FOSSGIS Atlas – Meta Landscape of the Conferences

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Or in other words: a kind of conference cartography 2025++.

A curated, data-driven meta-archive of the FOSSGIS conferences – structured, visualized, interlinked.

This project collects, structures, and analyzes all publicly available content from the FOSSGIS 2025 conference – including videos, abstracts, slides, and view counts. The goal is to create an interactive meta-landscape that provides orientation within the thematic diversity of the conferences.

Possible data sources:

• media.ccc.de – FOSSGIS 2025
• YouTube Playlist
• Pretalx Conference Schedule

Project Goals

• Three-level taxonomy (Supergroup → Group → Subgroup)
• Master tables with over 200 program items, including talks, workshops, lightning talks, links, durations, and view counts
• Interactive visualizations (heatmaps, tree views, watchlists)
• JupyterLab environment via Binder
• DOI-based releases via Zenodo (Working Paper & Dataset)

Launch Notebook (via Binder)

https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/fosseam/fossgis-atlas/main?labpath=notebooks/0_fossgis_atlas_main.ipynb

Project Structure

notebooks/     → Jupyter notebooks (data import, analysis, visualization)
data/          → Raw data from Pretalx, CCC, YouTube
exports/       → Snapshots & final CSVs
docs/          → Project description, phase model, tree views, etc.
requirements.txt
README.md
liesmich.md

Contribute & Collaborate

Like the idea? We welcome support, suggestions, and critical feedback – whether through Issues, Pull Requests, or Peer Reviews.

This project is under active development and open to:

• Extensions to taxonomy and categorization
• New approaches to analysis or visualization (e.g., with QGIS, Streamlit, TimelineJS)
• Validation and curation of content
• Export formats, watchlists, filters, mapping concepts
• OpenScience peer reviews

For larger contributions or collaborations, feel free to reach out – or open an issue in the repository.

Citation

DOI: Will be assigned via Zenodo upon first release

• The current state is planned as a Working Paper
• Future snapshots and final datasets will each receive their own DOI
• This repository will also be synced with Zenodo on every release

Licensing

Code & Notebooks: GNU General Public License v3.0 or later (GPL-3.0+)

Documentation & Content (README, Phase Model, Tree, etc.): Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0