[OSM-Science] OSMScience 2023: Call for Abstracts

[Yair Grinberger]

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

We are happy to announce that the 2023 edition of OSMScience (i.e. the
Academic Track at State of the Map) will be held as part of the State of
the Map Europe 2023 conference [1], taking place on November 10-12 in
Antwerpen (Belgium) and online simultaneously. A full day of sessions will
be dedicated to scientific research about, and with, OpenStreetMap (see
past editions [2-6]).

The Call for Abstracts is now open - see the full call at the end of this
email. The submission deadline is 1 August 2023. Authors are invited to
submit extended abstracts using the OSMScience 2023 Pretalx submission
system [7]. Questions directed to the Scientific Committee should be sent
to academic-sotm at openstreetmap.org.

Please feel free to distribute the call within your networks. We hope to
see you and learn about your research in person or online.

Best regards,
Yair, Marco, Serena, Levente, Godwin, Hao, Pengyuan, and Peter, aka the
Scientific Committee

======= OSM Science 2023: Call for Abstracts =======

OSMScience 2023 is a meeting focused on the scientific study of
OpenStreetMap. Its 6th edition will be part of the State of the Map Europe
2023 conference [1], taking place on November 10-12 in Antwerpen (Belgium)
and online simultaneously, where a full day of sessions will be dedicated
to scientific research about, and with, OpenStreetMap (see past editions
[2-6]). The goal of OSMScience 2023 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 passage 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 machine learning and applications in which
OpenStreetMap takes a central role.
In an effort to improve the interaction and collaboration between the
academic and the more general OpenStreetMap communities, authors are
invited to particularly highlight the practical implications or impacts of
their research on the OpenStreetMap community at large.

* Submission Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts using the OSMScience 2023
Pretalx submission system [7]. Deadline for submission is 1 August 2023.

Abstracts should be between 800 and 1200 words. These limits will be
strictly enforced for a fair and balanced review process.

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.

In the evaluation of proposals, the scientific committee will pay 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.

Abstracts are to be submitted online in plain-text format (no images or
figures).

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 during the OSMScience 2023 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 [8-11], selected abstracts will be published
in the OSMScience Conference Proceedings, each with a distinct Digital
Object Identifier (DOI) in Zenodo, an open access online repository.

The 2019 and 2020 Academic Track resulted in a special issue of the ISPRS
International Journal of Geo-Information [12]. Similarly, 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.

[1] https://stateofthemap.eu/
[2] https://2018.stateofthemap.org/academictrack/
[3] https://2019.stateofthemap.org/academic_programme/
[4] https://2020.stateofthemap.org/cfp/academic/
[5] https://2021.stateofthemap.org/calls/academic/
[6] https://2022.stateofthemap.org/calls/academic/
[7] https://pretalx.com/sotm-eu-academic-track-2023/
[8] https://zenodo.org/record/3405431#.ZDug5HZBy3A
[9] https://zenodo.org/record/3928675#.ZDugy3ZBy3A
[10] https://zenodo.org/record/5116434#.ZDuhA3ZBy3A
[11] https://zenodo.org/record/7004791#.ZDuhJHZBy3A
[12] https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/OpenStreetMap
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