The colleagues from GIScience Dr Tessio Novack, Dr Michael Schultz, and Prof. Alexander Zipf, together with Dr Yair Grinberger from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, are editing a Special Issue of Transactions in GIS on Geographical and Cultural Aspects of Geo-Information – Issues and Solutions.
We are welcoming high-quality contributions related, but not limited, to the following topics:
- The formalization of geo-cultural contexts within GIScience methods
- Representation of geo-cultural contexts with GISystems
- Identifying geo-cultural effects on geo-information and vice versa
- Methodological developments in analyzing global heterogeneous datasets
- Geo-ontologies and their relations to culture and geography
- The application of machine-learning methods across diverse geo-cultural contexts
- Integration of data production procedures in methodological developments and applications
- The transferability of GIScience methods over different contexts
- Volunteered geographical information (e.g. OpenStreetMap) systems and methods for representing and capturing local knowledge
- Critical GIS, critiques of GIS, and their contributions to methodological development in GIScience
- Review of the state-of-the-art in addressing cultural and geographical peculiarities in GIScience.
The submission deadline is 15 January 2020.
Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the authors’ guidelines [1] and submitted via the journal’s submission system [2]. Please mark your manuscript as part of the special issue while submitting. All submissions will go through a peer-review process, in accordance with the regular requirements of Transactions in GIS. Questions and inquiries should be addressed to Dr. Tessio Novack: novack@uni-heidelberg.de
[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/14679671/homepage/forauthors.html