Call for Papers GSDI 12 World Conference

Abstracts for conference presentations should be 250-500 words in length and will be reviewed by the GSDI-12 Conference Program Committee. Authors are limited to a maximum of two conference paper abstract submissions, whether as lead or secondary author.

Presentations will be organized in the following tracks, but authors are invited as well to submit presentations that fall outside of these topical tracks.

High-quality submissions will be accepted for presentation at the conference. Abstracts and follow-up full articles will be published in a conference proceedings volume to be made available on CD. For follow-up full paper submissions, authors retain copyright in their work but will be required to agree to a Creative Commons License to help ensure continued global access to their work over time. All publications produced for the conference, including abstracts, full papers and presentation slides, will be openly archived eventually at http://gsdi.org/gsdiConferences

Fully Refereed Book

Full papers, consisting of 5,000-word manuscripts, will be reviewed by at least three members of the international GSDI-12 Peer Review Board. Manuscripts should describe original work in English that has not been published before.  High-quality submissions will be accepted for presentation at the conference and will be published in book form as a refereed conference document tentatively titled Spatially Enabling Society: Research, Emerging Trends, and Critical Assessment. Authors will retain copyright in their work but will be required to submit a Creative Commons License to help ensure continued global access to their work over time.

Any submissions not accepted for the book will be forwarded for consideration under the abstract review process for the conference and for the Special Issue of the International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructure Research. The special issue will accommodate scholarly articles that may be more case history based.

Full-length paper submissions for the book will be expected to address fundamental theory or research in any area of spatially enabling governments or society or any related area of spatial data infrastructure advancement.

Special Issue Of The International Journal Of Spatial Data Infrastructure Research (IJSDIR)

A post-conference special edition of the International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructure Research (IJSDIR) will be published. Full articles submitted to the conference proceedings will be reviewed and a limited number will be invited for submission to a full refereeing process after the conference. Articles adhering to the length and topical areas described under (2) above will be of the highest priority for consideration for this post-conference refereed publication. After revisions in accordance with the critiques of reviewers, most of the invited articles are likely to be included in a special issue of IJSDIR. The final document needs to adhere to the Article Formatting Requirements of the International Journal of SDI Research.