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Geospatial computing for the arts, humanities and cultural heritage

Chairs:
Stuart Dunn, Centre for e-Research, King’s College London
Fredrik Palm, HumLab, University of Umeå

Abstract

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), which may state a position or
describe a development or research outcome are invited, using the normal
IEEE paper formatting guidelines.

For more details, see:
http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ieee/workshops/geospatial

Deadlines

First drafts: 25th September 2009
Notification of acceptance: 2nd October 2009
Final papers due: October 14th 2009.

Please note that these are 'hard' deadlines, and it will unfortunately
not be possible to grant any extensions.

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