COST ACTION MAPPING AND THE CITIZEN SENSOR –

WG2: UNDERSTANDING AND INFLUENCING CONTRIBUTORS

Norman Kerle

Faculty of Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, The Netherlands

COST WG2 – AIMS AND SCOPE

Networking & limited research First product: review articles for each WG Broad set of issues to review Distinct groups of volunteers, and what characterizes them Motivation and recruitment, and instruction procedures for

those volunteers Means for screening and validating contributions Ways to foster specific behaviour to maximise accuracy/value Ways to sustain contributions (including effectiveness of

incentive and reward schemes) [Ethical and legal issues of working with volunteers.]

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TERMS FIRST Mapping and the Citizen Sensor – what is mapping here? Any VGI activity that leads to what can be described as a map Ranging from supporting mapping of NMAs, to OSM/GMM,

down to Ushahidi type report visualization maps And Citizen Sensor? Citizen scientist or plain civilian Lay or professional Active or passive Volunteer [or paid contributor]

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WP2 MEMBERS

Norman Kerle (ITC, NL) Sonja Grossberndt & Hai-Ying Liu (NILU, NO) Tapani Sarjakoski/ Mari Laakso (FGI, FI) Niels Christian Juul (Roskilde Univ, DK) Bin Jiang (Univ Gävle, SW) Milan Konecny (Univ Brno, CZ) Jeremy Morley & Mike Jackson (Univ Nottingham, UK) Peter Mooney (NUI Maynooth, IE) Jari Silander (FEI, FI) Temenoujka Bandrova (ABV, BG) Christian Schill (Univ Freiburg, DE) Silvia Tsvyatkova (Bulg. Cartogr. Assoc., BG) Marco Painho & Isabel Pina (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, PT) Martin Rutzinger (Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, A) Sónia Sousa & Mati Mõttus (Tallinn University, EE) Giovanni Rabino & Salvatore Distefano (Politecnico di Milano, I) Hans Keune (Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), B) Haosheng Huang (TU Vienna, A) Lex Comber (Uni Leicester, UK) Jasper Hogerwerf & Magdalena Grus (Dutch Kadaster, NL) [Linda See, Cidalia Fonte]

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REVIEW CONTRIBUTORS

Norman Kerle (ITC, NL) Sonja Grossberndt & Hai-Ying Liu (NILU, NO) Tapani Sarjakoski/ Mari Laakso (FGI, FI) Niels Christian Juul (Roskilde Univ, DK) Bin Jiang (Univ Gävle, SW) Milan Konecny (Univ Brno, CZ) Jeremy Morley & Mike Jackson (Univ Nottingham, UK) Peter Mooney (NUI Maynooth, IE) Jari Silander (FEI, FI) Temenoujka Bandrova (ABV, BG) Christian Schill (Univ Freiburg, DE) Silvia Tsvyatkova (Bulg. Cartogr. Assoc., BG) Marco Painho & Isabel Pina (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, PT) Martin Rutzinger (Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, A) Sónia Sousa & Mati Mõttus (Tallinn University, EE) Giovanni Rabino & Salvatore Distefano (Politecnico di Milano, I) Hans Keune (Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), B) Haosheng Huang (TU Vienna, A) Lex Comber (Uni Leicester, UK) Jasper Hogerwerf & Magdalena Grus (Dutch Kadaster, NL) [Linda See, Cidalia Fonte]

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PAPER STRUCTURE

- 2 main areas: understanding and steering/guiding volunteers (link with WG4)- What types pf volunteering, what types of volunteers- What motivates them, how to engage them- How to reward them, make them feel wanted and involved- When to use VGI, when not, what to avoid - Organizing and coordinating VGI projects- Training volunteers (link with WG4)- Validation and monitoring (steering in the right direction, gamification)- retaining interest, long-term commitment

- Remaining challenges: - boundaries of the mapping constraint- Link and overlap with WG1 and WG4

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ACTUAL RESEARCH

STSM starting next week (Post-doc Steven Verstockt, UniGhent - Citizen guidance in 3D mapping of cultural heritage)

- 3 months stay, will feed into the gamification work

- Plan to get review draft finished by end of August

- Also WG2 paper with STSM

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OTHER ISSUES

COST membership continues to grow – we have members that we know nothing about

- Will prepare a Google doc

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Thank you

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nkerle@utwente.nlwww.itc.nl/OOA-group)