<div dir="auto">Dear colleagues,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This is a kind reminder that the deadline to submit extended abstracts for OSM Science 2025 is fast approaching: May 18, 2025.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">OSM Science 2025, the Academic Track of the State of the Map 2025 conference, will take place October 3–5, 2025, in Manila, Philippines (and online simultaneously). A full day of the conference will be dedicated to scientific research about, and with, OpenStreetMap.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We welcome empirical, methodological, conceptual, and literature-review-based contributions exploring any scientific aspect of OpenStreetMap.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Submission portal: <a href="https://pretalx.com/sotm2025-osm-science/cfp">https://pretalx.com/sotm2025-osm-science/cfp</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Full call for abstracts: <a href="https://2025.stateofthemap.org/calls/osm-science/">https://2025.stateofthemap.org/calls/osm-science/</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Please feel free to share this reminder within your networks. We look forward to your submissions and to seeing you in October.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best regards,</div><div dir="auto">Anna, Marco, Peter & Yair</div><div dir="auto">The OSM Science 2025 Scientific Committee</div><div dir="auto"><a href="mailto:academic-sotm@openstreetmap.org">academic-sotm@openstreetmap.org</a></div><div dir="auto"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 1, 2025, 23:07 Yair Grinberger <<a href="mailto:yair.grinberger@mail.huji.ac.il">yair.grinberger@mail.huji.ac.il</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="rtl"><div dir="ltr">Dear Friends and Colleagues,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">We are happy to announce that the 2025 of OSM Science (i.e. the Academic Track at State of the Map) will be held as part of the State of the Map 2025 conference [1], taking place on October 3-5 in Manilla (Philippines) and online simultaneously. A full day of sessions will be dedicated to scientific research about, and with, OpenStreetMap (see past editions [2-8]).</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The Call for Abstracts is now open - see the full call at the end of this email. The submission deadline is 18 May 2025. Authors are invited to submit extended abstract using the OSM Science 2024 Pretalx submission system [9]. Questions directed to the Scientific Committee should be sent to <a href="mailto:academic-sotm@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">academic-sotm@openstreetmap.org</a>.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Please feel free to distribute the call within your networks. We hope to see you and learn about your research in person or online.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Best regards,</div><div dir="ltr">Anna, Marco, Peter & Yair, aka the OSM Science 2025 Scientific Committee</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div>====== OSM Science 2025: Call for Abstracts =======</div><div>OSM Science 2025 (also known as the Academic Track of State of the Map) is an annual international meeting focused on the scientific study of OpenStreetMap (OSM). The 8th edition of OSM Science will be part of the State of the Map 2025 conference [1], taking place on October 3-5 in Manila (Philippines), where a full day of sessions will be dedicated to scientific research about, and with, OpenStreetMap (see past editions [2-8]). The goal of OSM Science 2025 is to showcase the research and innovation of scientific investigations into OpenStreetMap, while at the same time providing a bridge to connect members of the OpenStreetMap community and the scientific community through an open platform to exchange ideas and opportunities for increased collaboration. We expect empirical, methodological, conceptual, or literature-review-based contributions addressing any scientific aspect related to OpenStreetMap, in particular, but not limited to: data collection, integration and quality analysis in OpenStreetMap; contribution patterns and the human/social dimensions of the project; integration of Artificial Intelligence techniques and other applications in which OpenStreetMap plays a central role. The contribution of OpenStreetMap data to domain-specific and/or policy-relevant studies is also welcome.<br><br>* Submission Guidelines<br>Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts using the OSM Science 2025 Pretalx submission system [9]. Deadline for submission is 18 May 2025.<br><br></div><div>Abstracts should be between 800 and 1200 words. <br><br></div><div>Abstracts must be scientifically rigorous, and the content should be logically structured as follows (without the need to include subsections): introduction/background, where the problem addressed is introduced; main aim or purpose of the study; brief description of the methodology and findings achieved; final discussion highlighting the scientific contribution of the study and its practical benefits/implications. Contributions describing applications or usage of OSM data with no scientific novelty/innovation will be rejected.