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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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Dordrecht ; New York :
Springer,
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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.