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

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Peter,

I already do a lot of manual things for projects each release, so I 
volunteer to tackle this for PostGIS - although I may not be considered 
as part of the PostGIS dev team, I think of myself as one ha, and I've 
been actively a part of promoting, teaching, and helping PostGIS users 
in the web mapping space for decades, that it would be an honour to help 
the PostGIS project this (small) way.

Unless I hear screams, I will set this up tomorrow.

-jeff



On 2022-01-13 1:33 p.m., Peter Löwe wrote:
> Dear PostGIS developers,
> 
> I'm reaching out to you because of an opportunity for the PostGIS community, which surfaced recently:
> The upcoming second edition of the Springer Handbook of Geoinformatics will cover the PostGIS 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.
> The Open Source chapter aims to expose audiences, which still might believe that only facts are relevant when stated in cost intense non open access publications, to open source, open access, and open science.
> 
> 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 PostGIS 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
> <peter.loewe at gmx.de>
> 
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-- 
Jeff McKenna
GatewayGeo: Developers of MS4W, MapServer Consulting and Training
co-founder of FOSS4G
http://gatewaygeo.com/