[GRASS-user] Springer Encyclopedia of GIS, GRASS entry

[Benjamin Ducke]

Dear colleagues,

I think we should not take this to lightly.
It is of * great * importance to place open source GIS and
geodata infrastructures in this book, as this looks like it could
evolve into a widely circulated reference.

I believe that the chapter on "Organizational, Professional, Social, 
Legal Aspects of GIS" would be the suitable place for an OS GIS chapter.
In addition, there is already a chapter called "Control of Information - 
dissemination of GIS information" and this should be subsituted with
some background on open geodata (if that has not already been done).

However, most of the GRASS developers and users can only contribute
such things in their spare time and I would guess that I will be
hard to find someone to write up a whole chapter 'til December.
I would be willing to add a few paragraphs and some pretty figures
on archaeological GRASS applications.

Mark, Michael -- maybe we could cooperate on this?

Best,

Benjamin

Andreas Neumann wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am a contributing author for the upcoming Springer Encyclopedia of GIS 
> (Entries for SVG and Webmapping) and noticed that they have entries for 
> some commercial GIS and spatial DB products (e.g. Oracle, Smallworld) 
> but don't mention OS or other commercial alternatives, such as UMN 
> Mapserver, Postgis, GRASS, ESRI, etc. I asked the editors and they agree 
> to include additional entries into the encyclopedia if they can be 
> written until december.
> 
> Are there any volunteers that would be willing to write an entry for GRASS?
> 
> Additional information is available at 
> http://refworks.springer-sbm.com/geograph/
> 
> If you are interested in writing such an entry (3000-4000 words, 8-12 
> pages incl figures), please contact me and I'll send you the emails of 
> the editors and responsible person at Springer. Entries can be written 
> in Word or Latex.
> 
> Thanks for your interest,
> Andreas
> 

-- 
Benjamin Ducke, M.A.
Archäoinformatik
(Archaeoinformation Science)
Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte
(Inst. of Prehistoric and Historic Archaeology)
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
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Germany

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