1st International Scientific and Practical Conference "Cartography and Higher School"

Dear colleagues!

         On October 12 - 14, 2016, the Department of Geodesy and Cartography of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv holds the 1st International Scientific and Practical Conference "Cartography and Higher School".
         The organizer of the conference is Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
       Co-organizers: Institute of Geography of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Research Institute of Geodesy and Cartography, SSPE "Cartography", Eastern State Enterprise of Geodesy, Cartography and Geoinformatics, PJSC "Institute of Advanced Technologies", Association of Teachers of Geography of Ukraine, Ukrainian Geographical Society, Ukrainian Association of Mapping».
     Venue: 03187, Kyiv, 2 Glushkov Ave, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Faculty of Geography.

Organizational committee of the conference:

        Chairman – Datsenko Lyudmila Nikolaevna, d. Geogr. Mr., Professor, Head of the Department of Geodesy and Cartography; ua-dln@mail.ru; +38 050-334-37-99.
       Co-chairman – Anatoliy Molochko, Ph.D. geogr. Mr. Professor; molochko_am@ukr.net; +38 063-688-57-54.
       Secretary – Oreshchenko Andriy Vasilievich, candidate of geogr. Mr., researcher; logograd@ukr.net; +38 098-456-90-20, +38 095-311-69-98.
        Exhibitions will be organized in the days of the conference:
        - new educational geographic maps and atlases issued in Ukraine and abroad;
        - new educational literature on geography and cartography;
        - computer training programs and manuals on geography and cartography, electronic maps and atlases;
        - student diploma papers, the topics of which are related to the topic of the conference.
        Exhibits for these exhibitions should be sent to the Organizing Committee or brought to the conference in person.
        For nonresident participants it is planned to hold thematic excursions in Kiev.
        The conference is held under the informational support of the «Magazine of Cartography». He is included in the list of professional editions of Ukraine, in which the results of dissertation papers for the scientific degrees of the doctor and the candidate of geographical sciences may be published.
 

Participation in the conference:

        All those who wish to participate in the conference must send one scientific article (if any) and an application by e-mail to the secretary's address logograd@ukr.net until September 12, 2016. You can also apply personally to the Department of Geodesy and Cartography of the Faculty of Geography of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (2 Glushkov St., room 621, Kyiv).
     The article should meet the requirements for publications in professional scientific publications. Otherwise, only the topic of the report, without publication of the article, will be included in the conference program. The authors will receive their copy of the publication before the conference starts. The article is accompanied by a review on a standard form or in an arbitrary form.
        Publication in a collection of scientific works is paid (UAH 30 per page). The secretary of the organizing committee will inform you about the payment method. Participants of the conference, who do not plan to send an article, pay the registration fee of UAH 120. The conference may be part-time students. In this case, the author sends only an article. At the end of the conference, he will be sent a folder with the conference materials at the specified postal address.
        Participants from other cities may apply for accommodation in hotels. Accommodation is charged.

       Directions: Metro Station "Exhibition Center".

General requirements for publications

        1. The article should be original, that is, written in person or in co-authorship and not previously published in any printed or electronic publication.

        2. The article should correspond to the topic of the conference. It is included in one of 5 categories:
         - general and theoretical questions of cartography;
         - GIS technologies in cartography;
         - research of natural and social phenomena;
         - education and regional studies;
         - the history of cartography.

        3. The article size should be at least 7 full pages. The typical volume of an article for an international publication, which is indexed in the scientific basis of Scopus, is 4,000-6,000 words (13-20 pages). The size of the publication for journals included in the Web of Science is up to 7,000 words (22-25 pages).

        4. According to the resolution of the Presidium of the VAC "On Increasing the Requirements for the Professional Publications Listed by the Higher Attestation Commission of Ukraine" dated January 15, 2003, No. 7-05 / 01, the scientific article should have the following structural elements (with the allocation of their names in bold type , summarizing the main material, conclusions and perspectives of further research, a list of literature, two annotations in Russian and English, and not less than 10 (in Ukrainian), abstract in Ukrainian, keywords, introduction, initial preconditions, formulation of the aims of the article -15 keywords.

        5. The abstract in English must contain at least 2000 printed characters. 6. The authors of the published materials are personally responsible for the use of terms, the accuracy of the facts, quotes, their own names and other information.

Requirements for formatting

        1. The article is presented in Microsoft Word 97-2003 (doc) or Microsoft Word 2007-2010 (docx) format.

        2. It is better to submit drawings with separate files with TIFF or JPG extensions. Creating drawings by Word, Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator, Flash, MS Power Point or by hand is allowed. Drawings made in graphic editors are recommended to be rasterized to avoid compatibility issues. It is advisable to place a picture from a paragraph after the first link to it or on the next page in the text of the article.

        3. If the article contains drawings, tables or charts, you must additionally submit a PDF version of it.

        4. Formatting the text of the article: font Times New Roman, font size 14, interval 1.5, all fields - 2 cm). The indent indent for the entire article, except for the title of the article, is 0.7 cm. The latter is centered without a paragraph indentation.

        Sample correctly formatted article.

        Additionally, the following elements make the layout of the article more difficult:

        - automatic numbering and markers in the lists. In order to unify the appearance of all articles, it is recommended not to apply these functions; 
        - spaces at the beginning of the sentence; 
        - paragraph indents made by the tab; 
        - drawings and their names, inserted in the table and inscriptions; 
        - drawings inserted into Word documents; 
        - drawing textures by text; 
        - OLE objects; 
        - Words with Word; 
        - Hyperlinks in the text of the article, column breaks, lines and pages transmitted through copying from the Internet.