Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Call for Papers for FOSS4G 2013 Academic Track

2013-01-23 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan 

On 2013/01/23 18:49, Massimiliano Cannata wrote:

> From the web page:

"""
We invite academics and researchers to submit full papers in English,
of maximum 6,000 words, before the deadline of 1 February 2013.
Templates for submissions in a variety of formats can be found here,
and detailed requirements, regarding layout, formatting and the
submission process, can be found on the FOSS4G 2103 Academic Track
submission pages at http://2013.foss4g.org/ojs/
"""


This is clear...

but then my question is:
- Why do I have to submit a paper without knowing if I'm going to be select
for presentation?
- And why 7 months before of the conference?

It looks to me quite strange...


Previous FOSS4G's had abstract review by the academic committee
and selected authors were asked to submit full papers closer to
the conference dates.

I see that we do not have an academic committee in place for FOSS4G 2013
and I agree with Maxi that the submission 1 Feb 2013 deadline for 
FOSS4G-2013

Academic track is too early.

Venka
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] points of interest database

2013-01-23 Thread Raj Singh 
I do follow the draft W3C spec in terms of the data model and XML encoding. We 
never got to the JSON and RDF encodings as the effort stalled in W3C. 

In OGC we're starting a group to create a standard for the data model, XML and 
JSON encoding. That list will be private to OGC members as it will be a SWG. 
We'll keep people updated here as well. 

The RDF and Microdata work is going to continue in a W3C community group:
http://www.w3.org/community/places/
We can talk semantics there!

I don't know how big the database dump will be. Hopefully I can get that posted 
in a day or two.

---
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On Jan 23, at 6:06 AM, Dimitris Kotzinos  wrote:

> Hi Raj,
> 
> thanks for the prompt reply!
> if you can send me a postgres/postgis dump, this would be extremely useful! 
> (thanks!).
> By the way, (and this is the main reason that I address it to the list, too) 
> do you plan to follow/adapt the corresponding W3C recommendation or do you 
> already do that?
> If not and if you need some involvement for the semantic part I would also be 
> happy to participate.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Dimitris
> 
> 
> 
> Raj Singh wrote:
>> Hi Dimitris. I'm the host/developer of OpenPOIs from OGC. Right now OpenPOIs 
>> is an aggregation of Geonames and DBPedia information. I'll soon be adding 
>> OpenStreetMap POIs to the mix, but that won't be complete for a few months. 
>> I'm also experimenting with a write API that will allow content providers to 
>> add to the database. That should be ready in a few weeks. I'd be happy to 
>> get you a postgresql/postgis database dump at any time if that would be 
>> useful.
>> 
>> ---
>> Raj Singh
>> r...@rajsingh.org
>> http://www.rajsingh.org/
>> 
>> On Jan 22, at 11:56 AM, Dimitris Kotzinos  wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear all,
>>> 
>>> I am looking for a points of interest database (regardless of format, I use 
>>> database in a loose term here) that is licensed under one of the open 
>>> source/data/creative commons licenses.
>>> I know of course about open street maps and their layer of POIs and the one 
>>> from OGC (http://openpoidb.ogcnetwork.net/).
>>> Is there anything else available out there? :)
>>> 
>>> Many thanks in advance for the help and I do apologize since I am sure that 
>>> this is a recurring question,
>>> 
>>> Dimitris
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Reminder: Call for Papers FOSSGIS 2013 in Rapperswil, Switzerland

2013-01-23 Thread Elisabeth Leu 
-- Last days of Call for Paper! Submit until January, 31. 2013! --

The FOSSGIS-conference is the largest german-language conference for Free
and Open Source Software for GIS and Free Geodata hosting about 400
participants.

Today, the Conference Committee announced the "Call for papers" for 2013.
Because the conference-language is german, the CfP is either.

The program committee will, however, also consider applications for talks
or workshops held in English if they are deeemed to add to the quality of
the conference. So if you don't speak German, but are a FOSS/Open Data
celebrity, or have a story that only you can tell, please feel free to
submit your talk. We are unlikely to be able to provide interpreters, but
we'll make sure you don't get lost in Germany.

