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Betreff: Call for book chapter proposals submission on "OpenStreetMap in
GIScience: experiences, research, applications"
Datum: 2013-11-17 10:21
Absender: jokar.arsanjani@geog.uni-heidelberg.de
Empfänger: katja.haferkorn@fossgis.de
Dear Katja,
Could you please share our call for book chapters submission through the
FOSSGIS emailing list. Below this note the call is copied as well
as a PDF is attached to this email.
Thank you very much in advance.
Kind regards from Heidelberg,
Jamal
Apologies for cross posting
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Call for Chapter Proposal Submission
OpenStreetMap in GIScience: experiences, research, applications
Edited by
Jamal Jokar Arsanjani
GIScience, Institute of Geography,
University of Heidelberg, Germany
Alexander Zipf
GIScience, Institute of Geography,
University of Heidelberg, Germany
Peter Mooney
Department of Computer Science,
NUI Maynooth, Ireland
Marco Helbich,
Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning,
Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Introduction
The radical societal and Information Technology changes brought about by
the Internet and social media and the availability of inexpensive
portable satellite navigation devices has seen the traditional geodata
business model challenged and being changed radically. One of the key
driving forces in this change has been Volunteered Geographic
Information of which OpenStreetMap is one of the most famous projects.
OpenStreetMap was developed with the motto of ?creating a free
editable map of the world? in a collaborative manner so that people
and end-users are not forced to buy geodata in the traditional way and
subsequently be subject to restrictive copyright commitments.
OpenStreetMap started with a focus on mapping streets and roads. Since
then it has moved far beyond these entities and it now contains a very
rich variety of geographical objects all over the planet being mapped
by hundreds and thousands of volunteer contributors to the project.
The gradual evolution of the OpenStreetMap eco-system has been very
successfully. The project had a slow start but since 2007 there has
been an ever increasing rate of people joining the project with just
over 1.42 million registered users in November 2013. The academic and
industrial communities have recognized OpenStreetMap not solely based
on its rise to prominence in becoming an important distributor of
geodata but its wider success in growing a global community of people
who support the OpenStreetMap project. The OpenStreetMap community is
actively involved in much more than collecting geodata to build and
maintain its global database. The community is involved in:
humanitarian work in many regions; open source software development to support
OpenStreetMap and the GIS community; and in building a network of support
for those using and contributing to the OpenStreetMap project. In recent
years several scientific disciplines (e.g., geography, GIScience, spatial
planning, cartography, computer science, social science, and ecology)
have realized the immense potential of OpenStreetMap and it has become
the subject of academic research. The OpenStreetMap offered researchers a
unique dataset which is global in scale and a body of knowledge created
and maintained by a very large collaborative network of volunteers.
Research on OpenStreetMap has shown that it's geodata in some parts of
the world are more complete and locationally and semantically more
accurate than the corresponding proprietary datasets.
Objectives and Scope
The main objective of the intended edited volume is to seek experiences
using OpenStreetMap including cutting edge scientific investigations on
OpenStreetMap from different geodata and users perspectives as well as
developed and under development applications benefiting from
OpenStreetMap and the advancement and promotion of OpenStreetMap in
GIScience. Due to the complexity, inter- and trans-disciplinary nature of
collaborative mapping projects such as OpenStreetMap, submissions of
chapter proposals from an extensive range of scientific disciplines such
as geography, cartography, computer science, statistics, geographic
information science, sociology, urban planning, environment planning,
transportation, and civil engineering are highly welcome.
The edited book is scheduled to be published by Springer in its leading
series in GIScience ?Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography?
series, edited by William Cartwright, George Gartner, Liqiu Meng, and
Michael P. Peterson. For more detailed information about this series, we
refer to the Springer webpage, accessible via the following link http://www.springer.com/series/7418.
The book seeks to build a firm foundation for research work focused on
integrating OpenStreetMap. Chapters should address the following
research topics, however not limited to:
a) State-of-the-art and cutting-edge approaches for data
quality analysis and data fusion techniques in OpenStreetMap and other
Volunteered Geographic Information sources,
b) Investigations on understanding OpenStreetMap
contributors and the nature of their contributions,
c) Identification of patterns of contributions and
contributors in OpenStreetMap,
d) Desktop, online, and mobile applications of
OpenStreetMap in different domains (e.g. 3D, routing, traffic, disaster
management, health, crime, history, ecology, etc.),
e) Mining value-added knowledge and information from
OpenStreetMap,
f) Limitations and possibilities in the analysis of
OpenStreetMap data,
g) Integration of OpenStreetMap with commercial and
non-commercial geodatasets,
h) Emergence and evolution of OpenStreetMap across the
world,
i) OpenStreetMap?s contribution to GIScience.
Submission and Important Dates
All chapter proposals will be evaluated by a committee of experts before
author(s) are being invited to submit their full book chapters. Chapters
must not have been published elsewhere. Unpublished conference
presentations and extended conference works are acceptable. Published
conference presentations (e.g., in a proceedings volume) may be
acceptable if the full copyright can be transferred.
Submission procedure for chapter proposals (abstracts):
Length: 1-2 pages
Format: Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF
Figures/Tables: Must be legible (<300 dpi are accepted at this stage)
Important dates:
January 31, 2014: Chapter proposal submission deadline
February 28, 2014: Notification of chapter acceptance/rejection and
invitation to submit full chapters
May 30, 2014: Final chapter submission deadline
July 30, 2014: Acceptance/rejection notification sent to author(s)
September 30, 2014: Final revised chapter submission deadline
December, 2014: Expected publication of book
General:
Submissions must include the author's names, affiliation, mailing
address, and e-mail address. In the case of multiple authors, all
names, addresses, etc., must accompany the submission and a
corresponding author should be identified.
If submitting a published conference presentation (e.g., one that has
already appeared in a proceedings volume), the author(s) must provide
proof that the article's full copyright can be transferred.
Submissions must be sent as an e-mail attachment to Jamal Jokar
Arsanjani using the e-mail address listed above.
Notification:
Notification regarding the status of each proposal will be sent by
February 28, 2014 to all those who submitted a chapter proposal. At
that time, authors whose chapter proposals have been accepted will
also be e-mailed guidelines regarding full book chapter preparation.
Post-acceptance information:
The full book chapter deadline is May 30, 2014. Following receipt, full
chapters will be sent out for double-blind review. The Editors will make
the final decision regarding final acceptance of each book chapter. All
chapters with revision requests (if necessary) need to be completed by
September 30, 2014.
Inquiries should be directed to
Dr. Jamal Jokar Arsanjani
GIScience, Institute of Geography
University of Heidelberg
Berliner Straße 48
D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/personen/gis_arsanjani.html
jokar.arsanjani@geog.uni-heidelberg.de
Tel.: +49(0)6221 / 54 5572
Fax: +49(0)6221 / 54 4529
Heidelberg, Nov 14, 2014