On 26th  January 2024 9am, Simon is invited to give a talk at the RAM Colloquium TU Dortmund: What is a spatio-temporal model good for? Validity as a function of purpose and the questions answered by a model The concept of validity is a cornerstone of science. Valid methods make science “scientific”, while invalid methods…

Dr. Simon Scheider is giving a keynote talk at the “Metadata Matters” knowledge symposium organized in collaboration with EuroSDR, GeoE3 and PLDN. Main event: Metadata Matters, What Role Does Linked (Meta)Data Play in the Geospatial World? When: 9:30AM CET, 6 September 2023 Where: Sound and Vision (Beeld en Geluid), Hilversum, The Netherlands Registration: Please, visit…

Our research paper titled “Semantic complexity of geographic questions – A comparison in terms of conceptual transformations of answers” received the award for the second-best full paper at the AGILE 2023 conference. Download the full open-access version of the paper here.

The workshop on geographic question-answering (GeoQA) will be held in conjunction with the International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience) in Leeds, United Kingdom, for half a day (13:30 -17:00) on September 12, 2023. We welcome submissions of vision/position papers on geographic question-answering as well GeoQA tools and datasets to be presented at the workshop. Read more at the workshop homepage.

QuAnGIS application is at a prototype stage! A video of the first demonstration of the prototype is available here.

Simon is invited to give a talk on the 3rd of May 2022 at 16:15 at the University Bayreuth (Geospatial Big Data and Societal Transformations lecture series): https://www.geographie.uni-bayreuth.de/de/Veranstaltungen/GIB-Lecture-Series/index.html The talk is on “Valid statistics with amounts in geographic information” (will be streamed live).

Special Issue on  geographic artificial intelligence (geoAI) (KI – German Journal of Artificial Intelligence) Special guest editors (please contact us when planning to submit): Simon Scheider (s.scheider@uu.nl), Zena Wood (Z.M.Wood2@exeter.ac.uk), Kai-Florian Richter (kai-florian.richter@umu.se), Researchers in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Geography have been developing various points of contact in the past, with many possibilities of mutual benefit…

On the 28th of September 2021, Simon gave a keynote (video recording) about QuAnGIS kicking off the 11th international conference on geographic information science (GIScience 2021). The talk gives an overview of the particular challenges of question-answering (QA) with GIS in the context of Geography and the approaches taken so far in our project.  

Call for study participants

We cordially invite you to participate in a GIS online study.   This study is part of a research project named “Question-based analysis of Geographic Information with semantic queries (QuAnGIS)”. The project is funded by the European Research Commission (ERC) and situated at the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University. It aims…