[Journal] Volume 11: I Think We're Done

Landon Blake sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com
Sat Dec 1 15:36:34 PST 2012


Eli:

I just remembered I forgot to fix the author credits on the articles
that you mentioned. I will take care of that.

Landon

On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Landon Blake
<sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Eli:
>
> Thank you for the review. My responses are below.
>
> Page 7: Removed all links except for the one to Scott's lab.
>
> Page 8 and Page 9: Links are embedded. I'm no longer listing out the entire URL.
>
> Page 11: The link to the deegree project was embedded in the text, but
> I forgot to make the text blue. This has been fixed.
>
> Page 15: I couldn't find the correct department link. The link now
> points to the main University of Wroclaw web page. I replaced the
> "GFOSS Hellenic Users Camp" link with the one you provided.
>
> Page 20: My intent was to link to the main Mapserver web site.
>
> Page 23: Fixed the link and the text.
>
> Page 26: The link is to the Korean Research Institute of
> Human Settlement as intended.
>
> Page 27: The link has been fixed to point to the Foss4g Korea 2012 web page.
>
> I'll respond to your general comment about hyperlinking in another thread.
>
> Landon
>
> On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Eli Adam <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us> wrote:
>>
>>>> Over the last two (2) days I completed the process of posting Volume
>>>> 11 articles to the blog and of adding hyperlinks to the PDFs.
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> I haven't announced publication yet. I wanted to give you guys one
>>>> last chance to review.
>>>
>>>
>>> I'll gladly click on every link and see that it doesn't 404 and seems like
>>> the plausibly correct website.  I can do that before Monday.
>>
>>
>> I've gone through about half of the pages.  While doing so, I ran into some
>> serious concerns since some of the links seem incorrect and not intended by
>> the original author.
>>
>> I don't think that the journal team should just be linking things throughout
>> the report on their own initiative.  We should only link what the author
>> wanted linked.  We run the risk of making big mistakes if we decide how to
>> link things.  Linking is very much part of authorship not editing.
>>
>> Eli
>>
>>
>> Below are my comments by page (if it is just a copy and paste from the page,
>> it means that the link doesn't work, otherwise, I've included a prefacing
>> comment).
>>
>> p. 7
>>
>> I don't link to the County website.
>>
>>
>> The
>> lab's web site is http://www.glel
>> .carleton.ca, and
>>
>>
>> p. 8
>>
>> To keep abreast of OSGeo news, watch
>> http://www.osgeo.org/news , or
>> subscribe to its RSS feed.
>>
>>
>> The current slate of Charter Members
>> (http://www.osgeo.org/charter_member
>> s)
>> now n
>>
>> p. 9
>>
>> of the OSGEO Live DVD,
>> which is documented at the OSGeo Live
>> History Wiki Page.
>>
>> p. 11
>>
>> no links for deegree?
>>
>> p. 15
>>
>> Are you sure this has the correct link?  Was it supplied by the author?
>>
>> Workshop 2011 "Spatial Analysis with
>> GRASS" took place in the Department of
>> Climatology and Atmosphere Protection,
>> University of Wroclaw.
>>
>> appears to link to wordpress main site.  Searching the internet, I find
>> this, http://www.osgeo.org/events/2011/grass-gfoss-greece.
>> From June 17 to 19, 2011 the first
>> GRASS and GFOSS Hellenic Users Camp
>> was held at Paou Monastery, in Pelion,
>> Volos, Greece.
>>
>> p. 20
>>
>> This links to mapserver.org, perhaps it should link to the French docs
>> referenced, http://mapserver.org/fr/index.html
>>
>> This include
>> help in translating MapServer
>> documentation, help in organizing
>> Francophone QGIS events, h
>>
>> p. 23
>>
>> The below links to the university instead of the meeting.  Also, the eighth
>> meeting appears to have happened in 2007, was this supposed to the twelfth
>> meeting http://events.unitn.it/foss4g2011?
>>
>> Eighth Meeting "degli Utenti Italiani di
>> GRASS": This was a three (3) day
>> conference targeted to researchers and
>> developers on the field of ope
>>
>>
>> p. 26
>>
>> The below links to something other than http://www.krihs.re.kr/.  Was the
>> link supplied by the author?
>>
>> Open API Project funded by
>> KRIHS(Korean Research Institute of
>> Human Settlement.)
>>
>>
>> p. 27
>>
>> FOSS4G Korea links to the wrong thing.  I think it should link to
>> http://www.osgeo.kr/tag/FOSS4G%20Korea%202012  This was so incorrect, I went
>> to the source, http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_Report_2011 I did not find
>> that this was linked at all.
>> I don't think that the journal team should just be linking things throughout
>> the report.  We should only link what the author wanted linked.  We run the
>> risk of making big mistakes if we decide to what something should link.


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