September 6, 2011
GCOE Seminar Supplemental (Vol. 20)
For this supplemental GCOE Seminar, we will hold a special lecture at the Research Center for Disaster Mitigation of Urban Cultural Heritage, given by Professors Paul Longley (Department of Geography, University College London, UK) and James Cheshire (Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, UK).
“People, places, and the practice of geographic information science”
Lecturers:
Professor Paul Longley （Department of Geography, University College London, UK）
Professor James Cheshire （Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, UK）
Time: 2011.09/06 (Tues.) 13:00-14:00
Place: Ritsumeikan University Research Center for Disaster Mitigation of Urban Cultural
Heritage, B1F, Conference Hall
* Please note: this is different from the usual time and place for the GCOE seminar.
Free attendance (No reservation required)
Co-sponsor: Private University Strategic Foundation Formation Research, “Comprehensive Research on Kyoto Craft Culture”
For presentation abstracts, please click “more” below.
【Abstract】
"People, places, and the practice of geographic information science"
At the core of geographic information science lie enduring organising principles and concepts that have developed using research methods that are robust, transparent, and scientifically reproducible. Yet it is also a science of real world problem-solving, which has come to prominence at a time in which the nature, volume and known provenance of geographic information (as well as the human activities that generate it) is profoundly changing. The first part of this presentation reflects upon these changes and the challenges that they present to GIScience, using examples taken from the three editions of the ‘Geographic Information Systems and Science’ textbook. The second part of the presentation develops some of these arguments in the context of ‘geodemographics’ – the analysis of people by where they live – and describes an extensive quantitative analysis of the naming practices used to identify people and places across the globe. Our conclusions speculate about relevance of naming practices in linking real and virtual identities, and their strategic importance in facilitating generalisations about social systems.
【Profile】
Paul Longley(B.Sc., Ph.D., D.Sc., AcSS)
Professor of Geographic Information Science at University College London, UK. His publications include 14 books and more than 125 refereed journal articles and book chapters. He has held over 40 research grants and has supervised more than 35 Ph.D. students (most funded by research councils). He is a co-editor of the journal Environment and Planning B and a member of five other editorial boards . He has held ten externally-funded visiting appointments and given over 150 conference presentations and external seminars. He teaches Geographic Information Systems and Science and is a co-author of the best-selling book of that name.
James Cheshire
James studied Physical Geography at the University of Southampton, gaining a B.Sc. Hons. (First Class) in 2008. Soon after James joined CASA and the School of Geography to undertake a PhD supervised by Paul Longley and Pablo Mateos. The project is an ESRC CASE award in conjunction with ESRI (UK) titled "Measuring and monitoring population diversity and spatial concentration: GeoWeb2.0 Solutions". James` research interests include regionalization methods, GeoWeb2.0 and contemporary surname distributions.
