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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Well, just wanted to make folks aware that there is an ongoing discussion in the GeoSciences about the publisher (MDPI) of this journal -- some of us
(me included) consider it a company that is there to make money foremost and does not care too much about scientific quality. If you want I can send you a summary of some of that ongoing discussion...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>¿? Is there something that the GeoForAll community should know? At least I personally do not understand this mail...<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">De:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> GeoForAll <geoforall-bounces@lists.osgeo.org> en nombre de b.j.kobben@utwente.nl <b.j.kobben@utwente.nl><br>
<b>Enviado:</b> viernes, 14 de febrero de 2020 7:53<br>
<b>Para:</b> Chaowei Yang; GeoForAll<br>
<b>Asunto:</b> Re: [Geo4All] CFP: ISPRS Intl Journal of Geo-Information (IJGI) - Special Issue about Geospatial Open Systems</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#212121">Mhwah, are you aware that this IJGI journal has at the moment a stunning total of 83 "special issues" open, out of which by quick glance 4 have "open systems/source/software"
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#212121">This journal I now consider a borderline predatory one, and will personally not do reviews nor write papers for anymore...</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121">On 14/02/2020, 07:09, "GeoForAll on behalf of Chaowei Yang" <<a href="mailto:geoforall-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">geoforall-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a> on behalf of
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">The ISPRS International
<i>Journal of Geo-Information</i> (<i>IJGI</i>) will publish a special issue about “Geospatial Open Systems”. This Special Issue intends to synergize insight about the state of knowledge of open systems scoping, design, implementation, deployment, use, and
sustainability for geo-information (geospatial) applications. Manuscripts that broaden and/or deepen insight into these topics are candidates for the Special Issue. </span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:8.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Scope: Open systems provide free access to geo-data and geo-information in a variety of geospatial domains, such as environmental science
and management, human dynamics, transportation planning and management, geo-information crowdsourcing, community organizing, and geosciences, among others. Open systems enable access for almost everyone, barring any illegal activity. Open systems might or
might not use open source software as part of the development efforts. Open knowledge systems now in development for various applications promise to transform how people make use of data, information, evidence, and knowledge. The Special Issue explores the
past, present, and future of open systems environments addressing data, information, and knowledge for geospatial applications. Any aspect of open geospatial data, information, knowledge, and software systems is a relevant topic as long as the topic is well
reasoned and developed in a thorough manner in line with <i>IJGI</i> guidelines. Prospects for development and use of geospatial open source software are relevant for consideration. Software applications addressing these topics are also part of the scope,
but the issue is not limited to these topics. </span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:8.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Please click the following link for additional information including submission instructions.</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Prof. Timothy Nyerges, U of Washington</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Prof. Piotr Jankowski, San Diego State University</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Prof. Wenwen Li, Arizona State University</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Prof. Chaowei Yang, George Mason University</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="background:white">Chaowei Phil Yang, Ph.D.,</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Director, NSF Spatiotemporal Innovation Center; www.stcenter.net</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Co-Director, Center of Intelligent Spatial Computing for Water/Energy Sciences; http://cisc.gmu.edu/</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Professor, GGS, GMU, http://ggs.gmu.edu/</span><br>
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<p style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#323130;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Yang, C., Yu, M., Li, Y., Hu, F., Jiang, Y., Liu, Q., Sha, D., Xu, M. and Gu,
J., 2019. Big Earth data analytics: a survey. </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI";color:#323130">Big Earth Data</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI";color:#323130">, 3(2),83-107. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/20964471.2019.1611175" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#10147E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">DOI:
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Journal of Geographical Information Science, DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2019.1698743" target="_blank">10.1080/13658816.2019.1698743</a></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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