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<p><em> reminder: Deadline approaching April 25th (sorry for
cross-posting)<br>
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</em> <strong>LINKing and analyzing Volunteered Geographic
Information (VGI) across different platforms</strong></p>
<p><i>Workshop at 19th AGILE International Conference on Geographic
Information Science 2016. Helsinki, June 14th 2016</i></p>
<p> <strong>Deadline for Call for Short Paper</strong> (AGILE short
paper format): <strong>April 25th 2016</strong></p>
<p>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 behaviour 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The workshop shall focus, but is not limited to, the following
topics and areas of research:</p>
<ul>
<li>User contribution patterns and data sharing across multiple
VGI and social media platforms</li>
<li> Accessing and visualization of VGI data from various
platforms</li>
<li>Understand differences in spatial/temporal coverage of
contributions to different platforms</li>
<li>Understanding how data are linked across different VGI/social
media platforms</li>
<li>What types of communities are evolving and emerging from
VGI/social media platforms</li>
<li>Investigating how cross-linked data are used in real-world
applications</li>
<li>Describing the effects of the growing number of VGI and social
media on data quality and user behavior</li>
<li> Assess the quality of cross-linked VGI</li>
<li>Identifying current research questions and an emerging
research agenda</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Programme Committee</strong><br>
Vyron (Byron) Antoniou, University College London, UK<br>
Padraig Corcoran, Cardiff University, UK<br>
Brent Hecht, University of Minnesota, United States<br>
Hartwig Hochmair, University of Florida, United States<br>
Peter Mooney, Maynooth University, Ireland<br>
Dieter Pfoser, George Mason University, United States<br>
Ross Purves, University of Zurich, Switzerland<br>
Georg Gartner, TU Vienna, Austria<br>
Enrico Steiger, University of Heidelberg, Germany<br>
Jamal Jokar Arsanjani, University of Heidelberg, Germany<br>
Bernd Resch, University of Salzburg, Austria<br>
Adam Rousell, University of Heidelberg, Germany<br>
Hongchao Fan, University of Heidelberg, Germany<br>
Alexander Zipf, University of Heidelberg, Germany</p>
<p><strong>IMPORTANT DATES</strong></p>
<p> <strong>April 25th 2016 - Call for short papers ends.</strong>
Review process begins.<br>
May 9th 2016 - Review process ends - Program committee decides on
selected papers - authors notified.<br>
May 23rd 2016 - Camera ready copies due<br>
May 30th 2016 - Abstracts of selected papers available on the
Link-VGI Website<br>
<strong>June 14th 2016 - Link-VGI Workshop</strong></p>
<p><strong>Further Information and Submission Details can be found
at the Workshop WebSite: </strong><br>
<a href="http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/gis/link_vgi.html">http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/gis/link_vgi.html</a><br>
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