Geo-spatial
Information Science
Special Issue
Call for Papers on
Volunteered
Geographic Information (VGI)-Analytics
Deadline: 9 June 2017
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Aims and Scope
Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)
and social media data have become part of our
everyday lives over the past few years. Individual
platforms and contribution patterns are now
beginning to be more intertwined both at the
application level and at the user side. This means
that crowd-sourcing applications nowadays begin to
offer opportunities to share data between them
during data collection and contribution processes,
for example, by tweeting an Instagram image or by
viewing a Mapillary image layer while editing
OpenStreetMap data. The advancement on the
application side can lead to novel analysis
methods of user contribution patterns.
Furthermore, the number of VGI and social media
platforms is continuously growing, providing new
data sets to be analysed.
We organize the Special Issue for the
international journal
Geo-spatial
Information Science (GSIS)
in order
to share ideas and findings on cross-platform data
contributions, innovative analysis approaches,
current data fusion methods, real-world
applications using cross-linked data, and novel
crowd-sourcing and social media platforms.
The topics will include, but not be
limited to, the following themes:
- Joint
analysis of crowd-sourced VGI/social media data
originating from different data sources
- Technical
aspects of crowd-sourced data fusion
- Spatio-temporal
analysis of activity patterns for individual
users across multiple VGI and/or social media
platforms
- Quality
assessment of VGI/social media data
- Analysis of
cross-linked data and cross-link editing methods
in VGI and social media platforms and its
applications
- New sources
of VGI and social media data
- VGI across
different regions and cultures
- Semantic
issues arising from the conflation or
cross-linkage of several different sources of
VGI
- Tailoring
VGI for different applications
Submission Guidelines
Manuscripts
should be submitted online:
here.
Submitted
articles should not have been published
previously, or be under consideration for
publication elsewhere (except conference
proceedings papers). All manuscripts are refereed
through a peer-review process. All accepted
manuscripts will be published open access in
GSIS.
All
article publishing charges (APC) will be covered
by Wuhan University,
so you
can enjoy the benefits of publishing open access
at no cost. Authors are recommended to prepare
their manuscript by following the full
instructions for authors:
here.
Important
Dates
- Deadline for
submission of full paper manuscripts: June 9,
2017
- Expected
inclusion in an issue: October, 2017
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