Project Outputs

Wijegunarathna, K., Stock, K., & Jones, C. B. (2025). Large Multi-modal Model Cartographic Map Comprehension for Textual Locality Georeferencing. In 13th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2025) (Vol. 346, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics [LIPIcs], pp. 12:1–12:19), Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz‑Zentrum für Informatik. Christchurch, New Zealand, 26–29 August 2025.

Wijegunarathna, K., Stock, K., & Jones, C. B. (2025). Digital gazetteers: review and prospects for place name knowledge bases.  ACM Computing Surveys Vol. 58, No. 3 pp: 1-39.

Fernando, A., Stock, K., Morris, H.W., Wijegunarathna, K., Das, P., Procter, J., Ranathunga, S., Prasanna, R. & Jones, C.B (2025). The BioWhere gazetteer: A culturally enriched placename knowledge base for New Zealand. Presented at the 13th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2025), 26-29 August, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Stock, K., Wijegunarathna, K., Jones, C. B., Morris, H., Das, P., Medyckyj-Scott, D., and Whitehead, B. The BioWhere Project: Unlocking the Potential of Biological Collections Data. GI_Forum 2023, 11, 3-21.

Wijegunarathna, K., Stock, K., Jones, C.B., Wilton, A., Procter, J., Morris, J., Medyckyj-Scott, D., Morgan, F., Wieczorek, J. and Whitehead, B. (2022).  BioWhere – Georeferencing New Zealand’s Biota from Text. Poster presented at the New Zealand Geospatial Conference 2022, 29-30 August, Wellington, New Zealand.

Liao, R., Das, P., Jones, C.B. and Stock, K. (2022). Predicting distance and direction from text locality descriptions for biological specimen collections. 15th Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT) 2022, 5-9 September, Kobe, Japan.

Scott, J., Stock, K., Morgan, F., Whitehead, B. and Medyckyj-Scott, D. (2021). Automated georeferencing of Antarctic species. GIScience 2021, September 27-30. Read the Paper. Watch the Video.

We ran a mini-hackathon on biological specimen georeferencing at the Spatial Data Science Symposium on 14 December 2021, won by a team from the University of Melbourne. Click here for more details.