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The Vespucci Initiative

for the Advancement of Geographic Information Science

is announcing the 5th

Specialist Meeting

Ole Jacobi, 1990

Las Navas del Marques, Spain - 2012

May 2-4, 2012
"Conceptualising European Landscapes Across Languages, Cultures, And Disciplines"

ESF Exploratory Workshop - SCH

Facilitators: Nicolas Burenhult, David Mark, Werner Kuhn, María Catedra

The workshop will explore the issues of landscape in language and culture, and will examine ways to facilitating transdisciplinary research on European landscapes. The following is an initial list of workshop goals:

Discuss results of relevant previous research;
Exchange ideas about methods for elicitation of information about landscape concepts and its representation in ontologies;
Discuss relevant theories of landscape from various disciplines;
Enhance and critique a conceptual framework for factors that influence categories and terms for landscape features and components;
Discuss ways to facilitate transdisciplinary research on this topic;
Discuss ethical issues and feedback and value to communities;
Prioritize future research topics and target languages.