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"This book focuses on the study of the remarkable new source of geographic information that has become available in the form of user-generated content accessible over the Internet through mobile and Web applications. The exploitation, integration and application of these sources, termed volunteered geographic information (VGI) or crowdsourced geographic information (CGI), offer scientists an unprecedented opportunity to conduct research on a variety of topics at multiple scales and for diversified objectives. The Handbook is organized in five parts, addressing the fundamental questions: What motivates citizens to provide such information in the public domain, and what factors govern/predict its validity?What methods might be used to validate such information? Can VGI be framed within the larger domain of sensor networks, in which inert and static sensors are replaced or combined by intelligent and mobile humans equipped with sensing devices? What limitations are imposed on VGI by differential access to broadband Internet, mobile phones, and other communication technologies, and by concerns over privacy? How do VGI and crowdsourcing enable innovation applications to benefit human society? Chapters examine how crowdsourcing techniques and methods, and the VGI phenomenon, have motivated a multidisciplinary research community to identify both fields of applications and quality criteria depending on the use of VGI. Besides harvesting tools and storage of these data, research has paid remarkable attention to these information resources, in an age when information and participation is one of the most important drivers of development. The collection opens questions and points to new research directions in addition to the findings that each of the authors demonstrates. Despite rapid progress in VGI research, this Handbook also shows that there are technical, social, political and methodological challenges that require further studies and research."
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open geo-data --- sensor web --- crowdsourcing --- geographical information systems --- Geospatial data --- Geospatial data. --- Data, Geospatial --- Geographic information systems --- Geography-General --- Programming --- Geography
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"Transparency and citizen engagement remain essential to good government and sound public policy. Indeed, they may well be the key to restoring trust in government itself, currently at an all-time low in Australia. It is ironic, then, that this has occurred at a time when the technological potential for information dissemination and interaction has never been greater. Opening Government: Transparency and Engagement in the Information Age explores new horizons and scenarios for better governance in the context of the new information age, focusing on the potentials and pitfalls for governments (and governance more broadly) operating in the new, information-rich environment. Its contributors, a range of international and Australian governance academics and practitioners, ask what are the challenges to our governing traditions and practices in the new information age, and where can better outcomes be expected using future technologies. They explore the fundamental ambiguities extant in opening up government, with governments intending to become far more transparent in providing information and in information sharing, but also more motivated to engage with other data sources, data systems and social technologies."
Transparency in government --- Government in the sunshine --- Open government (Transparency in government) --- Openness in government --- Sunshine, Government in the --- Transparence in government --- Public administration --- australia --- public policy --- transparency --- digital technology --- Crowdsourcing --- New Zealand
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Participer et faire participer les citoyens, les publics ? Qui participe, comment et jusqu’où ? Que devient le professionnel avec ce nouveau paradigme ? Comment emporter l’adhésion des habitants ? De plus en plus de bibliothèques s’engagent activement dans la participation, selon des modalités et des niveaux d’implication variés. Cette mutation des pratiques renouvelle les réflexions engagées autour des publics : ne plus seulement mettre les publics au centre du cercle mais créer les conditions pour les accompagner à dessiner ce cercle. Empowerment, co-construction, crowdsourcing, savoirs partagés, participation démocratique… cet ouvrage permet de clarifier les notions attachées aux dynamiques participatives et propose un cadre de réflexion qui permettra aux bibliothécaires de construire leurs modes d’action entre PirateBox, BiblioRemix, comités d’usagers, design de service et autres formes de projets participatifs. Organisé en trois parties - Repenser la bibliothèque ensemble, Partager les savoirs, Décider ensemble ? – ce volume présente également un ensemble de témoignages de praticiens du sujet, en France et aux États-Unis, de la préfiguration d’une bibliothèque à son réaménagement, en passant par la création de plateformes collaboratives et de nouveaux services. L’expérience d’un musée et l’aventure d’un centre social viennent enrichir le panorama.
Libraries --- Organizational behavior --- Bibliothèques --- Comportement organisationnel --- Public relations --- Bibliothèques --- Library management --- Libraries - Public relations --- Information Science & Library Science --- biblioBox --- biblioRemix --- bibliothèque-centre social --- bibliothèques de la Ville de Paris --- comités d’usagers --- co-construction --- crowdsourcing --- démocratie participative --- design participatif --- États-Unis --- Musée dauphinois --- pratiques participatives
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"Showcases refereed papers dealing with all mathematical, computational and applied aspects of social computing"--Journal home page.
