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<h2><strong>1st Call for Paper: VGI-Analytics 2017</strong></h2>
<h3><strong>Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI):
Integration, ANALYsis, applICationS</strong></h3>
<h3><strong>Tuesday, 9th May 2017, <a title="See the
location of AGILE 2017 in Wageningen University, The
Netherlands on OpenStreetMap"
href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.98528&mlon=5.66394#map=18/51.98528/5.66394"
target="_blank">Wageningen University</a>, The
Netherlands at <a title="See the Homepage of the
AGILE 2017 Conference"
href="https://agile-online.org/index.php/conference/conference-2017"
target="_blank">AGILE 2017</a></strong></h3>
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<div id="about" class="featurette"><br>
<h2 class="featurette-heading">VGI-Analytics 2017 is <span
class="text-muted">the 4th workshop in a series of
AGILE pre-conference workshops</span></h2>
<p class="lead text-justify">Volunteered Geographic
Information (VGI) and social media data have become part
of our everyday lives over the past few years. Whereas
in the early beginnings of crowd-sourced data the
collection occurred primarily to isolated, individual
platforms, contribution patterns are now beginning to be
more intertwined between different platforms, both at
the application level and at the user side. This means
that crowd-sourcing applications nowadays begin to offer
opportunities to share data between them during data
collection and contribution processes, for example, by
tweeting an Instagram image or by viewing a Mapillary
image layer while editing OpenStreetMap data.</p>
<p class="lead text-justify">This advancement on the
application side can lead to novel analysis methods of
user contribution patterns. Recent data contribution
trends show also that geographic data are beginning to
be linked across different VGI and social media
platforms. As an example, users started to cross-link
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
to facilitate automatic extraction of descriptive
information for Flickr images. This cross-linkage of
data between different platforms brings new
opportunities and challenges, including questions of
data quality and the formation of user communities
across platforms. This change in contribution patterns
may require different analysis techniques than for data
contributed to individual data platforms. The number of
VGI and social media platforms is continuously growing,
providing new data sets to be analysed. A recent example
is the Pokémon Go application which triggered the
crowd-sourced local business review Website “Yelp” to
add a Pokémon stop attribute. This attribute can reveal
in which parts of a city Pokémon stops are placed and
thus where Pokémon Go players explore Pokémon stops.</p>
<p class="lead text-justify">This workshop provides an
opportunity for interested researchers to share ideas
and findings on cross-platform data contributions,
innovative analysis approaches, current data fusion
methods, real-world applications using cross-linked
data, and novel crowd-sourcing and social media
platforms. It allows participants also to discuss
technical questions and innovations on data access. One
portion in the workshop is dedicated to a collaborative
session, where break-out groups will discuss some
specific aspects of cross-linked VGI data. Concurrently
we plan to offer a technical hands-on session on VGI
related APIs and software as well.</p>
<p class="lead text-justify"><strong>The Call for Papers
will include a call for <strong>free open access</strong>
<strong>journal</strong> paper submissions which will
reviewed and considered for inclusion in a <strong>special
issue </strong>of the journal Geo-spatial
Information Science <a
href="http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/est/gsis"
target="_blank">http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/est/gsis</a>
in late 2017.</strong></p>
<p class="lead text-justify"><strong></strong></p>
<p class="lead text-justify"> </p>
<div class="alert alert-success">
<p class="lead text-justify"><strong>GSIS is now an Open
Access journal!</strong> All article publishing
charges (APC) will be covered by Wuhan University
(unless otherwise stated), so authors will have the
benefits of open access at no cost.</p>
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<div id="about" class="featurette"><br>
<h2 class="featurette-heading">VGI-Analytics 2017: <span
class="text-muted">The Organisers</span></h2>
<p class="lead text-justify">The VGI-Analytics 2017
workshop will be organised and co-chaired by:</p>
<ul class="lead text-justify">
<li><strong><a href="http://www.cs.nuim.ie/%7Epmooney/"
target="_blank">Peter Mooney</a></strong>:
Maynooth University, Ireland; Email: <kbd><a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:Peter.Mooney@nuim.ie">Peter.Mooney@nuim.ie</a></kbd></li>
<li><strong><a
href="http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/personen/gis_zipf.html"
target="_blank">Alexander Zipf</a></strong>:
