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GIScience: Vespucci Summer Institute
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Vespucci Summer Institutes: join a week on interoperability or the 10-year conference!
URL: http://vespucci.org/
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Week 1: June 3 to 9, 2012: Interoperability 360.
Interoperability 360 intends to discuss the theoretical and practical aspects of the interoperability of systems, services, data, organisations, people, and disciplines from a holistic perspective. Traditional notions of syntactic and semantic interoperability offer only a limited view of what is needed in practice, and do not prepare you for applications in the real world. To fill this gap, the week draws on real-life experience in a global setting, contrasting an approach backed by legislation (INSPIRE), with one based on voluntary contributions (the Global Earth Observatons System of Systems or GEOSS).
Week 2: July 1 to 7, 2012: Spatial Information in Science and Society (10th Anniversary Conference)
After ten successful years of Vespucci Institutes, we invite all alumni for free and newcomers with a 50% discount on the regular rate to join us in exploring the growing role of spatial information in the sciences and in society at large.
The week will consist of keynote addresses by invited speakers, short presentations from participants, and ample discussion time. We are targeting a special issue of an international journal or a book as an archival outcome and “guide” for the next decade of Vespucci.
Note: Every year since 2004, IGERT Trainees have attended Vespucci Summer Institutes. Unfortunately, dedicated funds for this are no longer available but participation should be just as valuable!