Human computation --- Online social networks --- Computer networks --- Computer networks. --- Human computation. --- Online social networks. --- Electronic social networks --- Social networking Web sites --- Crowdsourcing --- Human-based computation --- Human computation systems --- Communication systems, Computer --- Computer communication systems --- Data networks, Computer --- ECNs (Electronic communication networks) --- Electronic communication networks --- Networks, Computer --- Teleprocessing networks --- Social networks --- Social computing --- Mathematics of social networks --- Computational aspects of social networks --- Therory of social computing --- Social media --- Web sites --- Distributed artificial intelligence --- Human-computer interaction --- Data transmission systems --- Digital communications --- Electronic systems --- Information networks --- Telecommunication --- Cyberinfrastructure --- Electronic data processing --- Network computers --- Sociotechnical systems --- Crowdsourcing (Distributed artificial intelligence) --- Distributed processing --- social computing --- complex networks --- social media --- Virtual communities --- Computer Science --- Computer. Automation --- Communities, Online (Online social networks) --- Communities, Virtual (Online social networks) --- Online communities (Online social networks)
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The book features contributions that report original research in the theoretical, technological, and social aspects of geoinformation methods, as applied to supporting citizen science. Specifically, the book focuses on the technological aspects of the field and their application toward the recruitment of volunteers and the collection, management, and analysis of geotagged information to support volunteer involvement in scientific projects. Internationally renowned research groups share research in three areas: First, the key methods of geoinformatics within citizen science initiatives to support scientists in discovering new knowledge in specific application domains or in performing relevant activities, such as reliable geodata filtering, management, analysis, synthesis, sharing, and visualization; second, the critical aspects of citizen science initiatives that call for emerging or novel approaches of geoinformatics to acquire and handle geoinformation; and third, novel geoinformatics research that could serve in support of citizen science.
education --- geoinformatics --- GIS education --- classification accuracy --- latent class analysis --- location-based social networks (LBSNs) --- geoinformation in citizen science --- toponym --- recruitment --- community mapping --- user preference --- land administration systems --- positional accuracy --- sample size --- spatial proximity --- crowdsourced geoinformation collection and analysis --- air quality estimation --- digital cartography --- crowdsourcing --- VGI in citizen science --- crowdsourced data collection --- social relationship effect --- analysis --- GIS --- data quality --- opportunistic data --- volunteer --- volunteered geographic information (VGI) --- VGI --- data fusion --- algorithms --- OpenStreetMap --- volunteer geographic information --- citizen science --- ensemble --- spatial bias --- projects survey --- Alaska --- marine mammal --- brown marmorated stink bug --- social media --- Environmental niche modeling --- data analysis --- Pentatomidae --- QGIS --- MaxEnt --- spatial accuracy --- clustering --- air pollution --- data import --- sky images
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There is pressing evidence of phenomena, linked to meteorology and climate, which are modifying their temporal occurrence and which have a very evident impact on the safety and health of populations residing in cities. The urban problem at the beginning of the second set of twenty years of the new century requires a complete rethinking of the way of aggregation of man who, today, represents a large part of the world population due to increasingly accelerated urbanization processes over time. The human being has become a citizen, and within the city limits, he tries to develop his life expectancy by seizing opportunities from this. This search for well-being, understood as a complete state of man, at once physiological and psychological and social, can be thwarted by an urban structure that is not functionally capable of providing answers. The climate problem exacerbates this problem by strongly stressing the contradictions of living. Science, technology, and politics are today able to give answers if applied wisely in a joint effort, in a unit of language. This book proposes several solutions that can be implemented today, ranging from a full understanding of phenomena to adaptation policies for solving problems. The most pressing invitation is addressed precisely to politics to make cities more resilient and safe.
ACCCRN --- Climate change adaptation --- institutionalising adaptation --- hybrid institutionalism --- mainstreaming resilience --- urban resilience and adaptation --- urban green system --- ecosystem services --- climate change benefits --- resilient city --- urban resilient development --- green urban planning --- pollution flow patterns --- wind circulation patterns --- emission inventory --- criteria pollutants --- Mexico City --- urban heat island --- urbanization --- urban surface energy balance --- fluidodynamic modeling --- Envi-Met --- human biometeorology --- thermal comfort --- interdisciplinarity --- climate change adaptation --- thermal sensitive design --- web-based platform --- early warning system --- vulnerability simulations --- flood risk maps --- rainfall estimates --- microwave links --- CML --- crowdsourcing --- sensible targets --- urban greening --- UrbClim model --- water bodies --- systems change --- innovation --- nature-based solutions --- cities --- urban climate --- open data --- data sources --- urban climate monitoring
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This Special Issue includes papers on physical phenomena, such as wind-driven flows, coastal flooding, and turbidity currents, and modeling techniques, such as model comparison, model coupling, parallel computation, and domain decomposition. These papers illustrate the need for modeling coastal ocean flows with multiple physical processes at different scales. Additionally, these papers reflect the current status of such modeling of coastal ocean flows, and they present a roadmap with numerical methods, data collection, and artificial intelligence as future endeavors.