</div><div><br>In the evaluation of proposals, the scientific committee will pay particular attention to the reproducibility of the research (where this is applicable). Reproducibility is ensured when the research makes all artifacts (input data, computational steps, methods and code) openly available to obtain consistent results. When available, the code shall be released under an open source license. Additionally, precedence shall be given to authors who intend tol present physically at the conference.</div><div><br>Abstracts are to be submitted online in plain-text format. You have the possibility to submit up to 3 figures that will accompany your submission, demonstrating the results already produced by the research. This is optional and not mandatory. Figures should be added only whether/when necessary and must be clear and legible. All figures must be referenced in the text and clearly numbered according to the order in which they appear in the text.</div><div><br>Abstracts will be evaluated by the scientific committee and external reviewers, when needed. Authors of selected abstracts will be invited to deliver an oral presentation or a lightning talk during the OSM Science 2025 sessions at the conference, or to present a poster (in case a poster session will be organised). Building on top of the successful proceedings of previous editions of the Academic Track [10-14], authors of the selected submissions will be required to submit extended abstracts (up to four pages in length and including a maximum of one figure). These extended abstracts will be published in the OSM Science 2025 Conference Proceedings, each with a distinct Digital Object Identifier (DOI) in Zenodo, an open access online repository.<br>The 2019 and 2020 Academic Track resulted in a special issue of the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information [15]. </div><div><br></div><div>Similarly and upon interest from the authors of the abstracts, the scientific committee may seek to further disseminate the contributions to this conference by investigating the organization of a special issue in a relevant, open access, scientific journal. In such a case, authors of the selected abstracts will be invited to submit a full paper to this special issue. Successful submissions may benefit from partial or full waiver of publication fees.</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://2025.stateofthemap.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://2025.stateofthemap.org/</a> <br>[2] <a href="https://2018.stateofthemap.org/academictrack/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://2018.stateofthemap.org/academictrack/</a> <br>[3] <a href="https://2019.stateofthemap.org/academic_programme/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://2019.stateofthemap.org/academic_programme/</a> <br>[4] <a href="https://2020.stateofthemap.org/cfp/academic/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://2020.stateofthemap.org/cfp/academic/</a> <br>[5] <a href="https://2021.stateofthemap.org/calls/academic/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://2021.stateofthemap.org/calls/academic/</a> <br>[6] <a href="https://2022.stateofthemap.org/calls/academic/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://2022.stateofthemap.org/calls/academic/</a> <br>[7] <a href="https://osmscience.github.io/OSMScience2023/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://osmscience.github.io/OSMScience2023/</a><br>[8] <a href="https://2024.stateofthemap.org/calls/academic/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://2024.stateofthemap.org/calls/academic/</a> <br>[9] <a href="https://pretalx.com/sotm2025-osm-science/cfp" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://pretalx.com/sotm2025-osm-science/cfp</a></div><div>[10] <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/3405431#.ZDug5HZBy3A" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://zenodo.org/record/3405431#.ZDug5HZBy3A</a><br>[11] <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/3928675#.ZDugy3ZBy3A" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://zenodo.org/record/3928675#.ZDugy3ZBy3A</a><br>[12] <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/5116434#.ZDuhA3ZBy3A" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://zenodo.org/record/5116434#.ZDuhA3ZBy3A</a><br>[13] <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/7004791#.ZDuhJHZBy3A" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://zenodo.org/record/7004791#.ZDuhJHZBy3A</a><br>[14] <a href="https://zenodo.org/records/10443403" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://zenodo.org/records/10443403</a><br>[15] <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/OpenStreetMap" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/OpenStreetMap</a><br></div></div><div><div dir="rtl" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="rtl"><div dir="rtl"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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