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

[Michael Barton]

I don't know if I have time to do this alone, but a doctoral student in my
lab (who has already taught a course on GRASS) is interested in
contributing. He is Isaac Ullah and I'm copying  him so that all have each
others' emails.

Michael
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Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Arizona State University

phone: 480-965-6213
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> From: Andreas Neumann <neumann at karto.baug.ethz.ch>
> Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 14:26:06 +0100
> To: Benjamin Ducke <benjamin.ducke at ufg.uni-kiel.de>
> Cc: <grassuser at grass.itc.it>, Mark Lake <mark.lake at ucl.ac.uk>, Michael Barton
> <michael.barton at asu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Springer Encyclopedia of GIS, GRASS entry
> 
> Hi Benjamin,
> 
> If you agree to write an entry, the responsible persons at Springer will
> provide you with a full list of entries. This is much more detailed than
> the TOC at the website I provided. It is ok if the entry is written by
> several persons, but they need one corresponding address and a person
> for signing the legal stuff (contract).
> 
> I am sorry that the timeframe is so short, I only recently had a glance
> at all the entries and only recently proposed the editors to add a few
> other projects/products to the list. Of course this shouldn't be an
> advertisement chapter, but should provide background information on the
> project, general software capabilities, history of the project, etc.
> 
> Maybe there are some existing articles out there on GRASS to start from.
> 
> Andreas
> 
> Benjamin Ducke wrote:
> 
>> 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
>> 
> 
> 
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