3rd International Workshop on Spatial Data Quality

28 - 29 January 2020 (Valletta, Malta)

Following previous successful workshops in 2015 and 2018, EuroGeographics and EuroSDR, in conjunction with OGC, ISO and ICA, are pleased to announce a third workshop on spatial data quality to be held in Valletta, Malta on 28th and 29th January 2020.

Technology is driving the Geospatial industry forward at an alarming rate with the introduction of new capture methods, improved technology and an increasing customer base that not only recognises the importance of spatial data but expects it to be readily available, accurate, trustworthy and free. Traditional methods of checking quality are now regarded as too expensive and the focus has shifted into ways of ensuring that quality is built into a method or process from the very beginning.

Many of the users know little about how data is produced but they have an expectation that the data is correct – almost to the point where they will blindly follow a satellite navigation system, even though the road signs may indicate that a route is unsuitable.

The onus is therefore on producers of traditional geospatial information to be able to produce high quality, authoritative data and communicate the trust, quality, provenance, relevance and content to all potential users – not just those in the professional community.

By bringing together producers, users, academia and software suppliers this two-day event aims at providing innovative and original contributions to the ongoing debate on spatial data quality.

The full announcement for the workshop is available here.

Workshop topics

• Quality evaluation of spatial data
• Quality certification and accreditation of spatial data
• Use of international metadata and quality standards
• Quality issues in spatial data infrastructures (e.g. national, INSPIRE)
• Communication/visualization of spatial data quality
• Spatial data usability / quality from the users perspective
• Impact of data quality on decision making
• Spatial data quality vs scales / resolution
• Applications of spatial data quality
• Quality of geospatial services
• Research trends in spatial data quality
• Practical implementation of spatial data quality assessment
• Quality Standards
• Software for measuring quality
• Quality of 3rd party data, crowdsourced / OSM etc.
• Authoritative data

Presentations

Presentation	Authors
Evaluating Quality of Spatial Data Coming from Multiple Suppliers. Case of the Finnish National Topographic Database	Mari Isomäki
Solutions for Encouraging Spatial Data Producers to Co-Operate in Harmonizing National Topographic Data	Nils Mesterton
Ohsome – OpenStreetMap data quality analysis	Martin Raifer, Michael Auer, Lukas Loos, Rafael Troilo, Fabian Kowatsch, Johannes Visintini and Alexander Zipf
Count based quality control of “As Built” BIM datasets using the ISO 19157 framework	Francisco Javier Ariza-López, José Rodríguez-Avi, Juan Francisco Reinoso and Iñigo Antonio Ariza-López
Thematic accuracy and completeness of topographic maps	Kiira Mõisja
Data quality in an e-Government perspective	Morten Borrebaek, Jim Yang and Anne Karete Hvidsten
GeoMetadata Labs platform: hosting infolabs for collaborative metadata curation	Benedicte Bucher and Marie-Dominique Van Damme
Data Maturity – Geo data growing up	Dan Warner from 1Spatial
Motivation and the need for the revision of ISO 19157:2013 Geographic information – Data quality	Ivana Ivanova, Torsten Svärd and Mats Ahlin
Understanding the importance of Provenance from the Perspective of a Geospatial Decision-Maker	Nikolaos Papapesios, Claire Ellul, Artemis Skarlatidou, Amanda Shakir and Glen Hart
Authoritative Geospatial Data and its quality	Joep Crompvoets
Evaluation of Height Models	Karsten Jacobsen
The quality control column set: An alternative to the confusion matrix for thematic accuracy quality controls	Francisco Javier Ariza-López, José Rodríguez-Avi, Virtudes Alba-Fernández and José L. García-Balboa
Creating Data Quality Models	Quality Knowledge Exchange Network
The Malta experience	Antonello Rizzo Naudi
Building Register – Basis for 3D Cadastre	Nikola Vučić and Damir Šantek
Rebuilding the cadastral map of The Netherlands, overall concept & communication on geometric quality	Eric Hagemans and Anouk Huisman – van Zijp
New common method for declaring data quality in Denmark	Lars Erik Storgaard and Jan Hjelmager
Data Quality for Use: A Linked Data approach	Erwin Folmer and Wouter Beek

Organizers

The entities participating in the organization of the Workshop are:

• Eurogeographics
• EuroSDR
• Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
• International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) Technical Committee (TC) 211 Geographic Information
• International Cartographic Association (ICA)

Programme Committee

• Jonathan Holmes (Chair Eurogeographics – Quality KEN)
• Carol Agius (Eurogeographics)
• Tamás Palya (Eurogeographics Quality KEN)
• Karin Mertens (EuroGeographics Quality KEN)
• Antti Jakobsson (Maanmittauslaitos Finland)
• Bart De Lathouwer (OGC)
• Ray Patrucco (OS Great Britain)
• Joep Crompvoets (EuroSDR)
• Agneta Engberg (ISO TC211)
• Serena Coetzee (ICA)
• Franz-Josef Behr (ICA)

Contact email for any queries jonathan.holmes@os.uk

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