Conference organizers of GeoWeb 2008 announced that due to popular demand, the Call for Papers deadline has been extended to March 7, 2008. The conference will take place from July 21st to July 25th, 2008 and will be held at the Morris J. Wosk Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The theme for the GeoWeb 2008 conference is Infrastructure: Local to Global.
This implies the GeoWeb has a local or community dimension as well as a global one – that the integration of local infrastructures will give rise to a global infrastructure – that global aggregators will drive the creation of local infrastructures. Papers on any aspect of these issues are welcome and key themes of the paper presentations are:
– Global aggregators and Data Communities
– GeoWeb in Security and Defense
– Real time emergency response and environmental security
– Neo-geo, user generated data and the GI professional
– CAD-BIM-GIS-Games Integration – 3D Cityscapes (Worlds Real and Virtual)
– Infrastructure for information – building alongside physical infrastructure
– Municipal SDI in the GeoWeb
– Imaging, Coverages and Information Infrastructures
– Conference papers can also be submitted that address these issues in technical terms or in policy/social terms or even combinations of the above.
Presenters will be chosen based on a formal selection process led by GeoWeb’s Organizing Committee. The 2008 Organizing Committee consists of:
– David Burggraf, Director of Research and Development, Galdos Systems, Inc.
– Tim Case, Deputy CTO, Parsons Brinckerhoff
– David Dodds, Director, Open-Meta Computing Inc.
– Michael Gerlek, Software Architect, LizardTech, Inc.
– Michael Jones, CTO, Google Earth
– Ron Lake (Committee Chair), Chairman & CEO, Galdos Systems, Inc.
– Natasha Leger, Columnist, Imaging Notes
– Nicolas Loubier, Product Manager, Bentley Systems
– Gordon Plunkett, Director, ESRI Canada Limited
– Carl Reed, III, CTO, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.
– Carsten Roensdorf, Principal Data Consultant, Ordnance Survey
– Daniel Shannon, Manager Operations, Telus Geomatics (TCI)
– Geoff Zeiss, Director of Technology, Autodesk
Prospective speakers should submit abstracts no longer than 200 words and include the presentation title, the name of the presenter or presenters, the presenting organization, and their preferred theme. The abstract online submission form as well as complete information on the call for papers process may be obtained at www.geowebconference.org and must be submitted prior to Friday, March 7th, 2008.
Complete information on the call for papers process and conference may be obtained at www.geowebconference.org.