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.