Advances on FAIR Geospatial Information Resources
We are currently organizing a special issue on “Advances on FAIR Geospatial Information Resources” in the International Journal of Digital Earth (deadline: 30 November 2023). We welcome submissions on a wide range of topics listed below. The full Call for Papers is available at https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_collections/international-journal-of-digital-earth-advances-on-fair-geospatial-information-resources/. Please forward to your colleagues who may be interested.
Findable
- Techniques for geospatial metadata creation and curation (manual, automatic, semi-automatic, crowdsourcing)
- Semantic search and question answering over geospatial resources
- Discovery of distributed, linked geospatial information resources
- Innovative search user interfaces for geospatial information resources
Accessible
- Persistence strategies for geospatial resources
- Maintenance strategies for geospatial information infrastructures
- Immersive environments for (data) exploration and analysis
- Accessible design of tools for (data) exploration and analysis
Interoperable
- Modelling approaches for geographic concepts
- (Neuro-symbolic) approaches for formal geographic knowledge representation
- Integration of geospatial information resources across communities
- Standards for data/models/software descriptions and their impacts
Reusable
- Approaches fostering the reuse of (digital) research results across communities
- Reuse metrics and models in the context of geospatial information resources
- Digital rights management and smart contracting for geospatial resources
- Users' and communities' needs for geographic knowledge reuse
Cross-cutting themes
- Ethics of FAIR geospatial resources
- Education and capacity building towards FAIRness (e.g., gamification approaches, ...)
- Techniques for (automated) assessment of FAIRness
- Participation, engagement and FAIRness (e.g., citizen science approaches, ...)
- Reward mechanisms to promote FAIRness in the Earth System Sciences
Please contact Auriol Degbelo (auriol.degbelo@tu-dresden.de) for specific questions.