Crowdsourcing Geographic Knowledge Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in Theory and Practice /

The phenomenon of volunteered geographic information is part of a profound transformation in how geographic data, information, and knowledge are produced and circulated. By situating volunteered geographic information (VGI) in the context of big-data deluge and the data-intensive inquiry, the 20 cha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Sui, Daniel (Editor ), Elwood, Sarah (Editor ), Goodchild, Michael (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edición:1st ed. 2013.
Temas:
Geographic information systems.
Data mining.
Geographical Information System.
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1: VGI, the exaflood, and the growing digital divide: Daniel Sui, Michael Goodchild, & Sarah Elwood
  • Section I.  Public Participation and Citizen Science
  • Chapter 2: Understanding the value of VGI: Rob Feick & Stéphane Roche
  • Chapter 3: To volunteer or to contribute locational information? Towards truth in labeling for crowd-sourced geographic information: Francis Harvey
  • Chapter 4: Metadata squared: Enhancing its usability for volunteered geographic information and  the GeoWeb: Barbara Poore &  Eric Wolf
  • Chapter 5: Situating the adoption of VGI by government: Peter Johnson & Renee Sieber
  • Chapter 6: When Web 2.0 meets public participation GIS (PPGIS): VGI and spaces of participatory mapping in China: Wen Lin
  • Chapter 7: Citizen science and volunteered geographic information: Overview and typology of participation: Muki Haklay
  • Section II. Geographic Knowledge Production  and Place Inference
  • Chapter 8: Volunteered geographic information and computational geography: New perspectives: Bin Jiang
  • Chapter 9: The evolution of geo-crowdsourcing: Bringing volunteered geographic information to the third dimension: Marcus Goetz & Alexander Zipf: Chapter 10: From volunteered geographic information to volunteered geographic services:Jim Thatcher
  • Chapter 11: The geographic nature of Wikipedia authorship
  • Darren Hardy
  • Chapter 12: Inferring thematic places from spatially referenced natural language observations: Benjamin Adams & Grant McKenzie
  • Chapter 13: "I don't come from anywhere:" Exploring the role of VGI and the Geoweb in rediscovering a sense of place in a dispersed Aboriginal community: Jon Corbett
  • Section III.   Emerging Applications  and New Challenges
  • Chapter 14: Potential contributions and challenges of VGI for conventional topographic base-mapping programs: David Coleman
  • Chapter 15: "We know who you are and we know where you live:"A research agenda for web demographics: T. Edwin Chow
  • Chapter 16: Volunteered geographic information, actor-network theory, and severe storm reports: Mark Palmer & Scott Kraushaar
  • Chapter 17: VGI as a compilation tool for navigation map databases: Michael Dobson
  • Chapter 18: VGI and public health: Possibilities and pitfalls: Christopher Goranson, Sayone Thihalolipavan, &  Nicolás di Tada
  • Chapter 19: VGI in education: From K-12 to graduate studies: Thomas Bartoschek & Carsten Keßler
  • Chapter 20: The prospects VGI research and the emerging fourth paradigm: Sarah Elwood, Michael Goodchild, & Daniel Sui.

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