GSDI 11 World Conference
Rotterdam, the Netherlands
15-19 June 2009
Theme: Spatial Data Infrastructure Convergence: Building SDI Bridges to Address Global Challenges
Call for Papers: http://gsdi.org/gsdi11/papers.html
Abstract Deadline: 1 December 2008
First Conference Circular (pdf): http://gsdi.org/gsdi11/documents/GSDI_11_FirstCircular.pdf
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
The organizers invite presentations covering the full range of practice, development and research experiences that advance the practice and theory of spatial data infrastructure development. Suggested Conference Topics may be found at http://gsdi.org/gsdi11/topics.html and tentative tracks into which the presentations will be organized are listed below
The submissions accepted through this call for papers will be orally presented in the parallel session tracks shown in the Program Overview. Other conference tracks and plenary sessions are being developed through invitation by the conference organizers.
GSDI 11 will support two primary forms of publication:
(1) a normal GSDI 11 Conference Proceedings with abstracts and full articles, published on a CD, and
(2) 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); the cadastre and similar topics
3. Geographic Data issues and Metadata issues
4. Clearinghouses/registries/portals
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, coolaborative 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 select 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
Abstract Submission Process, Format Requirements and Final Paper Submission Process
See http://gsdi.org/gsdi11/papers.html
(2) Special Issue of the International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructure Research (IJSDIR)
A post-conference special edition of the International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructure Research (IJSDIR) will be published. Full articles submitted to the conference proceedings will be reviewed by a Special Issue Editorial Board and a limited number will be invited for submission to a full refereeing process after the conference. After revisions in accordance with the critiques of reviewers, most of the invited articles are likely to be included in a special issue of IJSDIR. For further details, see http://gsdi.org/gsdi11/papers.html
Past Conferences
GSDI Association - http://gsdi.org/gsdiConferences.asp
INSPIRE - http://www.ec-gis.org/Workshops/inspire_2008/