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Digital Gazetteer Research and Practice Workshop
A 2 1/2-day workshop for the presentation, discussion, and summarization of current issues and opportunities in digital gazeteer research and practice. Convened by the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Redlands Institute. Sponsored by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the Army Research Office.
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07 December 2006 17:30
to 09 December 2006 18:00 |
| Where | Upham Hotel, Santa Barbara, California, USA |
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The workshop will focus on the role of digital gazetteers in georeferencing applications, starting with overviews of the state of the art and current activities, and leading to a consensus on the opportunities and directions for collaboration and the advancement of a research and practice agenda. Roughly 35 participants have been selected through a combination of open call and invitation. Ample time will be allocated to demonstrations, and to plenary and small-group discussion.
The workshop will have three focus areas:
- Components of gazetteer services
- Georeferencing as a process
- Interoperable gazetteer services
Pleiades community members Ruth Mostern and Tom Elliott are presenting.
This workshop is part of a project focused on strategically enhancing the human and scientific infrastructure of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). It involves a partnership between the University of Redlands (UR, the lead institution), The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB, research partner), Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI, corporate partner), and NGA. Within this program of collaboration, professionally-oriented graduate education, learning materials development, and basic research in geographic information science (GIScience) will be linked through a number of initiatives designed to streamline the flow of knowledge and experience from research and education activities to practical implementation by NGA's professionals.