Terra Digitalis: Diseño E Implementación De Una Revista Internacional Interactiva De Mapas Arbitrados

Abstract

Despite of its relevance as a tool for scientific communication in Geo-sciences, maps are generally regarded as a secondary product in peer reviewed journals. This limitation may be due to format and cost limitations of printed publications. Advances in cybercartography and geoinformatics extends the online capabilities of cartography, allowing 1) fluid visualization of very high resolution maps 2) easy interaction with the underlying data 3) appropriate interaction with multimedia resources such as graphs, videos and 3Dvisualizations, and 4) remote access to geo-scientific data collections. We present here an innovative design and implementation of an interactive peer reviewed journal of maps which includes the referred capabilities.

Cartographic Journals in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: <em>Terra Digitalis</em> and the Emergence of Peer-Reviewed FAIR Geospatial Data

“…Terra Digitalis is an online international journal of maps which was launched in 2017 [13]. Its design is based on the use of Geonode (an official project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation OSGeo [14]), as a Geospatial Content Management System (GeoCSM) linked to the Open Journal System (OJS, [15][16]) editorial process.…”