CONCEPTS, TECHNOLOGIES, SYSTEMS AND USERS OF THE NEXT GEOSS March 24-26, 2015, Norfolk, VA, USA |
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ABSTRACTCitizen Scientists and Crowdsourcing Muki Haklay, UCL, UK The talk will provide a brief introduction to crowdsourced geographic information (also known as volunteered geographic information or VGI) and citizen science. We will see how the three eras of environmental information shaped public access to, and production of environmental information, noting that we&srquo;re entering an era in which the public participate in production of information. We then look a closer look at citizen science and VGI, grouping it to ecological/biological observations, volunteer computing, volunteer thinking, DIY science and, finally, community science. In each class we will see several examples, and also analyse different levels of engagement in a given project. Finally, we will look at 4 most common questions/issues that are raised about this type of information: data quality, interoperability and reuse, privacy, and finally, motivations and incentives. |