PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

UDMS'99

21st Urban Data Management Symposium

Venice, Italy,  21-23 April 1999

Scope of the UDMS: UDMS, Urban Data Management Society, is a Society
which organizes international symposia at various locations in order
to promote the development of Urban Information Systems in Europe. The
aim of UDMS is to provide a forum for people to discuss new
approaches, to consider new

technologies and to share practical experiences in the field of urban
data management. After three years of collaboration within JEC, UDMS
is back!

The objectives are therefore to improve local government through urban
data management, to increase knowledge and professionalism and to
spread information and develop cooperation in this field within the
European Community and Europe as a whole. This year, the general theme
is
"Information Technology in the service of local government planning and
management", and the symposium is sponsored by the Provincial
Government of Venice, Italy.

For this event, we are especially looking for papers, tutorials and
posters on the following topics:

- Organisation of the technical services of  local authorities
- Cadastral systems
- Shared use of geographic information
- Metadata services clearing house
- Environmental information in urban context
- Public Service Delivery: the role of local authorities and private
companies
- Portable and mobile GIS
- Integrating GIS into an urban information system
- Augmented urban reality
- New technologies for local service delivery and for the technical
services of the local authorities
- Groupware for urban planning and municipal management
- Cooperative urban information systems
- Tele-geoprocessing and using of telecommunications for urban
management and monitoring
- Using Intranet and Extranet technologies
- Urban Environment Monitoring
- GIS for public participation and information to citizens
- Forum for citizen discussions.

Contact Persons:

Board of UDMS:
Massimo Rumor (President) Padua, Italy, <rumor@dei.unipd.it>
Robert Laurini (Vice-President) Lyon, France, <laurini@if.insa-lyon.fr>
Jørgen Rasmussen (Treasurer) Odense, Denmark, <ras@kmd.dk>
Ken Jones (Program Coordinator) Oslo, Norway, <ken@sn.no>
Theo Bogaerts (Past President) Delft, The Netherlands,
<E.Fendel@geo.tudelft.nl>

National Representatives: Antonio Arnaud, Portugal,
<ama@di.fct.unl.pt> Jerzy Gazdzicki, Poland Josef Hojdar, Czech
Republic, <hojdar@mbox.vol.cz> Michael J. Kevany, USA
<mkevany@plangraphics.com> Dave King, United Kingdom,
<dking@V-E.anglia.ac.uk> Arto Nuora, Finland,
<arto.nuora@kuntaliitto.fi> Erich Wilmersdorf, Austria,
<wil@adv.magwien.gv.at>

Submission: People interested to submit a paper for this symposium,
must proceed as follows. For plenary sessions, the full text must be
sent, and for parallel sessions, only an abstract, together with a
Curriculum Vitae.  Those documents must be sent to the UDMS executive
secretary: Mrs E.M. Fendel, Department of Geodesy, Delft University of
Technology, Thijsseweg 11, NL - 2629 JA Delft, The Netherlands; fax :
(+31) 15 278 2745; e-mail e.m.fendel@geo.tudelft.nl by January 10,
1999.

-------------------------IMPORTANT DATES----------------------------

Paper submission deadline: January 10, 1999
Notification of acceptance: January 30, 1999
Camera ready paper due: March 15, 1999
UDMS'99 dates:          April 21-23, 1999