CV

This is the CV for Prof R E Sieber, always under construction (6 year window)

Refereed Publications

Beaudreau, P., P. Johnson and R. Sieber. Accepted. Strategic choices in developing a Geospatial Web 2.0 application for rural economic development. Journal of Rural and Community Development.

Wellen, C. C. and R. E. Sieber. Accepted. Towards an inclusive semantic interoperability: the case of Cree hydrographic features. International Journal of Geographic Information Science.

Johnson, P. A. and R. E. Sieber. Accepted. Increasing access to and use of geospatial data by municipal government and citizens: The process of ‘Geomatization’ in rural Quebec. Journal of Urban and Regional Systems Association.

Johnson, P. and R. E. Sieber. 2011. Motivations Driving Government Adoption of the Geoweb. GeoJournal. Online First™, 11 May 2011, 1-14

Sieber, R. E. and C. C. Wellen. 2011. Reply to Shi: Geometry is not the sole source of spatial relations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108.

Johnson, P. and R. Sieber. 2011. An Agent-Based Approach to Providing Tourism Planning Support. Environment and Planning B 38(3): 486-504.

Sieber, R. E., C. C. Wellen, and Y. Jin. 2011. Spatial cyberinfrastructures, ontologies, and the humanities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108(14): 5504-5509.

Johnson, P. and R. Sieber. 2011. Negotiating constraints to the adoption of agent-based modeling in planning. Environment and Planning B 38: 307-321

Johnson, P. A., R. E. Sieber, N. Magnien and J. Ariwi. 2011. Automated web harvesting to collect and analyse user-generated content for tourism. Current Issues in Tourism 1747-7603. First published on: 16 February 2011

Johnson, P. and R. E. Sieber. 2010. An Individual-based approach to modeling tourism dynamics. Tourism Analysis 15 (3): 517-530.

Klinsky, S., R. E. Sieber and T. Meredith. 2010. Connecting local to global: Evaluating an environmental atlas and an ecological footprint for public engagement in sustainable development planning. Professional Geographer 62(1): 84-102. (I am corresponding author)

Klinsky, S., R. E. Sieber and T. Meredith. 2009. Creating Local Ecological Footprints in a North American Context. Local Environment 14(6): 495-513. (I am corresponding author)

Sengupta, R. and R. E. Sieber. 2007. Geospatial Agents, Agents, Everywhere. Transactions in Geographic Information Science 11(4): 483-506.

Sieber, R. E. 2007. Spatial Data Access by the Grassroots. Cartography and Geographic Information Science 34(1): 47-62.

Sieber, R. E. 2006. Public Participation Geographic Information Systems: A Literature Review and Framework. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 96(3): 491-507.

Sieber, R. E. 2004. Rewiring for a GIS/2. Cartographica 39(1): 25-39.

Sieber, R. E. 2003. Public Participation GIS Across Borders. The Canadian Geographer 47(1): 50-61.

Sieber, R. E. 2002. Geographic Information Systems in the Environmental Movement, In W. Craig, T. Harris and D. Weiner, ed. Community Empowerment, Public Participation and Geographic Information Science. London: Taylor and Francis. Pp. 153-172.

Sieber, R. E. 2000. Conforming (to) the Opposition: Geographic Information Systems in the Conservation Movement. International Journal of Geographic Information Systems 14(8): 775-793.

Sieber, R. E. 2000. GIS Implementation in Grassroots Organizations. Urban and Information Systems Association Journal 12(1): 15-29.

 

Online and Digital Publications

Li, Jimmy and R. E. Sieber. 2011. Ontology based Graphical User Interface (GUI). Sourceforge. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ichdgui/

Aberley, D. and R. E. Sieber. n.d. PPGIS Guiding Principles.

 

Research Reports

Sieber, R. E. and K. Dingle. 2010. Geospatial temporal evolution of mines. Report to Cree Band Council. Montreal, Qc: McGill University. 20pp.

Wellen, C. 2008. Wemindji Ontology and Placenames and Oral History Mapping: a Report to the Wemindji Band Council. Montreal, Qc: McGill University.

Spitzberg, Daniel, Hannah Moffatt, Kristen Brewer, Blanka Fuleki, Naomi Arbit, and R. E. Sieber. 2006. Influencing Climate Change Policy: Environmental non-governmental organizations using virtual and physical activism. Project Report for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and for Equiterre and for ENVR 401. Montreal, Canada: McGill School of Environment. 62pp.

