Introduction slides from the 5th International Workshop on Location and the Web at WWW2015, Florence, Italy. http://dhere.de/locweb2015/

1. LocWeb 2015
5th International Workshop on Location and the Web
at
WWW 2015
Florence, Italy
43°46′55″ N 11°14′54″ E

3. Organizers
Dirk Ahlers
NTNU
Trondheim, Norway
Bruno Martins
University of Lisbon, IST and
INESC-ID
Lisbon, Portugal
Erik Wilde
Siemens
Berkeley, USA

4. Programme Committee
• Luca Aiello, Yahoo! Labs, Spain
• Keith Cheverst, Lancaster University, UK
• Arjen de Vries, CWI, Netherlands
• Max Egenhofer, University of Maine, USA
• Claudia Hauff, Delft University,
Netherlands
• Andreas Henrich, University of Bamberg,
Germany
• Christopher Jones, Cardiff University, UK
• Carsten Kessler, CUNY, USA
• Mareike Kritzler, Siemens, USA
• Chandan Kumar, OFFIS, Germany
• Vanessa Murdock, Bing, USA
• Kjetil Nørvåg, NTNU, Norway
• Clodoveu Davis Jr., Federal University of
Minas Gerais, Brazil
• Francisco J. López-Pellicer, Universidad
Zaragoza, Spain
• Ross Purves, Universität Zürich,
Switzerland
• Martin Raubal, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• Massimiliano Ruocco, NTNU, Norway
• Mark Sanderson, RMIT, Australia
• Johannes Schöning, Hasselt University,
Belgium
• Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University, UK
• Tim Schwartz, DFKI, Germany
• Rainer Simon, AIT Austrian Institute for
Technology, Austria
• Torsten Suel, NYU Poly, USA
• Bart Thomee, Yahoo! Labs, USA
• Christoph Trattner, Graz University of
Technology, Austria
• Yana Volkovich, Barcelona Media, Spain
• Xing Xie, Microsoft Research Asia, China

5. LocWeb 2015
• Location-aware information
access
• Cross-cutting issue in Web
research
– Search, retrieval, analytics,
mining, extraction, mobility,
apps, services, systems
• Interdisciplinary perspective
• Discuss and develop the
role of location

6. Schedule
9:00 – 10:30 Session 1
• Opening
• Keynote: Chatty, Happy, and Smelly Maps
Daniele Quercia
• Reconnecting Digital Publications to the Web using their Spatial Information.
Ben De Meester, Tom De Nies, Ruben Verborgh, Erik Mannens and Rik Van de Walle.
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Session 2
• Verification of POI and Location Pairs via Weakly-Labeled Web Data.
Hsiu-Min Chuang and Chia-Hui Chang
• The Role of Geographic Information in News Consumption.
Gebrekirstos G. Gebremeskel and Arjen P. de Vries.
• Discussion on Open Questions
• Closing
12:30 Lunch

7. Contact
• http://dhere.de/locweb2015/
• @locweb
• #locweb2015
• #www2015

8. Session I

9. Keynote
Chatty, Happy, and Smelly Maps
Daniele Quercia

10. Session II

11. Discussion

12. Florence Location Details
• Location is interesting and useful
• Cities are exciting
• Location (use) is highly local
• Details can be surprising
• Understand the city?
• What did you discover?

19. Open Issues
• What is exciting?
• What is difficult?
• What is challenging?
• What should we work on?

20. Thoughts for LocWeb201*
• What did you expect, what new things did
you learn?
• Things you liked (not?) at LocWeb?
• Room for improvement?
• Particular ideas for next edition?

21. Follow-up
• http://dhere.de/locweb2015/
– Linking papers from ACM DL and WWW
• Make slides available, please!
– And send link
• @locweb
• Work on open issues

22. Keep in touch!
LocWeb 2015
Florence, Italy
43°46′55″ N 11°14′54″ E
http://dhere.de/locweb2015/
@locweb