We are proud to be part of the issue 100 of Revista Cartográfica, a pioneering journal in GIS which was born in 1952 and, therefore, it celebrates 68 years of life. Our contribution to the issue in the article entitled “Reproducibility in AGILE: experiences, achievements, and recommendations”. It is the result of the ongoing and successfully collaboration of the team involved in the Reproducibility Agile initiative

Our contribution reflects on the general application of reproducible research in the GIScience community and focuses in particular on the case of the AGILE international conference . It is not an article where the definition of reproducibility is discussed; there are excellent papers published elsewhere such as Claerbout & Karrenbach (1992); Donoho et al (2009), Peng (2011) and Barba (2018).

This article relates the experience of a small group of GIScience researchers (we, the authors) for the promotion and incentive of reproducible research practices in the AGILE community. We describe our history, actions and activities carried out and achievements made, and we focused especially on one of the resources generated – AGILE Reproducible Paper Guidelines – that were put into practice for the first time at the AGILE 2020 conference.

Our primary intention with this article is simple: sharing our experiences and results, both positive and negative, so that readers and researchers interested in reproducibility research practices can adapt them to their environments and circumstances (be research group, community, associations, etc.).

If the first idea is to convey our experiences and achievements in the AGILE community, the second objective of this article is a “call” to the GIScience community in Latin America. We believe that Latin America is well positioned for the adoption of reproducible research practices, since the culture of the open (open access, open software, etc.) has traditionally been rooted in the academic and world. An illustrative example is Revista Cartográfica, a journal with a long-standing history and a clear commitment for the open access movement.

The abstract is:

This article describes the experiences, activities carried out, resources generated and recommendations for the promotion of practices in reproducible research in the field of geographic information science. Although the article focuses on the AGILE (Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe) community and conference, we believe that the resources and lessons learned can be extrapolated to related scientific communities and associations in other regions, such as Latin America. In this regard, we place special emphasis on the description of the guidelines for reproducible articles proposed within AGILE, as well as on a series of recommendations directed mainly to associations and organisers of scientific conferences for the gradual adoption and promotion of these practices. It is therefore a call to the Latin American GIScience community to consider the resources detailed here in order to encourage reproducible research in their scientific communities.

Cite it as:

C. Granell, B. Hofer, D. Nüst, F.O. Ostermann, R. Sileryte (2020) Reproducibilidad en AGILE: Experiencias, logros y recomendaciones [Reproducibility in AGILE: experiences, achievements, and recommendations]. Revista Cartográfica, 100, 155-172. https://doi.org/10.35424/rcarto.v0i100.668