Second ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geospatial Humanities

Second ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geospatial Humanities

November 6, 2018, Seattle, Washington, USA

In conjunction with the 26th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on
Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2018)

https://bgmartins.github.io/sigspatial-geohumanities/

*** Call for Papers ***

The ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geospatial Humanities is concerned with
the use of geographic information systems and other spatial technologies
in humanities research. We aim to bring together researchers and
practitioners from different sub-fields of computer science and the
geographical information sciences, interested in the application of
spatial methods and technology to the humanities. Participants will
explore and demonstrate the contributions to knowledge that modern GIS
technologies can enable within and beyond the digital humanities.

The workshop invites contributions on the following topics, as well as
other research related to the Spatial Humanities :

+ Gazetteer development (e.g., models, data conflation, semantic
technologies, etc.)
+ Historical geographical information systems
+ Spatio-temporal network analysis in the humanities
+ Text geo-parsing and other NLP techniques for geographical text
analysis
+ Spatial simulation in the humanities (e.g., cellular automata and
agent-based models)
+ Spatial and spatio-temporal analysis of humanities data
+ Visualization and cartographic representations for humanities data
+ Handling vague and imprecise historical spatio-temporal data
+ Applications of the aforementioned techniques

*** Associated Special Issue ***

A special issue of Springer GeoJournal, focused on the Spatial
Humanities, will complement the 2018 ACMSIGSPATIAL Workshop on
Geospatial Humanities. Authors with best papers will be invited to
prepare and submit extended versions to be considered for the special
issue. Submissions to the special issue will also be open to all
interested authors, regardless of their participations in the workshop.

*** Paper Submission ***

Contributions should be submitted in the form of long papers (i.e., up
to 10 pages in PDF, according to the ACM formatting guidelings) :

http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template

Contributions should report on relatively mature research results, or
alternatively on more specliative and early stage research that may
nonetheless stimulate discussion at the workshop.

Paper submissions should be made through the EasyChair system :

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigspatial-geohumanities-2018

*** Important Dates ***

+ Paper Submission Deadline : September 7, 2018
+ Notification of Acceptance : September 26, 2018
+ Camera-Ready Submissions : October 3, 2018
+ Workshop Date : November 6, 2018

*** Organizers ***

+ Bruno Martins, University of Lisbon
(bruno.g.martins@tecnico.ulisboa.pt)

+ Patricia Murrieta-Flores, Lancaster University
(p.a.murrieta-flores@lancaster.ac.uk)

*** Program Commitee ***

Our program commitee draws from multiple disciplines, including computer
science and engineering, GIScience, digital humanities, and others.

+ Adam Rabinowitz, University of Texas at Austin
+ Andrea Ballatore, University of London
+ Asanobu Kitamoto, National Institute of Informatics at Tokyo
+ Beatrice Alex, Edinburgh University
+ Benjamin Adams, University of Canterbury
+ Carmen Brando, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
+ Chris Donaldson, Lancaster University
+ Chris Jones, Cardiff University
+ Daniel Alves, New University of Lisbon
+ David Joseph Wrisley, NYU Abu Dhabi
+ Eero Hyvönen, University of Helsinki and Aalto University
+ Elton Barker, The Open University
+ Humphrey Southall, University of Portsmouth
+ Ian Gregory, Lancaster University
+ Joanna Taylor, Lancaster University
+ Matthew Wilkens, University of Notre Dame
+ Pau de Soto, New University of Lisbon
+ Philip Verhagen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
+ Karl Grossner, University of Pittsburgh
+ Katherine Hart Weimer, Rice University
+ Katherine McDonough, Standford University
+ Ludovic Moncla, French Naval Academy Research Institute
+ Rainer Simon, Austrian Institute of Technology
+ Raquel Liceras, Lancaster University
+ Ross Purves, University of Zurich
+ Stephan Winter, University of Melbourne
+ Thomas C. Van Dijk, University of Wuerzburg
+ Xavier Rubio-Campillo, Edinburgh University
+ Yao-Yi Chiang, University of Southern California
+ Yingjie Hu, University of Tennessee Knoxville