CFP: Journal of Web Semantics special issue on geospatial semantics

The Journal of Web Semantics seeks submissions for a special issue on geospatial semantics (http://bit.ly/jwsCFPgs) to be edited by Yolanda Gil and Raphaël Troncy. Submissions are due by January 31, 2015.

Geospatial reasoning has an increasingly larger scope in the semantic web. More and more information is geolocated, more mobile devices produce geocoded records, and more web mashups are created to convey geospatial information. Semantics can enable automated integration of geospatial information, and track the provenance of the data shown to an end user. Semantics can also improve visualizations and querying of geospatial data. Semantics can also support crowdsourcing of geospatial data, particularly to track identity through name and property changes over time. Several recent workshops on geospatial semantics have emphasized the interest in the community on these topics. Of note are workshops organized by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) indicating a strong interest in standardization efforts in geospatial semantics. This special issue aims to synthesize the recent trends in research and practice in the area of geospatial semantics.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Combining semantic information with more traditional representations and standards for geospatial data
* Exploiting semantics to enhance visualizations of geospatial information
* Use of semantics to support geospatial data integration and conflation
* Semantic mashups of geospatial data
* Semantic provenance of geospatial data (e.g., PROV)
* Semantics for mobile geospatial applications
* Geospatial linked open data
* Managing privacy of personal geospatial data and whereabouts through semantics
* Combining semantic web standards (W3C) with geospatial (OGC) standards (e.g., GML)
* Format for representing geographical data (e.g., GeoJSON)
* Semantics for crowdsourcing geospatial information
* Semantics for exploiting geospatial information in social network platforms
* Scalable reasoning with semantic geospatial data
* Real world applications of semantic geospatial frameworks

GUEST EDITORS

* Yolanda Gil, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
* Raphaël Troncy, Multimedia Communications Department, EURECOM

IMPORTANT DATES

* Call for papers: September 20, 2014
* Submission deadline: January 31, 2015
* Author notification: mid-April 2015
* Publication: third quarter of 2015

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

The Journal of Web Semantics solicits original scientific contributions of high quality. Following the overall mission of the journal, we emphasize the publication of papers that combine theories, methods and experiments from different subject areas in order to deliver innovative semantic methods and applications. The publication of large-scale experiments and their analysis is also encouraged to clearly illustrate scenarios and methods that introduce semantics into existing Web interfaces, contents and services.

Submission of your manuscript is welcome provided that it, or any translation of it, has not been copyrighted or published and is not being submitted for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should be prepared for publication in accordance with instructions given in the JWS guide for authors. The submission and review process will be carried out using Elsevier's Web-based EES system. Upon acceptance of an article, the author(s) will be asked to transfer copyright of the article to the publisher. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. Elsevier's liberal preprint policy permits authors and their institutions to host preprints on their web sites. Preprints of the articles will be made freely accessible on the JWS preprint server. Final copies of accepted publications will appear in print and at Elsevier's archival online server.