CALL FOR PAPERS
Challenges in Geospatial Data Harmonisation
Pre-Conference Workshop at AGILE 2009
June 02, 2009
Hanover, Germany
http://www.esdi-humboldt.eu/events/agile2009.html
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European Spatial Data Infrastructures (ESDI) integrate the diversity of
geospatial data available for a multitude of European organisations. The
implementation of SDI in the context of initiatives like INSPIRE, GMES
and SEIS, requires that the organisations document, publish and
harmonise their geospatial data and support users in accessing this
information in a suitable way.
Data harmonisation is about creating the possibility to combine data
from heterogeneous sources into integrated, consistent and unambiguous
information products, in a way that is of no concern to the end-user.
This poses many different research challenges for facilitating the
harmonisation of geospatial data and metadata by automating the
necessary steps as far as possible.
This workshop will bring together researchers from different communities
to investigate current strategies and discuss future research
collaborations in the wider context of data harmonisation. Further, the
idea of the workshop is to learn about ongoing activities in research
projects that provide successful test cases for enabling geospatial data
harmonisation.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Research in harmonisation processing for e.g. resolution,
generalisation, edge matching, multiple representation, schema
translation
* Conceptual Schema Translation
o Specification of the mapping process
o Formal language for the specification
* Quality
o Specification of quality evaluation processes for harmonisation
o Metrics for quality evaluation of mapping processes
o Investigating the impact of processing on the quality of data
* How to enable semantic interoperability?
o Approaches with formal semantics, collaborative approaches,
approaches from machine learning, ...
o How to measure and express thematic accuracy?
* Handling gridded data (multidimensional grids) or dynamic data
(e.g. mathematical models for forecasts)
o Harmonisation issues
o Harmonisation processes
* Automatic set up of data harmonisation process
o Identification of existing heterogeneities such as semantic,
geometric, resolution or others
o Methods to automatically assign a specific harmonisation
process to a detected heterogeneity?
o How to handle specification and execution of workflows for
web services to construct complex transformation services?
PAPER SUBMISSION
We invite submissions of short papers (1000 - 2000 words). We are
looking for innovative research ideas as well as experiences with
applications and technologies. We especially encourage young researcher
and PhD students to submit their work. All papers will be peer-reviewed
and accepted papers will be invited for presentation at the workshop.
Selected paper will be invited for an extended submission for a Special
Issue of the IJSDIR.
Please send your submission by e-mail to submission@esdi-humboldt.eu
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submission: 17 April 2009
Notification of acceptance: 01 May 2009
Workshop: 02 June 2008
ORGANISATION
Eva Klien, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research
Sisi Zlatanova, Delft University of Technology
Christine Giger, ETH Zürich
Astrid Fichtinger, Technische Universität München
For more information on Geospatial Hungary please visit
http:// www.hunagi.hu and its linked interactive blogsites devoted to GI, SDI technologies and services e.g. http://hunagi8.blogspot.com or
http://unsdihu.blogspot.com
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