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I think Anthony makes a good point here that is worth listening to. This letter is well intentioned, but I think it mixes up ideas.
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<div>Two point worth mentioning as follow up. </div>
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<div>One: I’m an open source advocate, but I think picking on ESRI Press in this way is not helpful. As I understand it, ESRI don’t expect editorial control of content when you use them and they have in the past published several GIS text books at a far cheaper
price than any other publisher would offer—and in full color. So yes, the branding is an issue from some points of view. But being pragmatic, the result has been that many more people could afford to buy GIS text books. This is not an entirely bad outcome
and the issue is far from being black and white. (Though I concede that these days I don’t know why we would use any publisher at all since we should be able to publish free ebooks instead.). I also concede that from some points of view this gives ESRI a
marketing advantage. But I just wanted to point out that the impacts of this have not been wholly negative. </div>
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<div>Two. Repeatability in science is very important, but very difficult, though we should aspire to it and work diligently towards it. Open source software has a role to play here. But we are far behind the more successful practices used in communities
such as genomics, computational physiology, particle physics and others that use fully repeatable computational workflow engines or Virtual Laboratories (and not just open source code). We REALLY should be getting our own house in order before we start blaming
others. I can provide references if it helps here, but suffice is to say that all GIScience — including Open GIScience is a very long way off the pace of current best practice for repeatability. The major problem here is that we have not built the more complex
workflow systems needed to support open science, rather than because a vendor acts in a particular way. </div>
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<div>I do agree with the issues around pseudoscience, weak science and commercially-sponsored science. These are directly harmful and where we see EVIDENCE of these practices, we need to call them out. </div>
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<div>I read somewhere recently that the difference between a prophet and a zealot is that a prophet chastises because (s)he loves the community, whereas a zealot chastises because (s)he loves to chastise. Lets be careful how we come over, or our important
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On 25/07/2018, at 9:25 AM, María Arias de Reyna <<a href="mailto:delawen@gmail.com">delawen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">that I have to raise this issue through an open letter.</span><font face="Helvetica Neue"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> But if I
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</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">for Scholarly publications of Scientific Associations. I am hopeful and confident that that they all will do this for the future.</span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I am not a native English speaker, so please help refine this</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">letter correctly. I want us to look at the future not focus on mistakes made in past . Some mistakes have been made and I understand that this is corrected. We are all
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</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">. So let us not focus on past mistakes but look at ideas on how we can strengthen the independent peer review frameworks</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">for Scholarly publications of Scientific Associations in the future.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The International Cartographic Association (ICA) is my organisation for which</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I have volunteered for the last 15 years and continuing . I have great respect for everyone in this great global community . The SDG book is a community effort (not
any individual’s book project) . I have requested from the start (as soon as I came to know) for openness and transparency in decision making for selecting the publisher. esp. as this book is on UN SDG . I understand that ICA has now corrected the mistake
. Everyone makes mistakes and it takes courage to acknowledge and correct the mistakes .Compassion and forgiveness are important values .</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I am very grateful that ICA has listened to my concerns and rectified this . So I don’t have any issues with ICA or any colleagues in ICA. We might have difference in
opinions on some issues and having free and open discussions is in my humble opinion the best way to learn each others perspectives and find best solutions to move forward.</span></p>
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We are very fortunate in the Geospatial domain to have many reputed Scientific Associations and organisations (ICA, IGU, ISPRS, IEEE-GRSS, IAG etc) who have over many decades provided strong leadership in advancement of geo science.</span></p>
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</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">through a GIS vendor’s press then there is potential issues with independent peer review and ensuring scientific quality. It is only natural that any GIS vendor publication
press to have vested interests in promoting their products and</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">agenda. It also makes it easy for the vendor to get endorsement for their</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">products from scientific and professional organisations using this route. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Independent
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</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">some vendors even starting to trademark “ science” for marketing/sales of their</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
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</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Science is not a commodity to be marketed or sold by any vendor owners! I am very sad and disappointed to see this degrading of science happening. Scientific organisations
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the light of the </span></i><a href="http://mapyear.org/" id="m_8730954388621952008LPlnk430064" class="m_8730954388621952008OWAAutoLink" target="_blank"><span style="color:#e4af0a"><i><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">International
Map Year (IMY)</span></i></span></a><i><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">, the
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</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">highlighting the value of cartography by “mapping” the
</span></i><a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/" id="m_8730954388621952008LPlnk307766" class="m_8730954388621952008OWAAutoLink" target="_blank"><span style="color:#e4af0a"><i><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">UN
sustainable development goals</span></i></span></a><i><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">.</span></i><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> Building upon this,