 

Conference Proceedings

Budhathoki, N. and R E. Sieber. 2011. What Motivates Governments to Adopt the Geospatial Web 2.0? Proceedings of Spatial Knowledge and Information - Canada (SKI-Canada) 2011, March 3-6 in Fernie BC, Canada. Vol. 1

da Silva, K., R. Sieber, R. Fischler. 2011. Unfolding Participatory Urban Design, Capturing Spatial Feelings and Emotions in Digital Space. Proceedings of Spatial Knowledge and Information - Canada (SKI-Canada) 2011, March 3-6 in Fernie BC, Canada. Vol. 1

Beaudreau, P., P. A. Johnson, and R. Sieber. 2011. Creating and Testing a Portable Template for Municipal-Level Adoption of the Geospatial Web 2.0. Proceedings of Spatial Knowledge and Information - Canada (SKI-Canada) 2011, March 3-6 in Fernie BC, Canada. Vol. 1

Brandusescu, A., R. Sieber, N. Schuurman. 2011. The use of geovisualization to public health in the context of open source applications and digital earths: an effective representation? Proceedings of Spatial Knowledge and Information - Canada (SKI-Canada) 2011, March 3-6 in Fernie BC, Canada. Vol. 2

Zhou, J., R. Sieber, M. Chandler and L. Soh. 2011. Using the Geospatial Web 2.0 to Improve Climate Model Accessibility. Proceedings of Spatial Knowledge and Information - Canada (SKI-Canada) 2011, March 3-6 in Fernie BC, Canada. Vol. 2

Sieber, R. E. 2010. A Model for the Participatory Geoweb. GIScience Biennial Conference, September 14-17. Zurich, Switzerland.

Sieber, R. E. 2010. Citizen Environmental Science and the Geospatial Web 2.0, Proceedings of the Microsoft Research Environmental Workshop, 23 pp.

Sieber, R. E., C. Wellen and Y. Jin. 2009. Integrating ontologies and schema for biographic and geographic databases. Proceedings of Spatial Knowledge and Information Canada, University of Saskatchewan.

Sieber, R. E. 2008. Participation, Governance and the Geoweb. GIScience, Park City, Utah, Sept. 23-26. Sieber, R. E. 2008. Participatory Geoweb: A Research Agenda. Proceedings of Spatial Knowledge and Information Canada, University of Saskatchewan.

Sieber, R. E. 2007. Geospatial ontologies and traditional ecological knowledge. Clermont-Ferrand, FR: Proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Analysis and Geomatics (SAGEO).

 

Television and Radio

Sieber, R. E. 2005. 10 interviews: Commentary on virtual protest of Greenpeace during the 57th meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Ulsan, S. Korea, with host Tim Belford on Quebec AM, CBC Radio 1, Quebec City, QC (June 20, 6:00-6:10 am, pre-recorded for broadcast later that morning); with host Lisa Laco on The Great Northwest, CBC Radio 1, Thunder Bay, ON (June 20, 6:15-6:25 am); with host Markus Schwabe on Morning North, CBC Radio 1, Sudbury, ON (June 20, 6:45-6:55 am); with host Terry MacLeod on Information Radio, CBC Radio 1, Winnipeg, MB (June 20, 7:00-7:10 am, pre-recorded for broadcast later that morning); with host Anne Budgell on Radio Noon, CBC Radio 1, St. John's, NFL (June 20, 7:10-7:20 am, pre-recorded for broadcast later that day); with host Randy Henderson on The Trailbreaker, CBC Radio 1, Yellowknife, NWT (June 20, 7:20-7:30 am); with host Martina Fitzgerald on Ontario Morning, CBC Radio 1, Ontario AM (June 20, 7:40-7:50 am); with host Shelia Coles on The Morning Edition, CBC Radio 1, Regina, SK (June 20, 8:15-8:25 am); with host Susan Elrington on On the Island, CBC Radio 1, Victoria, BC (June 20, 8:50-9:00 am); with host Rick Cluff on The Early Edition, CBC Radio 1, Vancouver, BC (June 20, 9:00-9:10 am, pre-recorded for broadcast later that morning).

 

Other Publications

Johnson, P. and R. E. Sieber. (forthcoming). Situated Adoption of Volunteered Geographic Information in Government. In Sui, Daniel, Sarah Elwood and Michael Goodchild (eds.), Volunteered Geographic Information.

Sieber, R. E., and C. C. Wellen. 2011. The role of geospatial technologies for integrating landscape in language: Geographic Information Systems and the Cree of northern Quebec. In Mark, David M., Andrew G. Turk, Niclas Burenhult and David Stea (eds.), Landscape in Language: Transdisciplinary Perspectives. pp. 381–393.

G. Eades and Sieber, R. E. 2010. Geospatial Information Technologies and the Representation of Cree Knowledge. Forthcoming. In Colin Scott, Peter Brown and Jessica Labrecque, Eds., Dialoguing Knowledges: Finding our Way to Respect and Relationship. Vancouver: UBC Press.

