[gvSIG-devel] DOI for the gvSIG project / Springer Handbook of Geoinformatics

[Peter Löwe]

Dear gvSIG developers,

I'm reaching out to you because of an opportunity for the gvSIG community, which surfaced recently:

The upcoming second edition of the Springer Handbook of Geoinformation (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-540-72680-7) will cover the gvSIG project. The Handbook project has been delayed due to the Pandemic, but will be completed in a few weeks. I am serving as the editor of the Handbook chapter about Open Source Geoinformatics. The authors and editors for the Handbook project work without financial compensation by Springer and will not benefit from the number of volumes sold.

Recently, new workflows for scientific citation of software projects have emerged and are becoming state of the art. This includes references by persistent digital object identifiers (DOI) to software projects instead of URLs. DOI-based references allow to give due credit to the whole project team, including first authors, developers, but also maintainers and people in other roles.

Several OSGeo projects including GRASS GIS, GMT, MapServer, MOSS and rasdaman have already registered their own DOI, QGIS, GeoServer, GeoTools, GeoPython,
 PRO, GDAL and OSGeoLive are considering to register DOI soon.

As an example, this is the DOI for GRASS GIS: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5810537
Hands on information how to register a DOI for a OSGeo project is available here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Persistent_identifiers(pid).

The Editors of the Springer Handbook agree that including DOI references for Open Source projects is a win-win-scenario for the audience of the upcoming Handbook and also the OSGeo project communities. They have extended the production deadline until January 20 to give additional software projects the opportunity to register a DOI to be included in the book chapter.

If the gvSIG project reserves or registers a DOI (takes only a few minutes) before the deadline of January 20, I would gladly include it in the Open Source Geoinformatics chapter reference section.


Please let me know if you have any questions.

Best,
Peter

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Peter_Loewe
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