Keynote Talk

International Workshop on Place-related Knowledge Acquisition Research

Abstract

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【 摘 要 】

As the call for this workshop stated: "Place has become a hot topicin GIScience". But what is place, and what are the implications ofdeveloping place-based methods? In my talk, I set out an agenda forplace-based methods, and particularly for retrieval based on place.In doing so, I explore how unstructured text and tagged images can,firstly, inform methods which seek to take account of notionsrelating to place. Secondly, I illustrate how retrieval methods takingaccount of place can be developed using such insights, and discusssome successes (and failures!) in work developing such techniques.Speaker’s info:Ross Purves is a lecturer in the Department of Geography at theUniversity of Zurich in Switzerland. Previously he worked in theDepartment of Geography at the University of Edinburgh. Hisresearch focuses on two areas - environmental modeling andGeographic Information Retrieval. He has been involved, at variouslevels, in a variety of funded (and unfunded) projects in these areas.The TopIce project focuses on the influence of terrainrepresentation on large-scale environmental modeling and itscontribution to uncertainty of model results. The Swiss NationalScience Foundation funds the project. SPIRIT (Spatially-AwareInformation Retrieval on the Internet) focused on the developmentof a spatially aware search engine, and was funded under the ISTprogram of the European Commission. Project Tripod is alsofunded under the IST program of the European Commission, andwill investigate the automatic captioning of images, based on theirlocations. While in Edinburgh, Ross was involved in a long-runningprogram of research investigating paleo-climate change inPatagonia, through a variety of techniques. He is a strong believerin delivering high-quality teaching in universities, and was involvedin the e-MapScholar project, which sought to develop innovativeand customizable methods for the production of GIScience relatedonline learning materials.