Johnson, P. A. and R.E. Sieber. 2008. Agent-based modeling: A dynamic scenario planning approach to tourism PSS. In S. Geertman and J. Stillwell, Eds., Planning Support Systems: Best Practices and New Methods. Berlin: Springer, 211-226.

Seaquist, J. and R. E. Sieber. 2007. GIScience, Sustainability and Pedagogy. In Göran Ewald and Ann Åkerman, Eds., Sustainable Development of Global Society: A Universitas 21 Teacher's Guide.

Civille, R. and R. E. Sieber. 1994. Civic Networking with Geographic Information Systems. Dr. Dobbs Source Book 19(14): 68-72.

Sieber, R. E. 1993. Book Review: Electronic Byways: State Policies for Rural Development through Telecommunications. Journal of the American Planning Association 59(3): 392-393.

 

Workshops

Sieber, R. E. 2010. Crowdsourcing citizen environmental science, Keynote, CRC-SI Conference. November 23-25, Melbourne, Australia

Sieber, R. E. 2010. Citizen Environmental Science and the Geospatial Web 2.0, Microsoft Research, July 14, Redmond, WA.

Sieber, R. E. 2010. Mashing up Participation: Public Engagement On the Geospatial Web. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada. Jan. 28.

Sieber, R. E. 2009. Subverting the Mapping Machine. TEDx Talks, Montreal, Canada. Nov. 5.

Sieber, R. E. 2008. Web Services for Chinese Historical Biographic and Geographic Databases. Harvard University, November 21-23.

Sieber, R. E. 2008. The Role for GIS in Language in Landscape. Language in Landscape Workshop (NSF-funded). Albuquerque, MA and Shiprock, AZ. Oct. 27-Nov. 1

Sieber, R. E. 2007. Preparing students for a post-computational world. Microsoft Research - Workshop on Computational Education for Scientists, September 27-28, Redmond, WA, USA.

Sieber, R. E. 2007. 3rd Global Knowledge Conference (GK3) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Dec. 11-13 (special guest of International Research and Development Centre)

Sieber, R.E. 2007. Geospatial ontologies and traditional ecological knowledge. Key Note Speech, International Conference on Spatial Analysis and Geomatics (SAGEO). Cleremont Ferrand, France. June 16.

Sieber, R. E. 2007. Advanced Community Economic Development for Information and Communications Technology, April 4. Center for Research in Information and Technology in Organizations, University of California, Irvine.

Sieber, R. E. 2006. Geospatial Ontologies for Indigenous Peoples. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, NL, November 29.

Sieber, R. E. 2006. PPGIS and Community Economic Development. Presentation at the International Centre for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Enschede, NL. October 25.

 

Conference Presentations

Chandler, M., L. Sohl, J. Zhou and R. Sieber. 2012. EdGCM: Educational Global Climate Modeling: Tools for Training the Climate Change Generation. Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Vancouver, Canada, February 16-20.

Sieber, R., A. Lussier, P. Quinn, and P. Johnson. 2012 Community Activism, Watershed Management, and the Geospatial Web 2.0. Annual Association of American Geographers meeting, NYC, February 24-28

Budhathoki, Nama R and Renee Sieber. 2011. GeoWeb from a Governance Perspective. Presentation at Association of American Geographers meeting, Seattle, USA, April 12-16.

Sieber, Renee. 2011. Volunteered Geographic Information: motivation or empowerment? Presentation at Association of American Geographers meeting, Seattle, USA, April 12-16.

Zhou, J. R. Sieber, M. Chandler and L. Sohl. 2011. Climate Models for the Education of Citizen Scientists. Presentation at Association of American Geographers meeting, Seattle, USA, April 12-16.

Sieber, R. E. 2010. Participatory Governance: Moving from PPGIS to the Participatory Geoweb. Presentation at Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington, DC, US., April 14-18.

Johnson, P. and R. Sieber. 2009. Mining the Web: User Generated Content Research. Travel and Tourism Research Association Canada. Tourism Away from the Mainstream. October 14-17, Guelph, Ontario.

Sieber, R. and H. Rahemtulla. 2009. The Participatory Geoweb. Paper presented at Royal Geographic Society (RGS-IBG) Annual Conference, Manchester, August 22-23.

Sieber, R., H. Rahemtulla, and A. Turner. 2009. Governance And The Geoweb. Poster at the 11th GEOIDE Annual Scientific Conference. May 27-29, Vancouver, BC.

Ricker, B. and R. Sieber. 2009. Citizens As Environmental Change Sensors: A Case Study Of Barbados. Poster at the 11th GEOIDE Annual Scientific Conference. May 27-29, Vancouver, BC. Winner of the Delegates' Choice Award at the Conference.

