On 10-Oct-17 09:07 AM, Christoph Hormann wrote:
On Monday 09 October 2017, Frederik Ramm wrote:
today I was pointed to a recent, open-access scientific paper called
"Information Seeding and Knowledge Production in Online Communities:
Evidence from OpenStreetMap". This open-access paper is available
here
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3044581
Very interesting.
As additional summary: The analysis made is based on the original Tiger
import which produced a different level of completeness in different
areas due to differences in the source data and thereby offers fairly
well defined starting conditions for a comparative analysis.
The analysis and the observations coming from it look pretty solid. I
am not fully convinced by the interpretation of the reasons lying
largely in contributors taking 'ownership' of the data they contribute.
This would in my eyes - at least if meant in terms of individual
ownership - require the original contributors at the beginning to
continue to be significant in terms of overall contribution volume over
the whole time span analyzed. This seems rather unlikely considering
the active contributor turnover we have in general
(https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Active_contributors_year.png).
So, survey performed on a society where internet access is common.
If the survey were performed where internet access is very rare (satellite
only) the the conclusion may be different.
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