Developing an Interactive Mobile Volunteered Geographic Information Platform to Integrate Environmental Big Data and Citizen Science in Urban Management

Tang, Zhenghong; Zhou, Yanfu; Yu, Hongfeng; Gu, Yue; Liu, Tiantian

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-40902-3_4

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“…For these purposes, big volumes of input data can be found in domain-specific archives but also in general web and social media sources. The contribution of CS projects and activities to generating and providing such data collections has been characterized by Poisson et al ( 2020 ) for the area of geographic information systems and by Tang et al ( 2017 ) for environmental big data. However, few efforts have been made to facilitate such approaches for analyzing the CS landscape as a whole, broadening our knowledge on the scope and state of CS to date.…”

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Developing a framework for investigating citizen science through a combination of web analytics and social science methods—The CS Track perspective

DeGroot

Golumbic

Martínez

et al. 2022

Front. Res. Metr. Anal.

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Over the past decade, Citizen Science (CS) has shown great potential to transform the power of the crowd into knowledge of societal value. Many projects and initiatives have produced high quality scientific results by mobilizing peoples' interest in science to volunteer for the public good. Few studies have attempted to map citizen science as a field, and assess its impact on science, society and ways to sustain its future practice. To better understand CS activities and characteristics, CS Track employs an analytics and analysis framework for monitoring the citizen science landscape. Within this framework, CS Track collates and processes information from project websites, platforms and social media and generates insights on key issues of concern to the CS community, such as participation patterns or impact on science learning. In this paper, we present the operationalization of the CS Track framework and its three-level analysis approach (micro-meso-macro) for applying analytics techniques to external data sources. We present three case studies investigating the CS landscape using these analytical levels and discuss the strengths and limitations of combining web-analytics with quantitative and qualitative research methods. This framework aims to complement existing methods for evaluating CS, address gaps in current observations of the citizen science landscape and integrate findings from multiple studies and methodologies. Through this work, CS Track intends to contribute to the creation of a measurement and evaluation scheme for CS and improve our understanding about the potential of analytics for the evaluation of CS.

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confidence: 99%

Developing a framework for investigating citizen science through a combination of web analytics and social science methods—The CS Track perspective

DeGroot

Golumbic

Martínez

et al. 2022

Front. Res. Metr. Anal.

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“…The highest proportion of projects employing a hybrid method work at the partnership level, with low-cost facilitating tools complementing offline methods, such as GIS, online collaborative mapping and websites with tools particularly tailored to specific projects (e.g. Tang et al, 2017). The earliest manuscript illustrating hybrid participation is at 'placation' rung (Balram, 2005) where networked computers were used within a workshop where participants were physically present in the same space but worked digitally.…”

Section: Level Of Participation With An Analogue/offline Modementioning

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Assessing deeper levels of participation in nature-based solutions in urban landscapes – A literature review of real-world cases

Puskás

Abunnasr

Naalbandian

2021

Landscape and Urban Planning

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“…Bringing VGI into a mobile application context means that the service will only work with help of volunteers who make denunciations and spread information, showing where the problems in their community are and how the solution process works. It is an urgent need to transfer complex environmental data to citizens' daily mobile devices, which will then allow them to participate in urban environmental management [3].…”

Section: Damages In Urban Public Patrimony Of Brazilian Federal Dmentioning

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“…Reference [3] presents a research that evaluates the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats for the American selected real cases: "Field Photo," "CoCoRaHS," "OakMapper," "What's Invasive! ", "Leafsnap," "U.S. Green Infrastructure Reporter", and "Nebraska Wetlands".…”

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Application with Geoinformation for Control of Damage in Public Property

Carvalho¹,

Governo²,

Bernardo³

et al. 2018

IJCTE

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Aiming to improve population life quality of the Brazilian Federal District, and using concepts of Information Architecture and Geoinformation, this research presents a mobile application with objective of facilitating practice of denouncing damages to the public patrimony, locating geographically and cataloging this damage so that public sector is notified and population perceives changes and actions taken by the government. Mobile platforms are becoming other channels through which citizens can report information in real time. Federal District currently has 3 million inhabitants and 5.8 thousand km² , and it is common to see areas without sanitation, without asphalts and with damages to public patrimony such as fallen poles, squares vandalized, abandoned buildings, among others. By means of geolocation and damage mapping, Volunteered Geographic Information and this mobile application allows citizen to make complaints and ask government to do maintenance, being a new tool to help environment and human being life. IndexTerms-Volunteered geographic information, geoinformation, mobile application, public patrimony.

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Developing an Interactive Mobile Volunteered Geographic Information Platform to Integrate Environmental Big Data and Citizen Science in Urban Management

Cited by 6 publications

References 22 publications

Developing a framework for investigating citizen science through a combination of web analytics and social science methods—The CS Track perspective

Developing a framework for investigating citizen science through a combination of web analytics and social science methods—The CS Track perspective

Assessing deeper levels of participation in nature-based solutions in urban landscapes – A literature review of real-world cases

Application with Geoinformation for Control of Damage in Public Property

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