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Why GIS Professional Certification Matters To All of Us
Author(s) -
Kemp Karen K.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
transactions in gis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.721
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1467-9671
pISSN - 1361-1682
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9671.00137
Subject(s) - certification , citation , library science , world wide web , computer science , political science , law
would bewilling to read? And, why have I spent so much of my time on this topic in the past fewyears? While I suspect I cannot fully answer the Þrst question, my response to the secondis simply OItOs importantO.Ten years ago, Michael Goodchild and I published an article (Goodchild and Kemp1992) to discuss what we at the time called the dreaded A-word — accreditation — thoughwe considered this broadly to include the issue of certiÞcation. It was a subject thatfrequently emerged in forums where we were discussing the recently published