Authors, Citation, License

GemGIS is an open-source project with a community of contributors ranging from Brazil to Europe and to Australia. Most of the core contributors of GemGIS are listed below but please make sure to also check out the Github Contributors Graph.

The development of the package was initiated during the Transform 2020 by the Department for Computational Geoscience and Reservoir Engineering at RWTH Aachen University, Germany and supported by most of the authors listed below.

Authors

The following list (sorted by name) shows the authors with substantial contributions to the conception or design of the software. The authors also provided new code or revised existing code and documentation.

• Arthur Endlein Correira, (@endarthur)

• Alexander Jüstel (@AlexanderJuestel)

• Marius Pischke

• Miguel de la Varga (@Leguark)

• Jan David Wagner (@JanWagner1312)

• Florian Wellmann (@flohorovic)

Revising documentation: * Jan Niederau (@Japhiolite) * Richard Scott (@RichardScottOZ)

FAIR Principle

The developers of GemGIS want to make the API, the tutorials and examples meet and adhere to the FAIR data principles (e.g. FAIR Principles).

Findable With each release, the data stored in the GemGIS repositories are uploaded to Zenodo where a persistent identifier is provided for each release. The data for the latest release of GemGIS can be found at https://zenodo.org/record/7602809#.Y-H9_XbMKUk and for the GemGIS data repository at https://zenodo.org/record/7494025#.Y-IL5nbMKUk. It is referred to Zenodo as the Github repositories do not strictly fulfill the criteria of having a globally unique and persistent identifier assigned to the (meta)data. However, all code and data can currently be found at https://github.com/cgre-aachen/gemgis and https://github.com/cgre-aachen/gemgis_data.

Accessible The files stored in the respective Zenodo repositories can be downloaded without registration as ZIP file. In addition, the data can be downloaded from the aforementioned Github repositories without registration as ZIP files or via git. The functionality of GemGIS can be easily accessed through installing the software using conda-forge or pip. Please see also the Installation Instructions <getting_started/installation> provided.

Interoperable No commercial software is needed to read or alter the data provided in the repositories. Files containing code can be opened with any text editor, vector and raster data can be opened with open-source software such as QGIS or the respective Python libraries such as GeoPandas or Rasterio. Mesh data can also be opened using text editors or Python packages such as PyVista or open-source software like Blender. We mostly use file formats that are common to the geospatial community (.shp, .tif, ZMAP-Grids, etc.) and that are not proprietary.

Reusable The provision of tutorials, examples and in fact this documentation makes the data provided in the repositories reusable under the license provided below.

Citation

If you use GemGIS for any published work, please cite it using the reference below:

@article{Jüstel2022,
 doi = {10.21105/joss.03709},
 url = {https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03709},
 year = {2022}, publisher = {The Open Journal},
 volume = {7},
 number = {73},
 pages = {3709},
 author = {Alexander Jüstel and Arthur Endlein Correira and Marius Pischke and Miguel de la Varga and Florian Wellmann},
 title = {GemGIS - Spatial Data Processing for Geomodeling},
 journal = {Journal of Open Source Software}
 }

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