[Geo4All] OSM Science 2024 - Call for Papers

[Marco Minghini]

 Dear GeoForAll friends and colleagues,

We are happy to announce that the 2024 edition of OSM Science (i.e. the
scientific conference on OpenStreetMap) will be held as part of the State
of the Map 2024 conference [1], taking place on September 6-8 in Nairobi
(Kenya) and online simultaneously. A full day of sessions will be dedicated
to scientific research about, and with, OpenStreetMap (see past editions
[2-7]).

The Call for Abstracts is now open - see the full call at the end of this
email. The submission deadline is 10 May 2024. Authors are invited to
submit extended abstracts using the OSM Science 2024 Pretalx submission
system [8]. Questions directed to the Scientific Committee should be sent
to academic-sotm at openstreetmap.org.

Please feel free to distribute the call within your networks. We hope to
see you and learn about your research in person or online.

Best regards,
Yair & Marco, co-chairs of the Scientific Committee


====== OSM Science 2024: Call for Abstracts =======

OSM Science 2024 (aka the Academic Track of State of the Map) is a meeting
focused on the scientific study of OpenStreetMap. Its 7th edition will be
part of the State of the Map 2024 conference, taking place on September 6-8
in Nairobi (Kenya), where a full day of sessions will be dedicated to
scientific research about, and with, OpenStreetMap. The goal of OSM Science
2024 is to showcase the research and innovation of scientific
investigations into OpenStreetMap, while at the same time providing a
bridge to connect members of the OpenStreetMap community and the scientific
community through an open passage to exchange ideas and opportunities for
increased collaboration. We expect empirical, methodological, conceptual,
or literature-review-based contributions addressing any scientific aspect
related to OpenStreetMap, in particular, but not limited to, data
collection, integration and quality analysis in OpenStreetMap; contribution
patterns and the human/social dimensions of the project; integration of
Artificial Intelligence techniques and other applications in which
OpenStreetMap takes a central role.

* Submission Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts using the State of the Map
2024 Pretalx submission system [8]. Deadline for submission is 10 May 2024.

Abstracts should be between 800 and 1200 words. These limits will be
strictly enforced for a fair and balanced review process.

Abstracts must be scientifically rigorous, and the content should be
logically structured as follows (without the need to include subsections):
introduction/background, where the problem addressed is introduced; main
aim or purpose of the study; brief description of the methodology and
findings achieved; final discussion highlighting the scientific
contribution of the study and its practical benefits/implications.
Contributions describing mere applications of OSM data with no scientific
novelty/innovation will be rejected.

In the evaluation of proposals, the scientific committee will pay attention
to the reproducibility of the research (where this is applicable).
Reproducibility is ensured when the research makes all artifacts (input
data, computational steps, methods and code) openly available to obtain
consistent results. When available, the code shall be released under an
open source license. Additionally, precedence would be given to authors who
will present physically at the conference.

Abstracts are to be submitted online in plain-text format (no images or
figures).

Abstracts will be evaluated by the scientific committee and external
reviewers, when needed. Authors of selected abstracts will be invited to
deliver an oral presentation or a 5 minute lightning talk during the OSM
Science 2024 sessions at the conference, or to present a poster (in case a
poster session will be organised). Building on top of the successful
proceedings of previous editions of the Academic Track [9-13], authors of
the selected submissions will be required to submit extended abstracts.
These extended abstracts will be published in the OSM Science 2024
Conference Proceedings, each with a distinct Digital Object Identifier
(DOI) in Zenodo, an open access online repository.

The 2019 and 2020 Academic Track resulted in a special issue of the ISPRS
International Journal of Geo-Information [14]. Similarly, the scientific
committee may seek to further disseminate the contributions to this
conference by investigating the organization of a special issue in a
relevant, open access, scientific journal. In such a case, authors of the
selected abstracts will be invited to submit a full paper to this special
issue. Successful submissions may benefit from partial or full waiver of
publication fees.

[1] https://2024.stateofthemap.org/ <https://stateofthemap.eu/>
[2] https://2018.stateofthemap.org/academictrack/
[3] https://2019.stateofthemap.org/academic_programme/
[4] https://2020.stateofthemap.org/cfp/academic/
[5] https://2021.stateofthemap.org/calls/academic/
[6] https://2022.stateofthemap.org/calls/academic/
[7] https://osmscience.github.io/OSMScience2023/
[8] https://pretalx.com/state-of-the-map-2024-academic-track/cfp
[9] https://zenodo.org/record/3405431
[10] https://zenodo.org/record/3928675
[11] https://zenodo.org/record/5116434
[12] https://zenodo.org/record/7004791
[13] https://zenodo.org/records/10443403
[14] https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/OpenStreetMap
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