Please be aware that you can submit paper until January, 31. 2013.:
http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2013/callforpapers/

We are looking forward to see you in Rapperswil (Switzerland) June 12-14.
http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2013/

Your FOSSGIS-Team


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] points of interest database

2013-01-23 Thread Vasilis Vlastaras 
Dimitris and all,

Cloudmade provides dumps of the openstreetmap data in various formats
including shapefiles for all over the world. Those dumps have POIs
included.
All these can be found in:

http://downloads.cloudmade.com/

Checking around Raj's OpenPOIs, I see that POIs come from geonames or
dbpedia datasets. Geonames already mentioned earlier.

DBpedia, an attempt to provide structured information extracted from
wikipedia, provides dumps in N-Triples and N-Quads. Data provided
include geographic information as well.
The dumps for version 3.8 can be found in:

http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Downloads38

Also, LingedGeoData is an attempt to provide linked data between
openstreetmap / DBpedia and GeoNames.
The datasets can be found in RDF format here:

http://linkedgeodata.org/Datasets
http://downloads.linkedgeodata.org/


Vasilis.


On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Gérald Fenoy  wrote:
> Dear Dimitris, dear Raj,
> is there any way to share this dump publicly and get a link ?
>
> Waiting for your answer,
> Best regards,
>
> Gérald Fenoy
> gerald.fe...@geolabs.fr
>
>
> Le 23 janv. 2013 à 12:06, Dimitris Kotzinos  a écrit :
>
>> if you can send me a postgres/postgis dump, this would be extremely useful! 
>> (thanks!).
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] points of interest database

2013-01-23 Thread Gérald Fenoy 
Dear Dimitris, dear Raj,
is there any way to share this dump publicly and get a link ?

Waiting for your answer,
Best regards,

Gérald Fenoy
gerald.fe...@geolabs.fr


Le 23 janv. 2013 à 12:06, Dimitris Kotzinos  a écrit :

> if you can send me a postgres/postgis dump, this would be extremely useful! 
> (thanks!).

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] points of interest database

2013-01-23 Thread Dimitris Kotzinos 

Hi Raj,

thanks for the prompt reply!
if you can send me a postgres/postgis dump, this would be extremely 
useful! (thanks!).
By the way, (and this is the main reason that I address it to the list, 
too) do you plan to follow/adapt the corresponding W3C recommendation or 
do you already do that?
If not and if you need some involvement for the semantic part I would 
also be happy to participate.


Best regards,

Dimitris



Raj Singh wrote:

Hi Dimitris. I'm the host/developer of OpenPOIs from OGC. Right now OpenPOIs is 
an aggregation of Geonames and DBPedia information. I'll soon be adding 
OpenStreetMap POIs to the mix, but that won't be complete for a few months. I'm 
also experimenting with a write API that will allow content providers to add to 
the database. That should be ready in a few weeks. I'd be happy to get you a 
postgresql/postgis database dump at any time if that would be useful.

---
Raj Singh
r...@rajsingh.org
http://www.rajsingh.org/

On Jan 22, at 11:56 AM, Dimitris Kotzinos  wrote:


Dear all,

I am looking for a points of interest database (regardless of format, I use 
database in a loose term here) that is licensed under one of the open 
source/data/creative commons licenses.
I know of course about open street maps and their layer of POIs and the one 
from OGC (http://openpoidb.ogcnetwork.net/).
Is there anything else available out there? :)

Many thanks in advance for the help and I do apologize since I am sure that 
this is a recurring question,

Dimitris
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Call for Papers for FOSS4G 2013 Academic Track

2013-01-23 Thread Dr. Franz-Josef Behr 
Thanks for the discussion, and I can imagine that there might be a risk 
involved if somebody decides to make a submission.


But that's the way reviewed contributions are going to be published.

7 months before the conference is not early, if we are lucke, we can 
handle the review, selection, publishing process in time.


Franz-Josef

Am 23.01.2013 10:49, schrieb Massimiliano Cannata:


On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Barry Rowlingson 
mailto:b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk>> 
wrote:


On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Massimiliano Cannata
mailto:massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch>> wrote:
> Dear Dr. Beher,
> apologize me for this question, but it is not clear to me if at
this stage
> you are asking to submit an abstract for evaluation or a full
paper for
> evaluation.
>
> In last years, generally I submitted an abstract, then if
selected for
> presentation in academic track I where asked for a full paper,
> and then if selected I had to go trough a review process by the
editors.

