With apologies for cross-postings
Workshop at 5th IEEE International Conference on e-Science
Oxford, UK, 9-11 December 2009
Geospatial computing for the arts, humanities and cultural heritage
References to time and location pervade the human record, both past and
present: an oft-quoted statistic is that some 80% of all online
information is in some way georeferenced. It is unsurprising therefore
that as researchers in the arts, humanities and cultural heritage become
more fully engaged with e-infrastructures, their disciplines’ engagement
with, and use of, spatial and temporal data gives rise to new and
interesting research questions in this area.
How, for example, can heterogeneous academic data resources which fall
into the 80% of georeferenced information – including, for example,
historical texts, archaeological databases or museum collections - be
linked and cross-queried without dictating the research process or
methods used? How can geo-temporal data be visualized, both
geographically and non-geographically? What is the role of ‘virtual
globes’ such as Google Earth as platforms for the expression of such
data? What can digital tools and methods in geospatial computing
contribute to the use and understanding of space and time in the
practice-led arts, creative industries and galleries (e.g. for
documenting performances or visitor pathways)? How can issues of scale
that are common to both time and space be usefully explored in the arts,
humanities and cultural heritage sectors?
This workshop seeks contributions from which might further these, and
similar, questions. Contributors might (not exhaustively) include:
* Academics in the arts, humanities or cultural heritage who are making
use of spatial and/or temporal data in their research
* Researchers with relevant interests in HCI or related disciplines
* Researchers, curators, practitioners etc. from outside the academic
sector (e.g. museums and galleries)
* Developers or information scientists working on geospatial or temporal
tools or applications
Short contributions (up to four pages, including images, references and
notes), in IEEE format (see
http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ieee/call-for-papers/formatting-guidelines) are
invited.
Deadlines are:
September 25th: Submission of first drafts
October 2nd: Notification of acceptance and reviewers' comments
October 14th: Final submission of camera-ready papers
Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=geospatialworkshopieee09
Stuart Dunn (King's College London)
Fredrik Palm (University of Umeå)
Workshop co-chairs
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Dr Stuart Dunn
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Centre for e-Research
King's College London
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