[GeoForAll-UrbanScience] Spatial analysis of social media
Jeff McKenna
jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
Wed Sep 30 08:34:25 PDT 2015
Hi Charlie,
OSGeo has a whole community of volunteers who manage the OSGeo
architecture, they are referred to as SAC (or Systems Architecture
Committee). This kind of question should of course be asked directly to
them (through an email to their mailing list, subscribe at
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/sac). There you would ask for
opinions of hosting and listing your needs (there might be an open
source version, able to install on our servers, of BaseCamp for
example). Likely then they/SAC would ask you to file a ticket in their
Trac system to have that software installed
(https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/), and then through that ticket you would
get the login details, test, and provide feedback to SAC.
So, you can see, this needs a champion from GeoForAll, to follow through
from beginning to end.
Note that I am not part of SAC so I cannot make any decisions. But,
that is the process, and to be honest, you should definitely ask them
directly, I find them/SAC very open to helping communities. But yes it
takes time to discuss all that with them, and test, and configure, so a
commitment/champion is for sure needed.
I hope that helps,
-jeff
On 2015-09-30 11:12 AM, Charles Schweik wrote:
> Thanks Dimitris and Sven for your responses.
>
> Jeff:
>
> I haven't kept up with the "Is OSGeo relevant" email thread, but the
> hosting of the OSGeo wiki and other web-functions has always been a big
> benefit. Without OSGeo's web infrastructure global collective action
> would not be happening.
>
> Is it possible to have OSGeo host something that provides other
> collaboration online functions? I'm not sure what this looks like. The
> group I am also working with, PublicLab.org, has this very interesting
> open access "research notes" structure and they are now working on
> better ways of searching those posts. But I can envision this for
> various GeoForAll thematic groups or subgroups, like the social media
> geocrowdsourcing group.
>
> One proprietary option is BaseCamp. But that is a 'login' type system
> rather than an open access system.
>
> Is there a role for OSGeo here in supporting some kind of collaboration
> system that goes beyond wikis and email?
>
> Cheers,
> Charlie
>
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Sven Schade
> <sven.schade at jrc.ec.europa.eu <mailto:sven.schade at jrc.ec.europa.eu>> wrote:
>
> Hi Carlie, all,
>
> Some free and open tools and training material on this would be great to
> have...
>
> We did several experiments on this over the last years (see one
> poster with
> that might give a few ideas and a more detailed paper attached). In
> order to
> facilitate these works and move into a wider more structured toolset, a
> colleague designed and partially developed a framework to connect
> existing
> libraries (mainly via python). The result is a quite techy and software
> engineering piece, that was unfortunately somewhat abandon after he
> left our
> group. If you are interested, I would be happy to get this back to
> life and
> see if it might be of value as a baseline and initial content. Just
> let me
> know!!
>
> Best,
> Sven
>
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> [mailto:geoforall-urbanscience-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> <mailto:geoforall-urbanscience-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>] On Behalf Of
> Dimitris Kotzinos
> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 8:00 PM
> To: geoforall-urbanscience at lists.osgeo.org
> <mailto:geoforall-urbanscience at lists.osgeo.org>; Charles Schweik
> Cc: Jeff McKenna; Salma El Idrissi
> Subject: [GeoForAll-UrbanScience] Spatial analysis of social media
>
> Hi Charlie,
>
> very interesting idea and thanks for sharing.
> I have actually started for some time now a work along these lines
> that I
> will be happy to share. I am putting a very condensed description
> because I
> am off for a trip (to US actually) so my time is very limited and I
> apologize to that but if you or anybody else find this interesting
> please
> let me know.
> So we have created a platform that process tweets in real time and
> tries to
> identifies important events based on that (like e.g. an earthquake
> or even a
> football game). Part of the work was to explore the tweets we collect
> through some spatial analytics lenses trying to understand for example
> simple things like the tweets distribution in Greece according to
> space and
> time e.g. within a week. This is quite simple but it is a start. I
> had to
> leave it there because the project funding was limited.
> OK, this is preliminary work but the platform works quite OK. I have not
> released this yet but the plan is to be of course open source. It is
> something that needs some more support to become really operational to a
> more professional level but it is there.
>
> So if of interest please let me know and we can keep the conversation
> running, I hope I did not confuse everybody!
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Dimitris
>
>
>
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> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 08:26:02 -0400
> From: Charles Schweik <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu
> <mailto:cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu>>
> To: geoforall-urbanscience at lists.osgeo.org
> <mailto:geoforall-urbanscience at lists.osgeo.org>
> Cc: Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
> <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>>, Salma El Idrissi
> <selidrissi at umass.edu <mailto:selidrissi at umass.edu>>
> Subject: [GeoForAll-UrbanScience] Spatial analysis of social media
> (e.g., tweets)
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> Hi GeoForAll Urban Science thematic,
>
> 1) I have a graduate student interested in this topic. Does anyone
> know of
> any good geocrowdsourcing training literature around how one
> approaches the
> spatial analysis of tweets or other social media posts?
>
> 2) It would be great if we could somehow get operational a communication
> platform like the one PublicLab.org has where we could have students
> post
> research notes [1] that other interested people in our group or
> outside of
> the group could monitor. For example, people interested in the above
> topic
> or other topics. Any ideas on how we might do that? I'm copying Jeff
> McKenna
> because this could be something that would reside on the OSGeo web
> platform.
> I think what I am suggesting is a little different than a wiki or a
> blog...
> any ideas on how we might implement such an idea?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Charlie
>
> [1] http://publiclab.org/research/
>
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> Charlie Schweik
>
> Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Dept of Environmental
> Conservation and Center for Public Policy and Administration
>
> Personal website: http://people.umass.edu/cschweik
> Publications: http://works.bepress.com/charles_schweik/
>
> Author, Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software (MIT
> Press, 2012)
> - see http://tinyurl.com/d3e4545
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> Administration
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