings with abstracts and full articles, published on a CD,
(2) a pre-conference published book of fully refereed articles, and
(3) a post-conference special edition of the International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research (IJSDIR) with full articles selected from the proceedings and then fully refereed and revised after the conference.

(1) Call for Conference Proceedings Submissions

Abstracts should be 250-500 words in length and will be reviewed by the GSDI-11 Conference Program Committee. Authors are limited to a maximum of two conference paper abstract submissions, whether as lead or secondary author.

Presentations will be organized in the following tracks, but authors are invited as well to submit presentations that fall outside of these topical tracks. The tracks identified by number are as follows:

1. Experiences in developing local, regional, national, multi-national, and global SDI initiatives, projects and programs
2. Applications arising from the use of improved spatial data infrastructure including those related to poverty alleviation; environmental sustainability; e-government; e-commerce; disaster prevention, management and response; public order and safety; transportation; spatial planning; health; consumer products (e.g. navigation and gaming); managing resources such as oceans, forests, roads, rivers, housing and property (cadastre) and similar topics
3. Geographic Data issues and Metadata issues
4. Clearinghouses/registries/portals/archives
5. Web-based services for discovery, access and processing
6. Standards and Interoperability Issues
7. Legal, Ethics, Policy, and Economic issues
8. Institutional, Administrative, and Management Issues
9. Emerging Participatory, Inclusive and Collaborative Approaches in Developing Content and Infrastructure (e.g. participatory GIS, geoweb tools, data commons, collaborative commercial and open source software production approaches, volunteered geographic information, global geo efforts)
10. Capacity Building and Education, Knowledge Exchange (e.g. among research, development, education and professional practice communities as well as throughout society)
11. Basic and Applied Research Methods and Research Results
12. Other

High-quality submissions will be accepted for presentation at the conference. Abstracts and follow-up full articles will be published in a conference proceedings volume to be made available on CD. For follow-up full paper submissions, authors retain copyright in their work but will be required to agree to a Creative Commons License to help ensure continued global access to their work over time. All publications produced for the conference, including abstracts, full papers and presentation slides, will be openly archived eventually at gsdi.org/gsdiConferences.asp

Proceedings Submission Deadlines

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1 December 2008
Results of abstract reviews returned to authors: 1 February 2009
Deadline for submission of full papers: 1 April 2009
Deadline for full conference registration payment for all presenters: 15 April 2009
GSDI-11 Conference Technical Sessions: 15-19 June 2009

(2) Call for Article Submissions for the Fully Refereed Book

Full papers, consisting of 5,000-word manuscripts, will be thoroughly reviewed by at least three members of the international GSDI-11 Peer Review Board. Manuscripts should describe original work that has not been published before.

Final Papers must be written in English (although the initial abstract and first version of the paper may be in Spanish), include an abstract, conform with the sample manuscript template and be submitted electronically. High-quality submissions will be accepted for presentation at the conference and will be published in book form as a refereed conference document tentatively titled Spatial Data Infrastructure Convergence: Research, Emerging Trends, and Critical Assessment. Authors will retain copyright in their work but will be required to submit a Creative Commons License to help ensure continued global access to their work over time. Any submissions not accepted for the book will be forwarded for consideration under the abstract review process for the conference and for the Special Issue of the International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructure Research. The special issue will accommodate scholarly articles that may be more case history based.

Full-length paper submissions for the book will be expected to address fundamental theory or research in any area of spatial data infrastructure advancement. Submissions in this category might:

* test or analyze innovative approaches in addressing technical, legal, economic, or institutional challenges;
* critically assess current spatial data infrastructure initiatives;
* document and analyze successes and challenges to be found in standards efforts, data harmonization efforts, and case histories;
* describe conceptual models that incorporate emerging or future technological, institutional, economic, legal or combined solutions in overcoming spatial data sharing impediments;
* compare or analyze existing alternative approaches or models for planning, financing, and implementing SDI or related initiatives in different countries or regions of the world and assess the effects of policy and technical choices in addressing cultural, social and economic issues;
* assess whether SDI projects are achieving programmatic goals or broader goals such as supporting national economic competitiveness, increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of government and advancing health, safety, and social well-being;
* critically examine best practices in terms of their policy, technological, institutional and financial approaches and their ultimate effects on improving efficiency, effectiveness, and equity;
* identify and assess the implications of various practices and approaches on local, state, provincial, national, trans-national and global stakeholders with a particular emphasis of ramifications on developing nations.

The article must adhere to the specifications set forth in the Manuscript Template of the International Journal of SDI Research.

For full details, visit the on-line article or the GSDI-11 conference web site at the links below.

Call for Papers

GSDI Conference web site

GEO:connexion International article link

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