CFP: Workshop on Location and the Web @ WWW 2008

First International Workshop on Location and the Web in Conjunction with
the WWW 2008 Conference

Workshop URI: http://medien.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/LocWeb2008
Submission URI: http://www.easychair.org/LocWeb2008

Call for Papers

Introduction
The World Wide Web has become the world's largest networked information
resource, but references to geographical locations remain unstructured and
typically implicit in nature. This lack of explicit spatial knowledge
within the Web makes it difficult to service user needs for
location-specific information. At present, we are faced with discovering
spatial knowledge that is hidden in many small information fragments such
as addresses on Web pages, GPS coordinates embedded in photos, geographic
map sites, and geo-tags in user-generated content. Several emerging formats
that primarily or secondarily include location metadata, like GeoRSS, KML,
and Microformats, aim to improve this state of affairs, but the question
remains how to extract, index, mine, find, view, mashup, and exploit Web
content using its location semantics. This workshop brings together
researchers from academia and industry labs to discuss and present the
latest results and trends in all facets of the relationships between
physical locations and Web information.

Scope
The First International Workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb 2008)
focuses on all the geospatial aspects that are related to the Web. A
location-aware Web will spawn network effects among geo-referenced data
models and services, improving interoperability and interaction by
providing a well-defined location concept for the Web. We encourage
submissions that will enable mobile search, search in automotive, special
local search engines in specialized fields. The workshop will look at the
theme of location and the Web from a macro-level, interdisciplinary
perspective. In recent years, the topic of location appears in many
communities and is achieving great attention - user-generated content,
location-related multimedia Web content, Web scale geo-content mining, and
mobile search are only some of these developments.

Topics of Interest

Spatial Web information retrieval

Geographically focused search
Ranking for geographical search
Geographical annotation techniques for geo-referenced media
Spatial indexing of documents and media resources in the Web
Locative spam
Understanding and modeling location

Deriving location concepts from position information
Harvesting and mining location from different Web sources
Core location concepts and formal ontologies for location information
Location as first-level Web concept; location syntax and semantics
Geo-to-location: gazetteers and location entity information sources
Visualizing geographically referenced data

Geographical user interfaces for the Web
Visualizing and interacting with location-driven query results
Tools and applications of geographic mashups on the Web
Visualizing and accessing localized data on mobile devices
Location, mobility and the user

Mobile localized search
Mobile sensor data fusion and location
Geospatial media and applications

Web and mobile applications using geo-driven media and content
Extracting and using location in and from Web 2.0 communities
Social networking with location-aware social software


Submission Instructions
We accept original and unpublished papers that are not under review
somewhere else. We accept long papers (8 pages), short papers (4 pages),
and demos (2 pages). For paper formatting, please refer to the general
WWW2008 instructions, which are available at
http://www2008.org/submissions/ (please use the submission instructions for
refereed papers). Paper submission uses the same service as WWW2008 and is
located at http://www.easychair.org/LocWeb2008.

Important Dates
Submission Deadline: Feb 01, 2008
Acceptance Notification: Mar 01, 2008
Revised Manuscript Due: Mar 15, 2008
Workshop Date: Apr 22, 2008

Organizational Details
Workshop URI: http://medien.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/LocWeb2008
Submission URI: http://www.easychair.org/LocWeb2008

Organizers

Susanne Boll (University of Oldenburg)
Christopher Jones (Cardiff University)
Eric Kansa (UC Berkeley)
Puneet Kishor (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Mor Naaman (Yahoo!, Inc.)
Ross Purves (University of Zurich)
Arno Scharl (MODUL University Vienna)
Erik Wilde (UC Berkeley)