The ICA community started work on a book on UN SDG Mapping</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">building upon the posters of the various commissions on this [2]. This is a great community initiative developed with inputs from all colleagues in commissions of the
ICA. The Open Source Geospatial Commission colleagues also contributed our inputs for this. When the book project was announced, I did my best to contact colleagues to contribute to this in good faith. I didn’t have the faintest idea that it was being planned
to be published through a properitary GIS vendor publication press! </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">As soon as I came to know about this, I did contact Menno -Jan with my concerns and requested him that as this is a community book project to please allow open discussions
and keep the community updated [3] . I was very surprised that there was no open and transparent discussions on selecting the book publisher was done.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">From an email from Anthony Robinson on 16th July 2018, I understand now that ICA is not proceeding with the vendor GIS publication press (Esri press)</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
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</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">we need to be learn lessons from this mistake and not repeat this in future</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">We
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I fully respect the right of individuals publishing their personal work [1] in any publication house that they wish. But as officers of Scientific Organisations, esp. in times
of some vendor owners doing marketing/sales on “Science” , I request all colleagues to be careful not to do anything that will undermine independent peer review process.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I am suggesting some initial ideas that we all can take as a community to help reduce this problem in the future</span></p>
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<li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">All Scientific </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Associations and organisations should </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">ensure
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<li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">It is important that GIS scientific associations/organisations take strong moral stand against taking sponsorship/royalty etc
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">for scholarly publications from all GIS vendors . Independent peer review system is the fundamental aspect of science. So I am humbly requesting all Scientific organisations
to</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">not use
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</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">any GIS vendor controlled press for publishing scholarly outputs (edited books etc).</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">GIS scientific organisations should not</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">tak</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">e</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
any sponsorship or royalty for scholarly publications (</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">books, journals etc) from any GIS vendors . If a scientific association takes</span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">agrees to publish scholarly publications (edited books etc)</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
through the vendor’s press then there is potential issues with independent peer review and ensuring scientific quality. It is only natural that any GIS vendor publication press to have vested interests in promoting their products and agenda. It also makes
it easy for the vendor to get endorsement for their products from scientific and professional organisations using this route. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Independent peer review is the fundamental aspect of science
and we need to ensure all steps to protect this.</span></span><br>
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<li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Officers of Scientific Organisations and Editors of all GIS journals </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">declare
any conflict of interest with any vendors (funding/sponsorship/<wbr>royalties etc received from any GIS vendors currently or in the past) to ensure transparency and good practices.They should not support any vendors interest directly or indirectly. Scientific
organisations should not endorse any specific vendor products etc as “Science” and take strong moral stand against marketing of products as “Science’ by any vendor owners!</span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I am concerned with the wider degradation of science and education happening in different sectors. This is a moral issue and needs all organisations globally in science and
education working together.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size:12px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">It is the fundamental </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">duty of all </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Officers
of Scientific Organisations</span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">to guard and protect independent peer review frameworks</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">
</span><font face="Helvetica Neue"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">for Scholarly publications of Scientific Associations. I am hopeful and confident that that they will do this for the future.</span></font><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Best wishes,</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Suchith</span></p>
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<span style="color:#454545">[1] <a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/group/geospatial-ig/post/open-letter-importance-scientific-freedom-and-public-good" id="m_8730954388621952008LPlnk527628" class="m_8730954388621952008OWAAutoLink" target="_blank">
<span style="color:rgb(228,175,10)">https://www.rd-alliance.org/<wbr>group/geospatial-ig/post/open-<wbr>letter-importance-scientific-<wbr>freedom-and-public-good</span></a></span></p>
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<span style="color:#454545">[2] https://<a href="http://icaci.org/maps-and-sustainable-development-goals/" id="m_8730954388621952008LPlnk925436" class="m_8730954388621952008OWAAutoLink" target="_blank"><span style="color:#e4af0a">icaci.org/maps-and-<wbr>sustainable-development-goals/</span></a></span></p>
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<span style="color:#454545">[3] <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geoforall/2017-June/003790.html" id="m_8730954388621952008LPlnk76817" class="m_8730954388621952008OWAAutoLink" target="_blank">
<span style="color:rgb(228,175,10)">https://lists.osgeo.org/<wbr>pipermail/geoforall/2017-June/<wbr>003790.html</span></a></span></p>
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<span style="color:#454545">[4] <a href="https://esripress.esri.com/display/index.cfm?fuseaction=display&websiteID=254&moduleID=0" id="m_8730954388621952008LPlnk619170" class="m_8730954388621952008OWAAutoLink" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#e4af0a">https://esripress.esri.com/<wbr>display/index.cfm?fuseaction=<wbr>display&websiteID=254&<wbr>moduleID=0</span></a> </span></p>
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