Sieber, R. E. 2009. Onotology-driven cyberinfrastructures for the Spatial Social Sciences and Humanities. Presentation at Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, NV, US., March 22-27.

Sieber, R. E. 2009. Neogeographers meet Paleogeographers. Session Chair and Panelist. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, NV, US., March 22-27. Sieber, R. E. 2009. Philosophy for GIScience. Panelist. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, NV, US., March 22-27.

Sieber, R. E. 2009. Discussant, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and GIScience Research (II). Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, NV, US., March 22-27. Wellen, C. and R. Sieber. 2009. Applying ontologies to GIS for cultural preservation. Presentation at Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, NV, US., March 22-27.

Sieber, R. E. 2008. Introduction to the Participatory Geoweb. Presentation at the 10th GEOIDE Annual Scientific Conference. May 28-30, Niagara Falls.

Sieber, R. E. 2008. The Participatory Geoweb: A Research Agenda. 2008 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, USA, April 15-19.

Fong, G., R. E. Sieber, A. Behnke Kinney, P. Bol, M. Fuller. 2008. Integrating Chinese Historical Databases: Issues, Challenges, and Directions. Association for Asian Studies. April 3-6, Atlanta, USA.

Wellen, C. C. and Sieber, R. E. 2007. Indigenous Spatial Ontology Application, Association of American Geographers Annual Conference. San Francisco, CA, April 17-21.

Sieber, R. E. 2007. Public Participation GIS: Metrics of Empowerment. Panel presentation (with M. Laituri, chair, S. Elwood, D. Weiner, M. Wilson, and L. Ramasubramanian, discussant), Association of American Geographers Annual Conference. San Francisco, CA, April 17-21.

Sieber, R. E. 2007. Identifying geo-spatial information to obtain culturally protected area status and advocate for land claims. Revealing Ways of Knowing in GIS Workshop. Montreal, QC. February 17-16.

Sieber, R. E. and C.C. Wellen. 2006. Participatory Indigenous Spatial Ontology. GIScience Biennial Conference, Munster, Germany, Sept. 20-23.

Sieber, R. E. and C.C. Wellen. 2006. Participatory geo-spatial information technology using ontologies and folksonomies. American Association of Geographers Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, March 15-18.

Stoncius, J. and R. Sieber. 2006. Mapping Place: Creating Geovisualization of Cree Narrative Traditions. Second Annual Faculty of Science Undergraduate Research Conference. October 20, Montreal, QC.

 

Grants

2012-2013 Humanities Dissemination & Making Publics using the Resource Description Framework (RDF) (Marc Milner, PI, with 3 co-applicants) $66,000

2011-2012. Broadening public participation in climate modeling ($25,000, NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Columbia University).

2010-2011 Amazon EC-2 Cloud Services (Kalacksa, PI) $4,000

2010-2012. Integrating Non-Expert Voices and Ontologies in the Digital Humanities. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Eun Park, Principal Investigator (PI). Approved but not funded.

2009-2017. Spatial Data Marketplace. Joint spatial data infrastructure for Australia and New Zealand Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information (CRCSI-2). $61,000,000AU. Sieber, one of three international advisors

2010-2012. Projet Geoweb: Geoweb for Land Use Decision Making in QC. $300,000. Renee Sieber, PI, 5 partners agencies.

2009-2012 FQRSC "Art et nouveaux médias: vers une redéfinition hybride du lieu" Christina Ross, PI.

2010-2011 Spatial and Environmental Injury Surveillance. GEOIDE. Nadine Schuurman, PI, $80,000

2010-2011 Communicating results of climate change research: development and deployment of tools for data management, access, integration and understanding. CFCAS. Gail Chmura, PI.

2008-2012 Participatory Geoweb for Engaging the Public on Global Environmental Change. GEOIDE. Renee Sieber, PI, $950,00 +$250,000 matching funds from partners 9 co-investigators, 18 partners.

2008-2009 Integrating across Space, Time and Gender in the Humanities for Chinese Historical, Literacy and Geographic Databases. SSHRC International Opportunities Fund. Grace Fong, PI, $74,830, 3 co-investigators.

2004-2009 Environmental Protection, Culture and Development at the Cree Community of Wemindji, James Bay, Quebec, Wemindji Cree First Nation and the McGill School of Environment. Community-University Research Alliance (CURA), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Colin Scott, PI, $998,636, 10 co-investigators.

2003-2009 Geocommerce for Community Economic Development. Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Sieber (PI) $398,000.

2003-2007. E-commerce, Geographic Information Systems and Community Economic Development, SSHRC, $131,354. Sieber, PI.