[Geo4All] Good news! We now have five past FOSS4G Conference Academic Proceedings (full proceedings and individual papers) available online

[Antoni Pérez Navarro]

Very wonderful news!!!
Thank you!

2018-03-14 14:27 GMT+01:00 Charlie Schweik <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu>:

> Dear OSGeo and GeoForAll colleagues,
>
> I'm pleased to report that we now have full academic proceedings and
> individual papers from the last five FOSS4G conferences [1].
> The website is: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/
>
> This system provides readership (download) statistics and distribution
> maps (see attached). For instance, as of today, across all volumes we
> already have a total of *3,409 full proceeding and individual paper
> downloads worldwide*. Individual authors can see their individual
> download statistics by going to their individual paper entry (for example,
> see [2]). Scholarworks also feeds library database search engines.
>
> Some thanks are in order:
>
> 1. To *Barend Köbben, Venka Raghavan, and Sanghee Shin*, for their
> assistance and encouragement on publishing their edited volumes;
> 2. To each conference program committee for their service;
> 3. To *Andy Anderson, Franz-Joseph Behr, and Muhammad Yahya* for their
> efforts formatting and publishing one or more volumes;
> 4. To *Erin Jerome* at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst's
> Library's Scholarly Communication office
> <https://www.library.umass.edu/locations/sc/> who provides us the
> Scholarworks platform and terrific technical support at no cost to OSGeo
> or GeoForAll; and last, but not least,
> 4. To *Mohammed Zia* who is the person behind the scenes who contributed
> time and expertise to really make this happen.
>
> I apologize if I have forgotten someone!
>
> We hope that we can continue to publish FOSS4G Academic proceeding
> pre-prints, both global and regional events, through this system, to
> maintain a longterm repository of FOSS4G scholarship. *Proceeding editors
> of future conferences: Please contact us to coordinate.*
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Charlie Schweik for the FOSS4G Proceedings editorial team:
> (Mohammed Zia, Andy Anderson, and Franz-Josef Behr)
>
> ******************************
>
> [1] Nottingham, 2013; Portland, 2014; Seoul, 2015; Bonn, 2016; and Boston,
> 2017
>
> [2] As an example, the Boston 2017 FOSS4G paper by Agarwal and Rajan
> "Analyzing the performance of NoSQL vs. SQL databases for Spatial and
> Aggregate queries" has had 838 (!) downloads since Sept 22, 2017.  See
> https://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/vol17/iss1/4/
>
> --
> Charlie Schweik
>
> Professor
> Department of Environmental Conservation & School of Public Policy
> University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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