[esip-semanticweb] AAG 2014 Ontology and Semantics Session CFP

[Sorokine, Alexandre]

Association of American Geographers 2014 Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL
April 8-12, 2014 

Session Title:
Geospatial Ontology, Semantics, and Metadata

Session ID:
19511

Sponsor:
CyberInfrastructure and Cartography Specialty Groups

Session Organizers
Alexandre Sorokine (ORNL), Chen-Chieh Feng (NUS)

Abstract Deadline:
December 3rd, 2013

Call for Papers:
In this session we aim to bring together researchers working in
various fields of geospatial ontology.  The capture, representation,
and manipulation of knowledge is a great challenge from both
theoretical and practical perspectives.  With the latest advances in
knowledge engineering it becomes possible to employ ontologies in a
number of traditional and novel geoprocessing applications such as
intelligent search, image understanding, integration of disparate
geodata and VGI, knowledge discovery from Big Data, visual
representation of geographic categories, information extraction from
unstructured sources, and many others.

We invite presentations on both theoretical and application aspects of
geospatial ontologies and we are especially interested in the
following topics:

* Spatial knowledge modeling, analysis, formalization, and validation
(thesauri, vocabularies and ontologies)
* Semantic interoperability across domains, cultures, ethnicities,
languages and time, spatio-temporal models and reasoning
* Map symbolization schemes and their cultural/linguistic universality
* Ontologies of topographic and landscape features (special track)
* Applications of semantics and ontology to mapping and other
cartographic representations, map-based reasoning, vagueness
* Metadata and standards for spatial knowledge representation and
processing (e.g. XML, RDF, RDFS, OWL)
* Spatial knowledge infrastructures (semantic extensions to spatial
data infrastructures)

Other topics in geospatial ontology research are welcome too.


To present a paper or to participate in the session as a discussant:
1. Submit your abstract through AAG.org web site
2. E-mail your PIN to SorokinA at ornl.gov
Please follow standard AAG abstract submission procedure and
guidelines.  Also please e-mail one of the organizers to express your
interest if you intend to present or participate as a discussant in
this session at your earliest convenience.