• 08:30 – 09:00    Registration / Welcome to GIO2014
• 09:00 – 09:15    Intro
• 09:15 – 10:00    Keynote I: (Chair: Ben Adams)
  • Brent Hecht.The Mining and Application of Diverse Cultural Perspectives in Volunteered Geographic Information and User-Generated Content
• 10:00 – 10:30    Coffee break
• 10:30 – 11:15   Paper session I (10+5min per speaker) (Chair: Grant McKenzie)
  • Andrea Ballatore. Exploring the geographic information universe: The role of search technologies
  • Benjamin Adams, Mark Gahegan, Prashant Gupta and Richard Hosking. Geographic Information Observatories for Supporting Science
  • André Bruggmann and Sara Irina Fabrikant. Spatializing a Digital Text Archive about History
• 11:15 – 12:30    Observatory Demos and Panel (Chair: Krzysztof Janowicz)
• 12:30 – 13:30    Lunch
• 13:30 – 14:15    Keynote II: (Chair: Krzysztof Janowicz)
  • Sven Schade.‘Post-Normal’ Geospatial Science
• 14:15 – 15:00    Paper session II (10+5min per speaker) (Chair: Tomi Kauppinen)
  • Auriol Degbelo and Werner Kuhn. Five General Properties of Resolution
  • Heidelinde Hobel and Andrew U. Frank. Exploiting Linked Spatial Data and Granularity Transformations
  • Bandana Kar and Rina Ghose. Is My Information Private? Geo-Privacy in the World of Social Media
• 15:00 – 15:30    Discussion about kinds of GIO (incl. infrastructure, community involvement, funding) (Chair: Ben Adams)
• 15:30 – 16:00    Coffee break
• 16:00 – 17:00    Break out groups on GIO research agenda (Chair: Tomi Kauppinen)
• 17:00 – 17:30    Wrap-up of the results of the groups / joint writing  (Chair: Grant McKenzie)
• 18:00 – 20:00    All-Workshop Icebreaker

Registration for the workshop and the conference is now open at the GIScience2014 web site (early bird until August 11th, 2014).

The workshop on Geographic Information Observatories 2014 is organized by Krzysztof Janowicz (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA), Ben Adams (University of Auckland, NZ), Grant McKenzie (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) and
Tomi Kauppinen (University of Bremen, Germany and Aalto University School of Science, Finland)