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CFP: Journal of Web Semantics: Special Issue on Geospatial Semantics
http://www.websemanticsjournal.org/index.php/ps/announcement/view/18
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*Deadlines*:
- Submission deadline (*extended*): February 16, 2015 (23:59 Hawaii
Standard Time)
- Paper acceptance notification: Mid-April, 2015
- Publication: Third quarter, 2015
Geospatial reasoning has an increasingly larger scope in the semantic
web. More and more information is geolocated, more mobile devices
produce geocoded records, and more web mashups are created to convey
geospatial information. Semantics can enable automated integration of
geospatial information, and track the provenance of the data shown to an
end user. Semantics can also improve visualizations and querying of
geospatial data. Semantics can also support crowdsourcing of geospatial
data, particularly to track identity through name and property changes
over time. Several recent workshops on geospatial semantics have
emphasized the interest in the community on these topics. Of note are
workshops organized by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Open
Geospatial Consortium (OGC) indicating a strong interest in
standardization efforts in geospatial semantics. This special issue aims
to synthesize the recent trends in research and practice in the area of
geospatial semantics.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Combining semantic information with more traditional representations
and standards for geospatial data
* Exploiting semantics to enhance visualizations of geospatial information
* Use of semantics to support geospatial data integration and conflation
* Semantic mashups of geospatial data
* Semantic provenance of geospatial data (e.g., PROV)
* Semantics for mobile geospatial applications
* Geospatial linked open data
* Managing privacy of personal geospatial data and whereabouts through
semantics
* Combining semantic web standards (W3C) with geospatial (OGC) standards
(e.g., GML)
* Format for representing geographical data (e.g., GeoJSON)
* Semantics for crowdsourcing geospatial information
* Semantics for exploiting geospatial information in social network
platforms
* Scalable reasoning with semantic geospatial data
* Real world applications of semantic geospatial frameworks
Guest Editors
- Yolanda Gil, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern
California
- Raphaël Troncy, Multimedia Communications Department, EURECOM
Submission guidelines
The Journal of Web Semantics solicits original scientific contributions
of high quality. Following the overall mission of the journal, we
emphasize the publication of papers that combine theories, methods and
experiments from different subject areas in order to deliver innovative
semantic methods and applications. The publication of large-scale
experiments and their analysis is also encouraged to clearly illustrate
scenarios and methods that introduce semantics into existing Web
interfaces, contents and services.
Submission of your manuscript is welcome provided that it, or any
translation of it, has not been copyrighted or published and is not
being submitted for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should be
prepared for publication in accordance with instructions given in the
JWS guide for authors
(http://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-web-semantics/1570-8268/guide-for-authors).
The submission and review process will be carried out using Elsevier's
Web-based EES system (http://ees.elsevier.com/jws/default.asp). When
submitting, please select *"SI:GEOSEM"* for the article type. Upon
acceptance of an article, the author(s) will be asked to transfer
copyright of the article to the publisher. This transfer will ensure the
widest possible dissemination of information. Elsevier's liberal
preprint policy (http://www.elsevier.com/journal-authors/preprints)
permits authors and their institutions to host preprints on their web
sites. Preprints of the articles will be made freely accessible on the
JWS preprint server (http://www.websemanticsjournal.org/index.php/ps).
Final copies of accepted publications will appear in print and at
Elsevier's archival online server.
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Raphaël Troncy
EURECOM, Campus SophiaTech
Multimedia Communications Department
450 route des Chappes, 06410 Biot, France.
e-mail: [email protected] & [email protected]
Tel: +33 (0)4 - 9300 8242
Fax: +33 (0)4 - 9000 8200
Web: http://www.eurecom.fr/~troncy/