Heidelberg University, Germany; Email: <kbd><a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:zipf@uni-heidelberg.de">zipf@uni-heidelberg.de</a></kbd></li>
<li><strong><a href="https://jamaljokar.wordpress.com/"
target="_blank">Jamal Jokar</a></strong>: Aalborg
University Copenhagen, Denmark; Email: <kbd><a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:jja@plan.aau.dk">jja@plan.aau.dk</a></kbd></li>
<li><strong><a
href="http://flrec.ifas.ufl.edu/geomatics/hochmair/"
target="_blank">Hartwig H. Hochmair</a></strong>:
University of Florida, United States; Email: <kbd><a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:hhhochmair@ufl.edu">hhhochmair@ufl.edu</a></kbd></li>
</ul>
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<div id="about" class="featurette"><br>
<h2 class="featurette-heading">VGI-Analytics 2017 <span
class="text-muted">Workshop Topics and Themes</span></h2>
<p class="lead text-justify">The VGI-Analytics 2017
workshop will discuss, but not be limited to, the
following workshop topics and themes:</p>
<ul class="lead">
<li>Joint analysis of crowd-sourced VGI/social media
data originating from different data sources</li>
<li>Technical aspects of crowd-sourced data fusion</li>
<li>Spatio-temporal analysis of activity patterns for
individual users across multiple VGI and/or social
media platforms</li>
<li>Quality assessment of VGI/social media data through
analysis of data from different platforms</li>
<li>Analysis of cross-linked data and cross-link editing
methods in VGI and social media platforms and its
applications</li>
<li>New sources of VGI and social media data</li>
<li>VGI across different regions and cultures</li>
<li>Semantic issues arising from the conflation or
cross-linkage of several different sources of VGI</li>
<li>Tailoring VGI for different applications</li>
</ul>
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<div id="about" class="featurette"><br>
<h2 class="featurette-heading">VGI-Analytics 2017: <span
class="text-muted">Important Dates</span></h2>
<p class="lead"> </p>
<ul class="list-unstyled lead text-justify">
<li><em></em> <strong>Dec 21st 2016</strong>: Call for
short workshop papers and <span
style="text-decoration: underline">full journal
papers</span> opens. This call is different to the
AGILE 2017 call for short papers.</li>
<li><em></em> <strong>Mar 15 2017</strong>: Call for
short workshop papers and full journal papers ends. In
the coming weeks we will update this website with
information on how both the short workshop papers and
full journal papers will be submitted.</li>
<li><em></em> <strong>Apr 4 2017</strong>: Review
process ends. Program committee decides on which
workshop papers are accepted. The authors of these
papers are notified and invited to present their work
at VGI-Analytics 2017 workshop.<br>
The status of the submitted journal papers will also
be communicated to authors (accepted/revisions
required/rejected). There will be an invitation of
authors of journal papers of sufficient quality to
present and take part in the workshop;</li>
<li><em></em> <strong>Apr 21 2017</strong>: Camera
ready copies of workshop papers due; journal paper
authors can prepare an abstract of their journal paper
for the workshop Website (but don’t need to have their
journal paper ready at that time). It should be noted
that all outputs from the workshop will be openly
available on the VGI-Analytics 2017 workshop website.</li>
<li><em></em> <strong>May 9 2017: <em></em>
VGI-Analytics Workshop <em></em></strong> at <a
href="https://agile-online.org/index.php/conference/conference-2017"
target="_blank">AGILE 2017</a>.</li>
<li><em></em> <strong>May 26 2017</strong>: Revisions
of journal paper submission due (this gives authors
enough time to integrate feedback from the workshop);
re-review process begins (may not be necessary for all
papers)</li>
<li><em></em> <strong>June 9 2017</strong>: Re-review
process of journal papers ends; notification of
authors</li>
<li><em></em> <strong>June 30 2017</strong>: Finalized
journal papers due</li>
<li><em></em> <strong>September/October 2017</strong>:
Special Issue Published.</li>
</ul>
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<div id="services" class="featurette"><br>
<h2 class="featurette-heading">VGI-Analytics 2017: <span
class="text-muted">A pre-conference workshop series</span></h2>
<p class="lead text-justify">VGI-Analytics follows on from
a very successful pre-AGILE conference workshop in
Helsinki in June 2016 called Link-VGI: LINKing and
analyzing Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)
across different platforms. Please see the workshop
web-page for <a
href="http://www.cs.nuim.ie/%7Epmooney/LinkVGI2016/"
target="_blank">LinkVGI 2016</a>. Indeed the workshop
organisers have been working together in this general
research areas for several years now. In 2015 the <a
href="http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/gis/rich-vgi.html">RICH-VGI
workshop</a> (enRICHment of volunteered geographic
information (VGI): Techniques, practices and current
state of knowledge) was organised before AGILE 2015 in
Lisbon, Portugal. An earlier pre-AGILE conference
workshop <a