>From the web page:

"""
We invite academics and researchers to submit full papers in English,
of maximum 6,000 words, before the deadline of 1 February 2013.
Templates for submissions in a variety of formats can be found here,
and detailed requirements, regarding layout, formatting and the
submission process, can be found on the FOSS4G 2103 Academic Track
submission pages at http://2013.foss4g.org/ojs/
"""


This is clear...

but then my question is:
- Why do I have to submit a paper without knowing if I'm going to be 
select for presentation?

- And why 7 months before of the conference?

It looks to me quite strange...

Massimiliano


Barry




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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Call for Papers for FOSS4G 2013 Academic Track

2013-01-23 Thread Massimiliano Cannata 
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Barry Rowlingson <
b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Massimiliano Cannata
>  wrote:
> > Dear Dr. Beher,
> > apologize me for this question, but it is not clear to me if at this
> stage
> > you are asking to submit an abstract for evaluation or a full paper for
> > evaluation.
> >
> > In last years, generally I submitted an abstract, then if selected for
> > presentation in academic track I where asked for a full paper,
> > and then if selected I had to go trough a review process by the editors.
>
> >From the web page:
>
> """
> We invite academics and researchers to submit full papers in English,
> of maximum 6,000 words, before the deadline of 1 February 2013.
> Templates for submissions in a variety of formats can be found here,
> and detailed requirements, regarding layout, formatting and the
> submission process, can be found on the FOSS4G 2103 Academic Track
> submission pages at http://2013.foss4g.org/ojs/
> """
>

This is clear...

but then my question is:
- Why do I have to submit a paper without knowing if I'm going to be select
for presentation?
- And why 7 months before of the conference?

It looks to me quite strange...

Massimiliano


>
> Barry
>



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Call for Papers for FOSS4G 2013 Academic Track

2013-01-23 Thread Barry Rowlingson 
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Massimiliano Cannata
 wrote:
> Dear Dr. Beher,
> apologize me for this question, but it is not clear to me if at this stage
> you are asking to submit an abstract for evaluation or a full paper for
> evaluation.
>
> In last years, generally I submitted an abstract, then if selected for
> presentation in academic track I where asked for a full paper,
> and then if selected I had to go trough a review process by the editors.

>From the web page:

"""
We invite academics and researchers to submit full papers in English,
of maximum 6,000 words, before the deadline of 1 February 2013.
Templates for submissions in a variety of formats can be found here,
and detailed requirements, regarding layout, formatting and the
submission process, can be found on the FOSS4G 2103 Academic Track
submission pages at http://2013.foss4g.org/ojs/
"""

Barry
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] Call for Papers for FOSS4G 2013 Academic Track

2013-01-23 Thread Massimiliano Cannata 
Dear Dr. Beher,
apologize me for this question, but it is not clear to me if at this stage
you are asking to submit an abstract for evaluation or a full paper for
evaluation.

In last years, generally I submitted an abstract, then if selected for
presentation in academic track I where asked for a full paper,
and then if selected I had to go trough a review process by the editors.

Is it this the case, or rules have changed?

Regards,
Massimiliano

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Dr. Franz-Josef Behr <
franz-josef.b...@hft-stuttgart.de> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> I want to inform you that the final Call for Papers for FOSS4G 2013 was
> published at:
>
> 
> http://2013.foss4g.org/**academic-track/call-for-**papers/
>
> The papers should be submitted in one of these formats you can find here:
> 
> http://2013.foss4g.org/ojs/**static/FOSS4G2013_templates.**zip
>
> Note the submission deadline: 1 February 2013!
> We are looking forward receiving your contributions in the fields of
>
> Free and Open GIS science / technology / projects.
>
> Best regards
>
> Dr. Franz-Josef Behr
> - Co-chair FOSS4G 2013 Academic track -
>
> PS: Sorry for potential cross-posting.
>
>
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