5th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities

Will be held in conjunction with ACM SIGSPATIAL 2021 in Beijing, China (online event)

Program

Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Location: Zoom meeting
Meeting ID: 912 4538 3557
Passcode: 060866

The workshop proceedings are available in the ACM Digital Library.

The virtual conference will be run from 14:00pm to 18:00pm (CET) , November 2, 2021.

The program is as follows (CET time zone):

14:00 - 14:15 - Opening Remarks and Announcements

Session 1

14:15 - 14:40 - From Viewsheds to X-Sheds: Remediating Historical Experience through Immersive Environments
Hedren Sum, Nanyang Technological University
Stephen Whiteman, University of London

14:40 - 15:05 - Using Digital Cartography and Feminist Geocriticism in Literary Studies - A Proposal
Jyothi Justin, IIT Indore
Nirmala Menon, IIT Indore

15:05 - 15:30 - Spatial Named Entity Recognition in Literary Texts: What is the Influence of OCR Noise?
Caroline Koudoro-Parfait, Sorbonne Université
Gaël Lejeune, Sorbonne Université
Glenn Roe, Sorbonne Université

15:30 - 15:55 - A Geospatial La Sfera: Navigating the Renaissance in the Mediterranean
Caterina Agostini, Princeton University
Carrie Beneš, New College of Florida

15:55 - 16:10 - Break

Session 2

16:10 - 16:35 - Feeding a Gazetteer
Sinai Rusinek, Haifa University
Nitzan Gado

16:35 - 17:00- Developing an Urban Gazetteer: A Semantic Web Database for Humanities Data
Vincent Ducatteeuw, Ghent University

17:00 - 17:25 - Linked Places in World Historical Gazetteer
Karl Grossner, University of Pittsburgh
Ruth Mostern, University of Pittsburgh

17:25 - 17:50 - Discussions

17:50 - 18:00 - Closing Remarks