The Twelfth International Conference on Geographic Information Science will be held in Leeds, United Kingdom, on 13-15 September 2023 (with workshops and welcome reception on 12 September). It is being hosted by the University of Leeds in collaboration with the University of Glasgow. GIScience is the flagship conference in the field of Geographic Information Science and the UK conference will continue the highly successful series that started in 2000.

The GIScience conference series regularly brings together more than 300 international participants from academia, industry, and government to discuss and advance the state-of-the-art in geographic information science. 12 September 2023 is dedicated to Workshops and Tutorials. The main conference (13-15 September) consists of two refereed paper tracks: full papers and short papers (for full details see the call for papers). Further information about the conference series can be found at giscience.org.

GIScience proceedings are planned to be published in LIPIcs, the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics series. LIPIcs volumes are peer-reviewed and published according to the principle of open access, i.e., they are available online and free of charge. Each article is published under a Creative Commons CC BY license, where the authors retain their copyright. Also, each article is assigned a DOI and a URN. The digital archiving of each volume is done in cooperation with the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek/German National Library. A number of high-standing international conferences have already made the move to LIPIcs.