what follows are Tom Elliott's notes on a workshop
Digital Gazetteer Research and Practice
Workshop website: http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/nga/ncgia.html
(updated ca. 12 December to include links to participants, bios and position papers ... slides forthcoming).
An international workshop, 7-9 December 2006
Convened by:
- National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA), University of California, Santa Barbara
- Redlands Institute, Redlands California
Sponsored by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
Held at Upham Hotel, Santa Barbara, CA
Friday, 8 December
- 8:30 - 9:00 Workshop organization and goals (Mike Goodchild & Linda Hill)
SESSION 1: COMPONENTS OF GAZETTEER SERVICES
Session chair: John Frank, Metacarta, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- 9:00 - Allen Carroll (National Geographic)
- 10:30 - Bruce Gittings (University of Edinburgh)
- 11:30 - Response/comments by two discussants: Beth Driver (NGA) and Ray Larson (University of California, Berkeley)
SESSION 2: GEOREFERENCING AS A PROCESS
Session chair: David Bodenhamer, The Polis Center at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
- 2:00 - David Mark (State University of New York at Buffalo)
- 3:30 - Chris Jones (University of Cardiff)
- 4:30 - Response/comments by two discussants: Mike Dobson (Telemapics) and May Yuan (University of Oklahoma)
Saturday, 9 December
- 8:30 - Plan for Breakout Session, Michael Goodchild
SESSION 3: INTEROPERABLE GAZETTEER SERVICES
Session chair: James Reid, EDINA, University of Edinburgh)
- 9:00 - Greg Janée (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- 10:30 - Ruth Mostern (University of California, Merced)
- 11:30 - Response/comments by two discussants: Paul Ell (Queen’s University, Belfast) and Tom Elliott (University of North Carolina)
- 1:30 - Breakout Session I?
- 2:30 - Group reports from Breakout Session I
- 3:30 - Breakout Session II?
- 4:30 - Group reports from Breakout Session II
- 5:00 - Concluding discussion and future directions
