Topics of interest

The focus of the workshop will lie on all the geospatial aspects that are related to the Web. A location-aware Web could spawn many network effects among different location-aware data models and services, where interoperability and interaction so far were limited because of the lack of a well-defined location concept for the Web. We encourage submissions that will enable mobile search, search in automotive, special local search engines in specialized fields. The workshop will look at the theme of location and the Web from a macro-level, interdisciplinary perspective. In recent years, the topic of location appears in many communities and is achieving great attention - user generated content, location-related multimedia Web content,Web scale geo-content mining, and mobile search are only some of these developments. Therefore, the workshop would encourage submission in the following research areas.
  • Spatial Web information retrieval
    • Geographically focused search
    • Ranking for geographical search
    • Geographical annotation techniques for geo-referenced media
    • Spatial indexing of documents and media resources in the Web
    • Locative spam
  • Understanding and modeling location
    • Deriving location concepts from position information
    • Harvesting and mining location from different Web sources
    • Core location concepts and formal ontologies for location information
    • Location as first-level Web concept; location syntax and semantics
    • Geo-to-location: gazetteers and location entity information sources
  • Visualizing geographically referenced data
    • Geographical user interfaces for the Web
    • Visualizing and interacting with location-driven query results
    • Tools and applications of geographic mashups on the Web
    • Visualizing and accessing localized data on mobile devices
  • Location, mobility and the user
    • Mobile localized search
    • Mobile sensor data fusion and location
  • Geospatial media and applications
    • Web and mobile applications using geo-driven media and content
    • Extracting and using location in and from Web 2.0 communities
    • Social networking with location-aware social software