The GeoLD 2021 was a full-day workshop that took place on June 7th, 2021 which was hosted virtually. It was co-located with the 18th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2021). This workshop invited papers covering the challenges and solutions for handling with GLD, especially for building high quality, adaptable, geospatial infrastructures and next-generation spatial applications. The workshop demonstrated the latest approaches and implementations and to discuss the solutions to challenges and issues arising from research and industrial organizations.
The GeoLD 2021 was a full-day workshop that took place on June 7th, 2021 which was hosted virtually. It was co-located with the 18th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2021).
The workshop started with article presentations and it continued for 3 sessions. The presented articles were as follows:
The workshop followed with the panel session. Rob Brennan moderated the panel session and Cassia Trojahn, Nicholas Car and Armin Haller were the invited panel mediators. They discussed the need and opportunities for modelling of spatial data on the web with open challenges for the next generation Geospatial Linked Data infrastructure.
Preface for GeoLD 2021: 4th Geospatial Linked Data Workshop
The workshop ended with the keynote talk of Krzysztof Janowicz who is a (full) professor for Geographic Information Science and Geoinformatics at the Geography Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He delivered an inspiring talk on \KnowWhereGraph: Thoughts on Designing and Utilizing a Knowledge Graph at the Human-Environment Interface". In this keynote, Krzysztof Janowicz introduced their ongoing work on 'KnowWhereGraph', a large-scale, pre-integrated, cross-domain knowledge graph with data at the human-environment interface, together with services to access this graph from within Geographic Information Systems. He discussed key design decisions, application areas in disaster relief and food supply and point out some of the key challenges for the next years to come.
Finally the workshop chairs wrapped up the sessions and closed the workshop.
In total, the workshop received fteen papers, 14 of which were accepted for presentation (2 long papers, 11 short papers and 1 demo). The workshop attracted papers both from industry and academia.
{ Beyza Yaman, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland { Mohamed Ahmed Sherif, University of Paderborn, Germany { Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, University of Paderborn, Germany { Armin Haller, Australian National University, Australia
Program Committee { Rob Brennan, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland
We would like to thank all the authors, reviewers, committee members and the invited speaker for their contributions, support and commitment for the workshop.
This research received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 801522, by Science Foundation Ireland and co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology [grant number 13/RC/2106] and Ordnance Survey Ireland.