Report on the Sixth International Workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb 2016)

Abstract

For describing and understanding the real world, location is an important factor. Consequently, it also appears in many Web applications and mining approaches as a crosscutting issue. LocWeb 2016 continues a workshop series addressing issues at the intersection of location-based services and Web architecture and was held at WWW 2016. It combines geospatial search, information management, and Web architecture, with a main focus on location-aware information access. The workshop drew contributions from various fields, ranging from mobility analytics over new ways to understand cities to Web standards. LocWeb2016 had an interdisciplinary combination of contributions, with two keynotes and three long papers. We will briefly discuss the workshop theme and the contributions.