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A look at the proceedings of the most important conferences in geographic information science reveals the disappearence of a topic that has been at the core of our discipline from the first day: GIS. Apparently, we either know everything about GIS, or researchers simply got bored with the topic and turned to other, more interesting […]

This post is an interesting read. The writer argues that reputation in science is taken far too important nowadays. Grants, for example, depend not only on the quality of the submission, but also on the reputation of the submitting scientists. Her proposal is to get rid of names in the papers and applications and let […]

For the GI Days 2007 here at the IFGI I am responsible for providing a platform which supports the always important networking between the participants. This is actually nothing you would normally care about: socialising happens by itself, and you can’t really force someone into it. The only thing you can do is providing the […]