6th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities

Will be held in conjunction with ACM SIGSPATIAL 2022 in Seattle, WA, USA.

Program

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Location: Seattle, WA, USA

The workshop proceedings are available in the ACM Digital Library: https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3557919

The program is as follows (PDT time zone):

08:00 - 09:00 - Breakfast

09:00 - 09:15 - Opening remarks and announcements

09:15 - 10:15 : Keynote: Dual interactions between GIScience and the Humanities.

Ana Basiri

Ana Basiri

University of Glasgow

Petrus J. Gerrits

Petrus J. Gerrits

University of Glasgow

This talk will go through the practices of the interactions between GIScience and Geohumanities. We will share our experiences with several successful and unsuccessful projects we have been involved in the recent past.

10:15 - 10:40 - Coffee break

10:40 - 11:55 : Session 1

10:40 - 11:05 - Setting a Standard for Open and Collaborative Data Acquisition for Historical Cartography
Alexis Litvine, University of Cambridge
Hanae El Gouj, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté
Jeff Meyer, OpenHistoricalMap

11:05 - 11:30 - A Data Structure for Scientific Models of Historical Cities: Extending the CityJSON Format
Beatrice Vaienti, EPFL
Paul Guhennec, EPFL
Isabella di Lenardo, EPFL

11:30 - 11:55 - MapReader: A Computer Vision Pipeline for the Semantic Exploration of Maps at Scale
Kasra Hosseini, The Alan Turing Institute
Daniel C.S. Wilson, The Alan Turing Institute
Kaspar Beelen, The Alan Turing Institute
Katherine McDonough, The Alan Turing Institute

11:55 - 12:00 - Break

12:00 - 12:50 : Session 2

12:00 - 12:25 - Mapping migration regions and their evolution from population-scale family trees: What can they tell us about cultural identities and regions today?
Caglar Koylu, University of Iowa
Maryam Torkashvand, University of Iowa
Hoeyun Kwon, University of Iowa
Alice Bee Kasakoff, University of South Carolina

12:25 - 12:50 - Deep Mapping Middletown
James J. Connolly, Ball State University
John Fillwalk, Ball State University

12:50 - 13:00 - Wrap up discussion and closing remarks