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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...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Sui, Daniel Z. (Daniel Zhi), 1965-, Elwood, Sarah, Goodchild, Michael F.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2013.
Dordrecht ; New York : [2013]
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1 online resource (xi, 396 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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Contents:
  • Part 1. Public Participation and Citizen Science
  • Understanding the Value of VGI / Rob Feick and Stéphane Roche
  • To Volunteer or to Contribute Locational Information? Towards Truth in Labeling for Crowdsourced Geographic Information / Francis Harvey
  • Metadata Squared: Enhancing Its Usability for Volunteered Geographic Information and the GeoWeb / Barbara S. Poore and Eric B. Wolf
  • Situating the Adoption of VGI by Government / Peter A. Johnson and Renee E. Sieber
  • When Web 2.0 Meets Public Participation GIS (PPGIS): VGI and Spaces of Participatory Mapping in China / Wen Lin
  • Citizen Science and Volunteered Geographic Information: Overview and Typology of Participation / Muki Haklay
  • Volunteered Geographic Information, the Exaflood, and the Growing Digital Divide / Daniel Sui, Michael Goodchild and Sarah Elwood.
  • Part 2. Geographic Knowledge Production and Place Inference
  • Volunteered Geographic Information and Computational Geography: New Perspectives / Bin Jiang
  • The Evolution of Geo-Crowdsourcing: Bringing Volunteered Geographic Information to the Third Dimension / Marcus Goetz and Alexander Zipf
  • From Volunteered Geographic Information to Volunteered Geographic Services / Jim Thatcher
  • The Geographic Nature of Wikipedia Authorship / Darren Hardy
  • Inferring Thematic Places from Spatially Referenced Natural Language Descriptions / Benjamin Adams and Grant McKenzie
  • I Don't Come from Anywhere: Exploring the Role of the Geoweb and Volunteered Geographic Information in Rediscovering a Sense of Place in a Dispersed Aboriginal Community / Jon Corbett.
  • Part 3. Emerging Applications and New Challenges
  • Potential Contributions and Challenges of VGI for Conventional Topographic Base-Mapping Programs / David J. Coleman
  • We Know Who You Are and We Know Where You Live: A Research Agenda for Web Demographics / T. Edwin Chow
  • Volunteered Geographic Information, Actor-Network Theory, and Severe-Storm Reports / Mark H. Palmer and Scott Kraushaar
  • VGI as a Compilation Tool for Navigation Map Databases / Michael W. Dobson
  • VGI and Public Health: Possibilities and Pitfalls / Christopher Goranson, Sayone Thihalolipavan and Nicolás di Tada
  • VGI in Education: From K-12 to Graduate Studies / Thomas Bartoschek and Carsten Keßler
  • Prospects for VGI Research and the Emerging Fourth Paradigm / Sarah Elwood, Michael F. Goodchild and Daniel Sui.