OSGeo Journal already has an ISBN (right?) and publishing proceedings in our own journal probably makes sense. Perhaps conference attendees are just encouraged to submit their papers through the OSGeo Journal's existing processes, rather than try to coordinate a special issue, etc...
i.e. try to keep it simple and use existing mechanisms as much as possible... - Dan<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/2/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul Ramsey</b> <<a href="mailto:pramsey@refractions.net">
pramsey@refractions.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">There was also a desire on the part of questioners that the published
<br>proceeding have an ISBN. How far down this path do we go? (I say all<br>this, BTW, in the fullest expectation that I am *not* going to<br>organize this, that some volunteer will step up and say "*I* will<br>ensure all the academic participants go home happy.")
<br><br>P<br><br>On 2-Jun-07, at 1:21 AM, venka.osgeo wrote:<br><br>> Markus Neteler wrote:<br>>> On 6/2/07, Paul Ramsey <<a href="mailto:pramsey@refractions.net">pramsey@refractions.net</a>> wrote:<br>> ...
<br>>>> I have received a couple questions recently about the publication of<br>>>> proceedings.<br>>>><br>>>> I believe FOSS4G 2006 may have committed to publish proceedings,<br>>>> though I don't know if they have done so yet.
<br>> ...<br>><br>> I had suggested publication of special issue of FOSS2006<br>> but nothing has happened as yet.<br>><br>>>> Is this important? Should this be something FOSS4GXX does, as a<br>>>> matter of course?
<br>>> I would appreciate it - this is something which remains.<br>>> See for example FOSS4G2004:<br>><br>> I would appreciate it too at least for selected papers<br>>> <a href="http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/grass04/papers.php">
http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/grass04/papers.php</a><br>>> Venka et al used the PKP Open Archives Harvester.<br>><br>> Apart from the online proceedings of full papers,<br>> selected papers of 2004 conference were peer-reviewed also
<br>> published in a regular scientific journal<br>> (International Journal of Geoinformatics).<br>><br>> The peer-reviewed papers are available online at<br>> <a href="http://www.j-geoinfo.net/Content/March2005/content1(1).htm">
http://www.j-geoinfo.net/Content/March2005/content1(1).htm</a><br>><br>> Perhaps selected papers could be published in the new OSGeo<br>> Journal.<br>><br>> Venka<br><br>_______________________________________________
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