[Gfoss] Fwd: specialist meeting: volunteered geo information

[Piergiorgio Cipriano]

(scusate cross-posting)

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"michael gould" <gould a lsi.uji.es>
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06/09/2007 13.37
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Subject: specialist meeting: volunteered geo information



Dear EGIP:
Find below a call which represents the first Vespucci event outside Europe.
This is not an introductory summer/winter school but rather seeks senior
participants from around the world. The deadline for applications is tight.


CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:
SPECIALIST MEETING ON VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION

In the past few years a flood of new web services and other digital sources
have emerged that can potentially provide rich, abundant, and timely flows
of geographic and geo-referenced information. Collectively they might be
termed *volunteered* sources. They include geotagged entries in Wikipedia,
the more specialized place descriptions accumulating in Wikimapia, sites
such as OpenStreetMap that support volunteer efforts to create public-domain
geospatial data layers, the geotagged photographs of Flickr, and mashups
with Google Earth and Google Maps. It is now possible to find out an
enormous amount about the geographic domain from such sources, provided they
can be synthesized, verified, integrated, and distributed. Such sources have
earlier precursors in *citizen science*, as exemplified by the Christmas
Bird Count or Project GLOBE. To date there has been very little
investigation of this domain by the research community, despite its
potential. We therefore propose to hold a specialist meeting in December
2007 to examine a number of fundamental questions, including: 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, and to attach appropriate metadata to it? Can VGI be framed
within the larger domain of sensor networks, in which inert and static
sensors are replaced by, or combined with, intelligent and mobile humans?
What limitations are imposed on VGI by differential access to broadband
Internet, mobile phones, and other communication technologies, and by
concerns over privacy?
The specialist meeting will be held at the Upham Hotel in Santa Barbara,
beginning early on December 13 and ending late on December 14, 2007.
It will be organized under the auspices of NCGIA, Los Alamos National
Laboratory, and the Vespucci Initiative. Approximately 30 participants will
be drawn from the academic, industrial, and governmental sectors.
Applications are invited to participate in the meeting, and limited funding
is available to support travel and accommodation. Please send a 2-page
resume and a 2-page position paper outlining your interest in the topic to *
good a geog.ucsb.edu* <good a geog.ucsb.edu> before September 20. Decisions will
be announced before September 30.
Michael F. Goodchild, UCSB
Rajan Gupta, LANL


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Michael Gould
Centro de Visualización Interactiva  *www.cevi.uji.es*<http://www.cevi.uji.es/>
Dept. Information Systems (LSI), Universitat Jaume I, 12071 Castellón, Spain
email: gould (at) lsi.uji.es  //  email2: mgould (at) opengeospatial.org
research group  *www.geoinfo.uji.es* <http://www.geoinfo.uji.es/>  //
 personal  *www.mgould.com* <http://www.mgould.com/>
AGILE *www.agile-online.org* <http://www.agile-online.org/>
Vespucci Summer Institute *www.vespucci.org* <http://www.vespucci.org/>
Erasmus Mundus: Master in Geospatial Technologies
*www.mastergeotech.info*<http://www.mastergeotech.info/>








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Piergiorgio Cipriano
pg.cipriano a gmail.com
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