[GRASS-SVN] r64954 - grass-promo/grassposter/2015_EGU_G7_PeerReview_SciPlatform

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Mon Mar 30 18:59:09 PDT 2015


Author: ychemin
Date: 2015-03-30 18:59:09 -0700 (Mon, 30 Mar 2015)
New Revision: 64954

Modified:
   grass-promo/grassposter/2015_EGU_G7_PeerReview_SciPlatform/poster.tex
Log:
Updated Introduction with Peter's text

Modified: grass-promo/grassposter/2015_EGU_G7_PeerReview_SciPlatform/poster.tex
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--- grass-promo/grassposter/2015_EGU_G7_PeerReview_SciPlatform/poster.tex	2015-03-31 01:43:22 UTC (rev 64953)
+++ grass-promo/grassposter/2015_EGU_G7_PeerReview_SciPlatform/poster.tex	2015-03-31 01:59:09 UTC (rev 64954)
@@ -147,34 +147,15 @@
 \block{\blocktitlewrap{Introduction}}
 {
 \setlength{\parskip}{0.3ex}
+\normalsize
+Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are widely used for the management of both natural ressources and in more general terms all kind of information with a spatial dimension associated to it. Over the last decades, GIS has become a key driver in geospatial science, research and application.
 
-Over the last decades, GIS has become a key driver in geospatial science, research and application.
-GIS software which is licensed under a free and open source software (FOSS) licence
-is more than just a mere tool for spatial analysis.
+GIS software which is licensed under a free and open source software (FOSS) licence is more than just a mere tool for spatial analysis. FOSS GIS projects are maintained and continuously extended by international communities of volunteers, based on freely publicly available code base. Immediate access to this software repository enables instant quality checking of the current software version both by continuous automated tests, and code review by human experts. FOSS GIS project communities include members from many fields of Science and Industry, which leads to a many-faceted review process for incoming software submissions to the project code-base. Submitted code is evaluated in different software environments beyond the one originally used for development, in different fields of application beyond the field of expertise of the original authors, and different scales of magnitude for the data to be processed. This exceeds the established review process for scientific writing 
 in a given journal or a data publication in a defined field of Science. FOSS GIS projects can serve as collaborative peer-reviewed environments to conduct verifiable science in a trusted and transparent environment.
 
-GRASS GIS (Neteler et al., 2012 \cite{neteler2012grass}), a free and open source GIS,
-is used by many scientists directly or as a backend in other projects
-such as R or QGIS to perform geoprocessing tasks.
+GRASS GIS (Neteler et al., 2012 \cite{neteler2012grass}), a free and open source GIS, is used by many scientists directly or as a backend in other projects such as R or QGIS to perform geoprocessing tasks. Thus, a large number of current scientific geospatial computations already rely on quality and correct functionality of the software, as a means to assure the replicability of the scientific results. In addition, GRASS GIS provides added-value for new and ongoing research as a stable and reliable platform: New scientific algorithms can be developed against the reviewed functionalities already provided by the GRASS GIS codebase. This avoids unnecessary overhead by re-implementation, ensures quality by use of trusted components and allows reuse and long term preservation within the project software repository:   Integrating scientific algorithms into GRASS GIS helps to preserve reproducibility of scientific results over time as the original author designed it (Rocchini & Net
 eler, 2012 \cite{rocchini2012let}).
 
-Thanks to the user and developer community, submitted code is evaluated
-in different fields of application beyond
-the field of expertise of the original authors, and different scales of magnitude
-for the data to be processed.
-This exceeds the established review process for scientific writing in a given journal
-or a data publication in a defined field of science.
+Moreover, subsequent improvements are tracked in the source code versioning system and are immediately available to the public (Petras, 2014 \cite{Petras2014}). Thus, GRASS GIS acts as a repository of scientific peer-reviewed code and algorithm/knowledge hub for future generation of scientists.
 
-Immediate access to software repository enables instant quality checking
-of the current software version both by continuous automated tests (Petras, 2014 \cite{Petras2014}),
-and code review by human experts.
-
-New scientific algorithms can be developed against the reviewed functionalities
-already provided by the GRASS GIS codebase.
-This avoids unnecessary overhead by re-implementation,
-ensures quality by use of trusted components and allows reuse and long term preservation
-within the project software repository:
-Integrating scientific algorithms into GRASS GIS helps to preserve reproducibility
-of scientific results over time as the original author designed it
-(Rocchini \& Neteler, 2012 \cite{rocchini2012let}).
 }
 
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