Link-VGI: Pre-Conference Workshop at 19th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science 2016. Helsinki
Announcement and Call for Paper
The number of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and social media platforms is continuously growing, providing massive datasets of georeferenced content that is either actively contributed (e.g. adding data to OSM, Mapillary, or Flickr) or collected through more passive modes (e.g. enabling geolocation in Twitter feeds). Whereas contribution behavior for individual crowdsourcing applications has already been extensively analyzed in the literature, it is less understood if and how users participate in several crowd sourcing activities. Hence several research questions relevant to a better understanding of community involvement in data contributions have evolved. These include for example, whether activity spaces in different sources are spatially co-located or spatially distinct for individual contributors, or whether contributor communities evolve across platforms. As an example, users started to cross-link data from different platforms, e.g. by mapping OSM point of interests (POIs) and street features (e.g. street lamps, sidewalk information) based on Mapillary photographs, or by tagging Flickr pictures with OSM tags.
This workshop provides an opportunity for interested researchers to share ideas and findings on cross-platform data contributions. One portion in the workshop is dedicated to a hands-on session. In this session, basics of spatial data access through selected APIs and the extraction of summary statistics of the results will be illustrated.
TOPICS
The workshop shall focus, but is not limited to, the following topics and areas of research:
- User contribution patterns and data sharing across multiple VGI and social media platforms
- Accessing and visualization of VGI data from various platforms
- Understand differences in spatial/temporal coverage of contributions to different platforms
- Understanding how data are linked across different VGI/social media platforms
- What types of communities are evolving and emerging from VGI/social media platforms
- Investigating how cross-linked data are used in real-world applications
- Describing the effects of the growing number of VGI and social media on data quality and user behavior
- Assess the quality of cross-linked VGI
- Identifying current research questions and an emerging research agenda
Organization
Leading AGILE member and contact:
University of Heidelberg, Germany (Alexander Zipf)
Contributing AGILE members:
Maynooth University, Ireland (Peter Mooney)
Contributing non-AGILE members:
University of Florida, United States (Hartwig H. Hochmair)
Local Organizing Committee
Jamal Jokar Arsanjani, Adam Rousell (University of Heidelberg)
Levente Juhász (University of Florida)
Programme Committee
prelimnary:
Vyron (Byron) Antoniou, University College London, UK
Padraig Corcoran, Cardiff University, UK
Brent Hecht, University of Minnesota, United States
Hartwig Hochmair, University of Florida, United States
Peter Mooney, Maynooth University, Ireland
Dieter Pfoser, George Mason University, United States
Ross Purves, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Enrico Steiger, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Jamal Jokar Arsanjani, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Bernd Resch, University of Salzburg, Austria
Adam Rousell, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Hongchao Fan, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Alexander Zipf, University of Heidelberg, Germany
IMPORTANT DATES
- January 31st 2016 – Call for short papers opens.
- April 25th 2016 – Call for short papers ends. Review process begins.
- May 9th 2016 – Review process ends – Program committee decides on selected papers – authors notified.
- May 23rd 2016 – Camera ready copies due
- May 30th 2016 – Abstracts of selected papers available on the Link-VGI Website
- June 14th 2016 – Link-VGI Workshop
DETAILS OF PAPER SUBMISSION.
Submissions are welcome in the AGILE 2016 Conference short paper format for which templates are available from the AGILE conference Website
HOW TO SUBMIT
Submissions should be emailed as a PDF document to agile@uni-heidelberg.de.
REGISTRATION
Register for this workshop through the AGILE conference Website.
BEYOND THE WORKSHOP
Accepted workshop papers will be published on the workshop Website. Furthermore it is anticipated that a collaborative summary paper will be written summarizing the outcomes of the workshop. Depending on interest amongst participants the feasibility of a special interest journal will be investigated.
FURTHER INFORMATION will be made available at the Conference Website http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/gis/link_vgi.html