href="http://flrec.ifas.ufl.edu/geomatics/agile2013/index.html">ACTIVITY</a>
(Action and Interaction in Volunteered Geographic
Information) was held in Leuven in May 2013 before AGILE
2013.</p>
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<div id="contact" class="featurette"><br>
<h2 class="featurette-heading">VGI-Analytics 2017: <span
class="text-muted">Workshop Timetable</span></h2>
<p class="text-justify lead">The workshop will be a full
day workshop. We intend to begin at 09:00 and finish at
around 17:00. This will allow workshop delegates to
either return back to their accommodation before the
evening reception or to explore the university grounds
or city of Wageningen. In the tentative outline below we
have provided two options for parallel sessions in the
afternoon. We aim to attract a high number of attendees
and consequently we believe that we can provide the
option of both sessions.</p>
<p class="text-justify lead">The tentative outline of the
workshop is as follows below. The timings have been
designed so that they work with the timetables of the
other pre AGILE workshops for the purposes of coffee
breaks and lunches.</p>
<table class="table table-bordered lead" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><strong><em></em> 09:00 - 09:30</strong></td>
<td>Welcome and some introductions from the
organisers</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong><em></em> 09:30 - 12:30</strong></td>
<td>Presentations and lectures from delegates -
these will be drawn from submissions to the
workshop after a Call For Papers process</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong><em></em> 12:30 - 13:30</strong></td>
<td>LUNCH</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong><em></em> 13:30 - 15:30</strong></td>
<td><strong>Session Option 1 Collaborative Session</strong>
the idea here would be to break the workshop up
into 4 - 5 small groups. Each group would be led
by one of the organisers or an experienced
academic/researcher. Then each group would try to
tackle some of the current challenges in
VGI-Analytics with the view of working towards the
draft for a multi-author journal paper. At the end
of the session each group will have gathered
together a roughwork document of ideas,
formulations, plans, etc to bring their paper
forward after the workshop. Very often one of the
negative aspects of workshops is that the
potential energy for collaboration and future
networking diminishes after the workshop is
finished. A tangible and shared collaborative
output like this could help build capacity for
sustaining this collaboration. This is also an
excellent opportunity for PhD students and other
young researchers to work and collaborate with
more experienced academics/researchers.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><br>
</td>
<td><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong><em></em> 15:30 - 16:00</strong></td>
<td>Coffee</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong><em></em> 16:00 - 16:30</strong></td>
<td>Short feedback and summary from each group
leader</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong><em></em> 16:30 - 17:00</strong></td>
<td>Closing - summary and overview of the day from
the Workshop Chair. Plans for the future.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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<h2 class="featurette-heading">VGI-Analytics 2017: <span
class="text-muted">Directions and Logistics</span></h2>
<p class="text-justify lead">The workshop will take place
on Tuesday 9th May 2017 as a pre-conference workshop at
<a title="See the Homepage of the AGILE 2017 Conference"
href="https://agile-online.org/index.php/conference/conference-2017"
target="_blank">AGILE 2017</a> in <a title="See the
location of AGILE 2017 in Wageningen University, The
Netherlands on OpenStreetMap"
href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.98528&mlon=5.66394#map=18/51.98528/5.66394"
target="_blank">Wageningen University</a>, The
Netherlands.</p>
<p class="text-justify lead">The <a title="See the
Homepage of the AGILE 2017 Conference for information
on how to travel to the conference and workshop"
href="https://agile-online.org/index.php/practical-and-local-information-2017/travel-information-2017"
target="_blank">AGILE 2017</a> website will contain
information and directions of how to travel to
Wageningen University.</p>
<p class="text-justify lead"><strong><em></em>
REGISTRATION</strong> for the VGI-Analytics 2017 will
be handled directly with your registration for the AGILE
2017 conference. <span style="text-decoration:
underline">This webpage will not provide a facility to
register for the workshop</span>. There will be a
small registration fee for this workshop which is
collected by AGILE.</p>
<p class="text-justify lead"><a
href="http://www.cs.nuim.ie/%7Epmooney/VGI-Analytics2017/"
target="_blank">Workshop WebSite:
http://www.cs.nuim.ie/~pmooney/VGI-Analytics2017/</a></p>
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Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT)
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