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<div dir="rtl"><div dir="ltr">Dear GeoForAll friends and colleagues,<br clear="all"></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">We
are happy to announce that the 2024 edition of OSM Science (i.e. the
scientific conference on OpenStreetMap) will be held as part of the State of
the Map 2024 conference [1], taking place on September 6-8 in Nairobi
(Kenya) and online simultaneously. A full day of sessions will be
dedicated to scientific research about, and with, OpenStreetMap (see
past editions [2-7]). </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The
Call for Abstracts is now open - see the full call at the end of this
email. The submission deadline is 10 May 2024. Authors are invited to
submit extended abstracts using the OSM Science 2024 Pretalx submission
system [8]. Questions directed to the Scientific Committee should be
sent to <a href="mailto:academic-sotm@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">academic-sotm@openstreetmap.org</a>.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Please
feel free to distribute the call within your networks. We hope to see
you and learn about your research in person or online.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Best regards,</div><div dir="ltr">Yair & Marco, co-chairs of the Scientific Committee</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">====== OSM Science 2024: Call for Abstracts =======</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div><div dir="rtl" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="rtl"><div dir="rtl"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">OSM
Science 2024 (aka the Academic Track of State of the Map) is a meeting
focused on the scientific study of OpenStreetMap. Its 7th edition will
be part of the State of the Map 2024 conference, taking place on
September 6-8 in Nairobi (Kenya), where a full day of sessions will be
dedicated to scientific research about, and with, OpenStreetMap. The
goal of OSM Science 2024 is to showcase the research and innovation of
scientific investigations into OpenStreetMap, while at the same time
providing a bridge to connect members of the OpenStreetMap community and
the scientific community through an open passage to exchange ideas and
opportunities for increased collaboration. We expect empirical,
methodological, conceptual, or literature-review-based contributions
addressing any scientific aspect related to OpenStreetMap, in
particular, but not limited to, data collection, integration and quality
analysis in OpenStreetMap; contribution patterns and the human/social
dimensions of the project; integration of Artificial Intelligence
techniques and other applications in which OpenStreetMap takes a central
role.<br><br>* Submission Guidelines<br>Authors are invited to submit
extended abstracts using the State of the Map 2024 Pretalx submission
system [8]. Deadline for submission is 10 May 2024.<br><br>Abstracts should be between 800 and 1200 words. These limits will be strictly enforced for a fair and balanced review process.<br><br>Abstracts
must be scientifically rigorous, and the content should be logically
structured as follows (without the need to include subsections):
introduction/background, where the problem addressed is introduced; main
aim or purpose of the study; brief description of the methodology and
findings achieved; final discussion highlighting the scientific
contribution of the study and its practical benefits/implications.
Contributions describing mere applications of OSM data with no
scientific novelty/innovation will be rejected.<br><br>In the evaluation
of proposals, the scientific committee will pay attention to the
reproducibility of the research (where this is applicable).
Reproducibility is ensured when the research makes all artifacts (input
data, computational steps, methods and code) openly available to obtain
consistent results. When available, the code shall be released under an
open source license. Additionally, precedence would be given to authors
who will present physically at the conference.<br><br>Abstracts are to be submitted online in plain-text format (no images or figures).<br><br>Abstracts
will be evaluated by the scientific committee and external reviewers,
when needed. Authors of selected abstracts will be invited to deliver an
oral presentation or a 5 minute lightning talk during the OSM Science
2024 sessions at the conference, or to present a poster (in case a
poster session will be organised). Building on top of the successful
proceedings of previous editions of the Academic Track [9-13], authors
of the selected submissions will be required to submit extended
abstracts. These extended abstracts will be published in the OSM Science
2024 Conference Proceedings, each with a distinct Digital Object
Identifier (DOI) in Zenodo, an open access online repository.<br><br>The
2019 and 2020 Academic Track resulted in a special issue of the ISPRS
International Journal of Geo-Information [14]. Similarly, the scientific
committee may seek to further disseminate the contributions to this
conference by investigating the organization of a special issue in a
relevant, open access, scientific journal. In such a case, authors of
the selected abstracts will be invited to submit a full paper to this
special issue. Successful submissions may benefit from partial or full
waiver of publication fees.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">[1] <a href="https://stateofthemap.eu/" target="_blank">https://2024.stateofthemap.org/</a><br>[2] <a href="https://2018.stateofthemap.org/academictrack/" target="_blank">https://2018.stateofthemap.org/academictrack/</a><br>[3] <a href="https://2019.stateofthemap.org/academic_programme/" target="_blank">https://2019.stateofthemap.org/academic_programme/</a><br>[4] <a href="https://2020.stateofthemap.org/cfp/academic/" target="_blank">https://2020.stateofthemap.org/cfp/academic/</a><br>[5] <a href="https://2021.stateofthemap.org/calls/academic/" target="_blank">https://2021.stateofthemap.org/calls/academic/</a><br>[6] <a href="https://2022.stateofthemap.org/calls/academic/" target="_blank">https://2022.stateofthemap.org/calls/academic/</a></div><div dir="ltr">[7] <a href="https://osmscience.github.io/OSMScience2023/" target="_blank">https://osmscience.github.io/OSMScience2023/</a></div><div dir="ltr">[8] <a href="https://pretalx.com/state-of-the-map-2024-academic-track/cfp" target="_blank">https://pretalx.com/state-of-the-map-2024-academic-track/cfp</a><br>[9] <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/3405431" target="_blank">https://zenodo.org/record/3405431</a><br>[10] <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/3928675" target="_blank">https://zenodo.org/record/3928675</a><br>[11] <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/5116434" target="_blank">https://zenodo.org/record/5116434</a><br>[12] <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/7004791" target="_blank">https://zenodo.org/record/7004791</a><br>[13] <a href="https://zenodo.org/records/10443403" target="_blank">https://zenodo.org/records/10443403</a></div><div dir="ltr">[14] <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/OpenStreetMap" target="_blank">https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/OpenStreetMap</a><div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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