Hi
My Youtube history got cleared. Does anyone have a link the video of a
woman giving a lecture about contribution discrepancies in open data
projects. She used OSM brothels & childcare as examples.
Ta
DaveF
On 04/09/2017 11:38, Zoe Gardner wrote:
Dear OSM talk-gb subscriber
I am a Research Fellow in the Nottingham Geospatial Institute at the
University of Nottingham, interested in participation biases in
geospatial crowdsourced projects such as OSM and other Volunteered
Geographical Information (VGI) projects. My current research project
is concerned with the way in which participation biases in OSM may
potentially affect the usability of the data that is collected and
subsequently what is available to location based service providers
which use OSM as their primary geospatial database.
The project is motivated by recent research that has found a strong
male bias in OSM participation. This has led to assertions that
various geospatial knowledge could be under represented or poorly
recorded on the map. However, the actual consequences of this bias
remain little explored or reported. By collecting information about
contributors to OSM, which can then be analyzed along with their
editing patterns, the impacts of this bias might begin to be measured
and therefore better understood. I have therefore published an online
survey designed to collect information directly from OSM editors and
I would like to invite as many of you as possible to participate. The
survey is anonymous and takes a couple of minutes to complete.
If you are an OSM contributor and are interested in or would like to
participate in the study, please click on the link below, which will
take you to the Bristol Online Survey website where you will find
more information and an opportunity to participate in the survey. As
a small incentive, at the close of the survey in a few weeks’ time,
60 respondents will be drawn at random to receive a £15 Amazon voucher.
To participate in the survey, click on the link below:
https://nottingham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/osm-user-profiles
<https://nottingham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/osm-user-profiles>
Please do think about participating. It is hoped that knowledge about
the way participation biases impact on crowdsourced maps will enable
new strategies to be developed to address any resulting voids in the
geospatial information provided by amateur mappers. In turn this
could strengthen the role played by platforms such as OSM in urban
planning and sustainability and raise the profile of the important
mapping work that you all do.
In the meantime, if you would like to know more about me, my research
activities or the project, please visit my University webpage (link
below) and do not hesitate to get in touch directly or via the OSM
messaging service.
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/engineering/people/zoe.gardner
<https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/engineering/people/zoe.gardner>
Thank you
Zoe
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