GSDI 12 World Conference - Call for Papers

13 January 2010, 2:01pm

GSDI 12 World Conference
Singapore
19-22 October 2010
Theme: Realizing Spatially Enabled Societies

The Call for Papers is listed below and may be found also with all web links active at the link below.

Abstract Deadline: 1 April 2010
Book Chapter Submission Deadline: 15 March 2010
Refereed Journal Special Issue Deadline: selected from conference full paper submissions

CALL FOR PAPERS

This joint conference is hosted by several organizations that are inviting presentations covering the full range of practice, development and research experiences that advance the practice and theory of spatial data infrastructure development and spatial technology advancement.

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

GSDI 12 will support three primary forms of publication:

(1) a normal conference proceedings with abstracts and full articles (non-refereed and refereed), 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-12 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 spatial data infrastructure initiatives, projects and programs at the following levels: local and regional, national, multi-national, and global.

2. Applications arising from the use of improved spatial data infrastructure or spatially enabling citizens or government including applications related to: poverty alleviation; environmental sustainability and energy; e-government; e-commerce; disaster prevention, management and response; health, safety or public order; transportation; administering or managing property (cadaster), land uses, housing, or spatial planning; managing natural resources such as oceans, forests, and rivers; consumer products (e.g. navigation and gaming); other applications

3. Geographic data issues

4. Geographic metadata, maintenance and updating issues and initiatives

5. Registries, portals, clearinghouses and archives

6. Web-based services for discovery, access, processing and product generation

7. Standards and interoperability issues

8. Legal, ethics, policy, and economic issues

9. Institutional, administrative, and management issues

10. 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)

11. Capacity building and education, Knowledge Exchange (e.g. among research, development, education and professional practice communities as well as throughout society)

12. Basic and applied research methods and results

13. 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 the site below.

Proceedings Submission Deadlines

- Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1 April 2010

- Deadline for submission of full papers (if author wants consideration as a refereed paper in the proceedings): 1 April 2010

- Notification of acceptance or rejection for oral paper session and poster presentations: 1 June 2010

- Notification of acceptance or rejection for refereed proceedings article: 1 June 2010
Deadline for submission of full papers for proceedings (non-refereed but still considered for journal special issue): 1 July 2010
Deadline for full conference registration payment for all oral and poster presenters: 1 August 2010

GSDI-12 conference dates: 19-22 October 2010

See the web sites below for more information on submission requirements and procedures.

GSDI-12 Call for Papers information

GSDI 12 World Conference

GSDI Conferences archive site

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