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Background: Why a Special Issue on Geoscience Papers of the Future?

Include here our discussion for the vision

Motivated by need to fully document and make research accessible and reproducable.

Motivation: The EarthCube Initiative and the GeoSoft Project

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OSTP memo. Other reports that talk about the need for new approaches to editing.

What is a GPF

Include here our discussion of what is a GPF

The articles in this issue reflect the current best practice for generating a Geoscience Paper of the Future.

Figures in the paper may be a clean versions of an image generated by software. To the extent possible, authors have included clear delineations of provenance. The goal is to assure that readers may regenerate the figures using documented workflows, data, and codes.

An important note (Mimi) is that frequently figures are generated by code, scripts, etc. yet the actual figure is finalized with user.....

Mimi is trying to say: is it really worth belaboring the point about how the prettified version of the figure is made? If it is: both of the visualization software I've used (Matlab and SigmaPlot) have actual code in the background that specifies how to set up the prettification, and this code can be found, copied out, and rerun to generate the exact same figure with all of the prettification in the same place. SigmaPlot uses Visual Basic (I think) in its macros. If it is an important point about explicit code, this should be doable. But I'm not sure it's strictly necessary to specify exactly where all the prettifications are to get the gist across.

Related work

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Papers to be included

For each submission, we describe:

• Authors and affiliations
• Keywords of research area
• Tentative title
• Short abstract
• Relationship to other publications (is the article based on a previously published article? is it new content?)
• Pointer to the wiki page that documents the article
• Expected submission date

[David 2015]

• Authors and affiliations: Cedric David
• Keywords of research area:
• Tentative title:
• Short abstract:
• Relationship to other publications:
• Pointer to the wiki page that documents the article: Page
• Expected submission date:

[Demir 2015]

• Authors and affiliations: Ibrahim Demir
• Keywords of research area:
• Tentative title:
• Short abstract:
• Relationship to other publications: (is the article based on a previously published article? is it new content?)
• Pointer to the wiki page that documents the article: Page
• Expected submission date:

[Fulweiler 2015]

• Authors and affiliations: Wally Fulweiler
• Keywords of research area:
• Tentative title:
• Short abstract:
• Relationship to other publications: (is the article based on a previously published article? is it new content?)
• Pointer to the wiki page that documents the article: Page
• Expected submission date:

[Karlstrom and Lay 2015]

• Authors and affiliations: Leif Karlstrom and Lay Kuan Loh
• Keywords of research area:
• Tentative title:
• Short abstract:
• Relationship to other publications: (is the article based on a previously published article? is it new content?)
• Pointer to the wiki page that documents the article: Page
• Expected submission date:

[Lee 2015]

• Authors and affiliations: Kyo Lee
• Keywords of research area:
• Tentative title:
• Short abstract:
• Relationship to other publications: (is the article based on a previously published article? is it new content?)
• Pointer to the wiki page that documents the article: Page
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[Miller 2015]

• Authors and affiliations: Kim Miller
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• Short abstract:
• Relationship to other publications: (is the article based on a previously published article? is it new content?)
• Pointer to the wiki page that documents the article: Page
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[Mills 2015]

• Authors and affiliations: Heath Mills
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• Short abstract:
• Relationship to other publications: (is the article based on a previously published article? is it new content?)
• Pointer to the wiki page that documents the article: Page
• Expected submission date:

[Oh 2015]

• Authors and affiliations: Ji-Hyun Oh
• Keywords of research area:
• Tentative title:
• Short abstract:
• Relationship to other publications: (is the article based on a previously published article? is it new content?)
• Pointer to the wiki page that documents the article: Page
• Expected submission date:

[Pierce 2015]

• Authors and affiliations: Suzanne Pierce
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• Short abstract:
• Relationship to other publications: (is the article based on a previously published article? is it new content?)
• Pointer to the wiki page that documents the article: Page
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[Pope 2015]

• Authors and affiliations: Allen Pope
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• Relationship to other publications: (is the article based on a previously published article? is it new content?)
• Pointer to the wiki page that documents the article: Page
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[Read and Winslow 2015]

• Authors and affiliations: Jordan Read and Luke Winslow
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• Relationship to other publications: (is the article based on a previously published article? is it new content?)
• Pointer to the wiki page that documents the article: Page
• Expected submission date:

[Tzeng 2015]

• Authors and affiliations: Mimi Tzeng
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• Tentative title:
• Short abstract:
• Relationship to other publications: (is the article based on a previously published article? is it new content?)
• Pointer to the wiki page that documents the article: Page
• Expected submission date:

[Villamizar 2015]

• Authors and affiliations: Sandra Villamizar
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• Short abstract:
• Relationship to other publications: (is the article based on a previously published article? is it new content?)
• Pointer to the wiki page that documents the article: Page
• Expected submission date:

[Yu 2015]

• Authors and affiliations: Xuan Yu
• Keywords of research area:
• Tentative title:
• Short abstract:
• Relationship to other publications: (is the article based on a previously published article? is it new content?)
• Pointer to the wiki page that documents the article: Page
• Expected submission date:

Special Issue Editors

• Co-editor:
• Co-editor:
• Co-editor:

The editors will only accept submissions that follow the special issue review criteria.

The editors will select a set of reviewers to handle the submissions. Reviewers will include computer scientists, library scientists, and geoscientists.

Special Issue Review Criteria

The reviewers will be asked to provide feedback on the papers according to the following criteria:

• Documentation of the datasets: descriptions of datasets, unique identifiers, repositories.
• Documentation of software: description of all software used (including pre-processing of data, visualization steps, etc), unique identifiers, repositories.
• Documentation of the provenance of results: provenance for each figure or result, such as the workflow or the provenance record.

Tentative Timeline

• Journal committed to special issue: April 15, 2015
• Submissions due to editors: June 30, 2015
• Reviews due: Sept 15, 2015
• Decisions out to authors: Sept 30, 2015
• Revisions due: October 31, 2015
• Final versions due November 15, 2015
• Issue published December 31, 2015