high performance computing --- HPC --- PETSc --- parallelization --- scalability --- parallel performance --- streams --- curvilinear --- non-hydrostatic --- ocean modeling --- GCCOM --- open boundaries --- domain decomposition --- variational data assimilation --- inverse problems --- shallow water equations --- boundary conditions --- mathematical modelling --- coastal ocean modelling --- computational methods --- hydrodynamic --- modeling --- sea level rise --- mobile application --- app --- crowdsourcing --- SCHISM --- Tidewatch --- StormSense --- Catch the King --- downstream blocking --- compound flooding --- coastal storm surge and inundation --- explosive lateral flooding --- hurricane inland and upland flooding --- coastal modelling --- operational forecasting --- model evaluation --- inter-comparison --- NEMO --- FVCOM --- Ocean Protection Plan --- turbidity current --- suspended sediment --- numerical model --- Gulf of Mexico --- cold front --- Hurricane Barry --- numerical simulation --- subtidal hydrodynamics --- multi-inlet --- volume flux --- multiscale --- multiphysics --- model coupling --- data collection --- machine learning
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This book is a collection of the articles published the Special Issue of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information on “Citizen Science and Geospatial Capacity Building”. The articles cover a wide range of topics regarding the applications of citizen science from a geospatial technology perspective. Several applications show the importance of Citizen Science (CitSci) and volunteered geographic information (VGI) in various stages of geodata collection, processing, analysis and visualization; and for demonstrating the capabilities, which are covered in the book. Particular emphasis is given to various problems encountered in the CitSci and VGI projects with a geospatial aspect, such as platform, tool and interface design, ontology development, spatial analysis and data quality assessment. The book also points out the needs and future research directions in these subjects, such as; (a) data quality issues especially in the light of big data; (b) ontology studies for geospatial data suited for diverse user backgrounds, data integration, and sharing; (c) development of machine learning and artificial intelligence based online tools for pattern recognition and object identification using existing repositories of CitSci and VGI projects; and (d) open science and open data practices for increasing the efficiency, decreasing the redundancy, and acknowledgement of all stakeholders.
participatory toponyms --- knowledge sharing --- public participation --- citizen science --- geospatial capacity building --- volunteered geographic information --- social media --- spatiotemporal bias --- CitSci --- earthquake --- intensity mapping --- disaster mitigation --- spatial kriging --- volunteered geographic information (VGI) --- data contribution activities --- spatial and temporal patterns --- biases --- eBird --- community-based geoportal --- crowdsourced earth observation product --- remote sensing --- spatial data infrastructure (SDI) --- crowdsourced data quality --- GeoWeb --- outdoor air pollution --- symptom mapping --- data quality --- web application --- water quality --- community-based monitoring --- machine learning --- Indian monsoon --- Jacobin cuckoo --- Maxent --- species distribution model --- habitat suitability --- range expansion --- WorldClim --- CMIP --- crowdsourcing --- participatory GIS
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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. This boldly original book traces the evolution of documentary film and photography as they migrated onto digital platforms during the first decades of the twenty-first century. Kris Fallon examines the emergence of several key media forms-social networking and crowdsourcing, video games and virtual environments, big data and data visualization-and demonstrates the formative influence of political conflict and the documentary film tradition on their evolution and cultural integration. Focusing on particular moments of political rupture, Fallon argues that the ideological rifts of the period inspired the adoption and adaptation of newly available technologies to encourage social mobilization and political action, a function performed for much of the previous century by independent documentary film. Positioning documentary film and digital media side by side in the political sphere, Fallon asserts that "truth" now lies in a new set of media forms and discursive practices that implicitly shape the documentation of everything from widespread cultural spectacles like wars and presidential elections to more invisible or isolated phenomena like the Abu Ghraib torture scandal or the "fake news" debates of 2016.
Digital media --- Documentary mass media --- Mass media --- Online social networks --- Films, cinema --- Media studies --- Politics & government --- Political aspects --- Objectivity --- Electronic social networks --- Social networking Web sites --- Virtual communities --- Social media --- Social networks --- Sociotechnical systems --- Web sites --- Mass communication --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Communication --- Electronic media --- New media (Digital media) --- Digital communications --- Online journalism --- 21st century. --- abu ghraib torture. --- big data. --- crowdsourcing. --- cultural integration. --- data visualization. --- digital platforms. --- documentary film tradition. --- documentary film. --- evolution. --- fake news. --- formative influence. --- ideological rifts. --- key media forms. --- photography. --- political action. --- political conflict. --- political rupture. --- presidential elections. --- scandal. --- social networking. --- video games. --- virtual environments. --- wars. --- Communities, Online (Online social networks) --- Communities, Virtual (Online social networks) --- Online communities (Online social networks)
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