[Ica-osgeo-labs] Open Access Book on Open Geospatial

Thu Dec 12 02:57:55 PST 2013

I'm having a really busy week but I'll try to answer this email as soon as possible as I find it deserves one.

Sergio Acosta y Lara
Sección Sistemas de Información Geográfica
Dirección Nacional de Topografía
Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas
URUGUAY
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De: "Suchith Anand" <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
Para: "Charles Schweik" <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu>, "Suchith Anand" <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
CC: "Bethany Bradley" <bbradley at eco.umass.edu>, "Victor Olaya" <volayaf at gmail.com>, ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
Enviados: Sábado, 23 de Noviembre 2013 16:45:28
Asunto: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open Access Book on Open Geospatial

Charlie,

Thank you for all these excellent info.  My answers below

1. I will try to understand more on the  green and gold options esp for book publication . I will also email the Open Access list  to get their advice on the best option for Open Access Book publication keeping in mind our 4 requirements. For the repository i would think we are already following the green option. 

2. It is great news on the book from Victor Olaya on this. I also cannot read it. It will be really useful resource for the whole worldwide community  if we can translate this into English . Me and Sergio are now working with a good group of kind volunteers to translate gvSIG Batovi documentation to English and making them available in ELOGeo. 

Victor- will you be open to having a translation of your book to English and making it available to wider audience. If so, we will be pleased to work with you and get this translated.

3.  I will send you the draft structure of the edited volume we are planning. It will be great to have you and any others interested involved. It will have a focus on the applications side and we will be keen to get the wide expertise spread (from environment modelling  to transportation) within our network to showcase the excellent range of application areas to students and readers. Thanks for informing me on the self publication option for print lulu.com for those wishing hardcopies. I think that is a good option to consider for those wanting hardcopies as well.

4.  Thank you for offering the option to translate the exercises from your book to OSGeo-related open source project solutions (Bethany will gets attribution, and with her permission ). Could i request, anyone interested in this  to email Charlie and we can start work on this. This will be good way to speed things.

Suchith 

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From: Charles Schweik [cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]
Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2013 1:08 PM
To: Suchith Anand
Cc: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org; Victor Olaya; Bethany Bradley
Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open Access Book on Open Geospatial

Suchith,

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
Hi All,

Earlier this week i  participated in the  10th Anniversary of the Berlin Open Access Declaration http://openaccess.mpg.de/286432/Berlin-Declaration

I have been in discussion with colleagues at Nottingham on starting work on Open Access Book on Open Geospatial covering both applications and theory (with examples using OSGeo stack and open data). Amir is working on the initial content draft which i will share with anyone interested and invite all interested to contribute.

We would also like to get advice, feedbacks,ideas on Open Access Book publication. We have four main requirements

So if you have ideas on this, please let me know.

A couple ideas/reactions:

1) For those who might be interested in the ideas around Open Access, look at Peter Suber's recent (open access) book on the topic [1]. I find the ideas of "gold" and "green open access" quite interesting. Ultimately, I think we want to build the content in our ica-osgeolab repository as one of these.

2) Re an Open Access book on Open Geospatial, there already is one introductory volume (different, I think than what you are suggesting, Suchith) by our colleague Victor Olaya [2]. The challenge for me is that I cannot read it. It would be wonderful if someone in our network who reads and writes both Spanish and English could contact Victor and consider doing a translation if he would be open to that (I think he would be). That translation would be, I think, a huge step forward.

3) I'd be interested in seeing the structure of the edited volume you are considering and would be happy to be involved somehow if you think I can help.

4) I envision a complementary volume or set of "lab manual" volumes that embrace the move toward the flipped classroom model where there are exercises teaching students various open source GIS functions and then pose "analytic puzzlers" that they are to do as exercises on their own. My colleague at UMass, Bethany Bradley and I have a full volume of this kind of thing using proprietary GIS for one of the courses we teach and that we offer over the self-publishing site LuLu.com so our students can order hardcopies [3]. They work really well. One possibility to jump-start would be for someone in our network translate these same exercises so they use OSGeo-related open source project solutions rather than a proprietary solution, and then make these available in our repository (making sure Bethany gets attribution, and with her permission to do so). If anyone is interested in this idea and would be interested in a project where they help to make these translations, let me know.

Cheers,

Charlie

[1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/open-access
[2] http://volaya.es/cursosig.htm
[3] http://tinyurl.com/og4rb8e

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