Overview
- Cutting-edge, state-of-the-art inventory of research on VGI and crowdsourcing
- Interdisciplinary appeal for both professional and lay audience
- Balanced coverage of theories and applications
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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 chapters in this book explore both the theories and applications of crowdsourcing for geographic knowledge production with three sections focusing on 1). VGI, Public Participation, and Citizen Science; 2). Geographic Knowledge Production and Place Inference; and 3). Emerging Applications and New Challenges. This book argues that future progress in VGI research depends in large part on building strong linkages with diverse geographic scholarship. Contributors of this volume situate VGI research in geography’s core concerns with space and place, and offer several ways of addressing persistent challenges of quality assurance in VGI. This book positions VGI as part of a shift toward hybrid epistemologies, and potentially a fourth paradigm of data-intensive inquiry across the sciences. It also considers the implications of VGI and the exaflood for further time-space compression and new forms, degrees of digital inequality, the renewed importance of geography, and the role of crowdsourcing for geographic knowledge production.
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Keywords
- Conventional topographic base-mapping programs
- Crowd-sourced geographic information
- Crowdsourcing
- Emerging applications in VGI
- Exaflood
- Geo Web
- Geographic knowledge
- Growing digital divide
- K-12
- Navigation map databases
- Neogeography
- Participatory mapping in China
- Public participation GIS (PPGIS)
- User-generated content
- VGI and Public health
- VGI applications
- VGI in education
- Volunteered geographic information (VGI)
- Web 2.0 technologies
- Wikipedia authorship
Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Public Participation and Citizen Science
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Public Participation and Citizen Science
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Geographic Knowledge Production and Place Inference
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Geographic Knowledge Production and Place Inference
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Emerging Applications and New Challenges
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Emerging Applications and New Challenges
Reviews
From the reviews:
“Although there are many books on crowdsourcing in general, there is no other current work of this type that addresses geographic crowdsourcing, also referred to as volunteered geographic information—a central element of neogeography. … The chapters are well-written and edited and all present interesting and timely information. The book could be used as part of a seminar on geospatial science and provide fertile ground for discussion.” (Michael Peterson, The AAG Review of Books, Vol. 1 (3), 2013)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Crowdsourcing Geographic Knowledge
Book Subtitle: Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in Theory and Practice
Editors: Daniel Sui, Sarah Elwood, Michael Goodchild
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4587-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4586-5Published: 08 August 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9826-7Published: 21 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4587-2Published: 10 August 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 396
Topics: Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery