We are now less than a month away from the deadline for submitting abstracts to the combined GSDI, Inspire and Dutch National conferences on SDI.
GSDI 11 World Conference will be held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, from 15 to 19 June 2009, with the theme "Spatial Data Infrastructure Convergence: Building SDI Bridges to Address Global Challenges".
The Call for Papers is listed below and may also be found with all the active web links at www.gsdi.org/gsdi11/papers.html. Abstract deadline: 1 December 2008.
Partners in organizing this conference include the GSDI Association, Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission, EUROGI, Geonovum, Space for Geoinformation Innovation Program (RGI) and Delft University of Technology.
The plenary and paper sessions of three major geospatial conferences are being integrated into a single program and held in the same venue. These combined conferences include the Eleventh GSDI Conference, the Third Inspire Conference and the Dutch National Conference reporting on Dutch SDI Results and Challenges.
Call for Papers
Presentations are invited that cover the full range of practice, development and research experiences that advance the practice and theory of spatial data infrastructure development. Consult the suggested Conference Topics.
The submissions accepted through this call for papers will be orally presented in the parallel session tracks shown in the Program Overview.
GSDI 11 will support three primary forms of publication:
– A normal conference proceedings with abstracts and full articles, published on a CD;
– A pre-conference published book of fully refereed articles; and
– A post-conference special edition of the International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research (IJSDIR) with full articles selected from the proceedings and then fully refereed and revised after the conference.
Fore more information, please visit
GSDI Association – http://gsdi.org/gsdiConferences.asp
Inspire – www.ec-gis.org/Workshops/inspire_2008