Theme and proposed topics

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together the growing community of researchers and practitioners working in the field of geographic information retrieval to discuss further progress within the field and potential future research strands. Examples of topics that are particularly relevant include, but are not confined to:

  • architectures for geographic search engines;
  • spatial indexing of documents and other media resources;
  • extraction of geographical context from documents and geo-datasets;
  • geographical annotation techniques for geo-referenced media;
  • design, construction, maintenance and access methods for geographical ontologies, gazetteers and geographical thesauri;
  • geographical query interfaces for the web and geo-spatial libraries;
  • visualising the results of geographic searches; and
  • relevance ranking for geographical search.

     

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