The keynote speech at PLATIAL in Salzburg, scheduled for September 2026, will explore the interplay between culture and place. It will examine how cultural institutions shape identities and perceptions while also analysing media representations of places. The discussion will highlight the impact of digital platforms on the construction of local and global images.
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W2GIS keynote speech: “Beyond GIS? The future of Cultural Geo-Analytics”
I look forward to giving this keynote speech next week at the 19th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W2GIS 2022). See the slides here. Photo by Samson Katt on Pexels.com Title: Beyond GIS? The future of Cultural Geo-Analytics Abstract: Cultural geo-analytics (CGA) is an emergent area that studies the geographical dimension … Continue reading W2GIS keynote speech: “Beyond GIS? The future of Cultural Geo-Analytics”
Webinar • Demarcating place in cultural geo-analytics • 17 Feb 2022
I look forward to giving this ISPRS (online) talk in a few days: Webinar Series by ISPRS TC IV: Geospatial Knowledge Representation and Analytics Date/Time: February 17th, 2022; 9:00 PCT, 12:00 EST, 17:00 UTC, 18:00 CET ISPRS WG IV/2 (Ontologies, Semantics, and Knowledge Representation for Geospatial Information) Webinar Moderator: Dr Margarita Kokla (National Technical University … Continue reading Webinar • Demarcating place in cultural geo-analytics • 17 Feb 2022
Tracing Search Geographies with Google Trends: 6 lessons learnt
In a new article that will be presented at AGILE later this year, my colleagues Simon Scheider, Bas Spierings, and I explore the potential of Google Trends to understand how the search interest in geographic areas changes in space and time, looking at the Amsterdam metropolitan region as a case study [read the full paper … Continue reading Tracing Search Geographies with Google Trends: 6 lessons learnt
Computing the spirit of place
This is a talk that I gave at University of California, Santa Barbara in 2014. The core idea was (and still is) to harness spatial user-generated content, big data, et similia to characterise places at a large scale. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZw5Bmu23QY