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<h2><strong>1st Call for Paper: VGI-Analytics 2017</strong></h2>
<h3><strong>Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI):
Integration, ANALYsis, applICationS</strong></h3>
<h3><strong>Tuesday, 9th May 2017, <a title="See the location
of AGILE 2017 in Wageningen University, The Netherlands on
OpenStreetMap"
href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.98528&mlon=5.66394#map=18/51.98528/5.66394"
target="_blank">Wageningen University</a>, The Netherlands
at <a title="See the Homepage of the AGILE 2017 Conference"
href="https://agile-online.org/index.php/conference/conference-2017"
target="_blank">AGILE 2017</a></strong></h3>
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<h2 class="featurette-heading">VGI-Analytics 2017 is <span
class="text-muted">the 4th workshop in a series of AGILE
pre-conference workshops</span></h2>
<p class="lead text-justify">Volunteered Geographic Information
(VGI) and social media data have become part of our everyday
lives over the past few years. Whereas in the early beginnings
of crowd-sourced data the collection occurred primarily to
isolated, individual platforms, contribution patterns are now
beginning to be more intertwined between different platforms,
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.</p>
<p class="lead text-justify">This advancement on the application
side can lead to novel analysis methods of user contribution
patterns. Recent data contribution trends show also that
geographic data are beginning to be linked across different
VGI and social media platforms. As an example, users started
to cross-link OSM point of interests (POIs) and street
features (e.g. street lamps, sidewalk information) based on
Mapillary photographs, or by tagging Flickr pictures with OSM
tags to facilitate automatic extraction of descriptive
information for Flickr images. This cross-linkage of data
between different platforms brings new opportunities and
challenges, including questions of data quality and the
formation of user communities across platforms. This change in
contribution patterns may require different analysis
techniques than for data contributed to individual data
platforms. The number of VGI and social media platforms is
continuously growing, providing new data sets to be analysed.
A recent example is the Pokémon Go application which triggered
the crowd-sourced local business review Website “Yelp” to add
a Pokémon stop attribute. This attribute can reveal in which
parts of a city Pokémon stops are placed and thus where
Pokémon Go players explore Pokémon stops.</p>
<p class="lead text-justify">This workshop provides an
opportunity for interested researchers 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. It allows participants also to
discuss technical questions and innovations on data access.
One portion in the workshop is dedicated to a collaborative
session, where break-out groups will discuss some specific
aspects of cross-linked VGI data. Concurrently we plan to
offer a technical hands-on session on VGI related APIs and
software as well.</p>
<p class="lead text-justify"><strong>The Call for Papers will
include a call for <strong>free open access</strong> <strong>journal</strong>
paper submissions which will reviewed and considered for
inclusion in a <strong>special issue </strong>of the
journal Geo-spatial Information Science <a
href="http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/est/gsis"
target="_blank">http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/est/gsis</a>
in late 2017.</strong></p>
<p class="lead text-justify"><strong></strong></p>
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<p class="lead text-justify"><strong>GSIS is now an Open
Access journal!</strong> All article publishing charges
(APC) will be covered by Wuhan University (unless otherwise
stated), so authors will have the benefits of open access at
no cost.</p>
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<h2 class="featurette-heading">VGI-Analytics 2017: <span
class="text-muted">The Organisers</span></h2>
<p class="lead text-justify">The VGI-Analytics 2017 workshop
will be organised and co-chaired by:</p>
<ul class="lead text-justify">
<li><strong><a href="http://www.cs.nuim.ie/%7Epmooney/"
target="_blank">Peter Mooney</a></strong>: Maynooth
University, Ireland; Email: <kbd><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Peter.Mooney@nuim.ie">Peter.Mooney@nuim.ie</a></kbd></li>
<li><strong><a
href="http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/personen/gis_zipf.html"
target="_blank">Alexander Zipf</a></strong>: University
of Heidelberg, Germany; Email: <kbd><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:zipf@uni-heidelberg.de">zipf@uni-heidelberg.de</a></kbd></li>
<li><strong><a href="https://jamaljokar.wordpress.com/"
target="_blank">Jamal Jokar</a></strong>: Aalborg
University Copenhagen, Denmark; Email: <kbd><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jja@plan.aau.dk">jja@plan.aau.dk</a></kbd></li>
<li><strong><a
href="http://flrec.ifas.ufl.edu/geomatics/hochmair/"
target="_blank">Hartwig H. Hochmair</a></strong>:
University of Florida, United States; Email: <kbd><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:hhhochmair@ufl.edu">hhhochmair@ufl.edu</a></kbd></li>
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<h2 class="featurette-heading">VGI-Analytics 2017 <span
class="text-muted">Workshop Topics and Themes</span></h2>
<p class="lead text-justify">The VGI-Analytics 2017 workshop
will discuss, but not be limited to, the following workshop
topics and themes:</p>
<ul class="lead">
<li>Joint analysis of crowd-sourced VGI/social media data
originating from different data sources</li>
<li>Technical aspects of crowd-sourced data fusion</li>
<li>Spatio-temporal analysis of activity patterns for
individual users across multiple VGI and/or social media
platforms</li>
<li>Quality assessment of VGI/social media data through
analysis of data from different platforms</li>
<li>Analysis of cross-linked data and cross-link editing
methods in VGI and social media platforms and its
applications</li>
<li>New sources of VGI and social media data</li>
<li>VGI across different regions and cultures</li>
<li>Semantic issues arising from the conflation or
cross-linkage of several different sources of VGI</li>
<li>Tailoring VGI for different applications</li>
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<h2 class="featurette-heading">VGI-Analytics 2017: <span
class="text-muted">Important Dates</span></h2>
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<ul class="list-unstyled lead text-justify">
<li><em></em> <strong>Dec 21st 2016</strong>: Call for short
workshop papers and <span style="text-decoration:
underline">full journal papers</span> opens. This call is
different to the AGILE 2017 call for short papers.</li>
<li><em></em> <strong>Mar 15 2017</strong>: Call for short
workshop papers and full journal papers ends. In the coming
weeks we will update this website with information on how
both the short workshop papers and full journal papers will
be submitted.</li>
<li><em></em> <strong>Apr 4 2017</strong>: Review process
ends. Program committee decides on which workshop papers are
accepted. The authors of these papers are notified and
invited to present their work at VGI-Analytics 2017
workshop.<br>
The status of the submitted journal papers will also be
communicated to authors (accepted/revisions
required/rejected). There will be an invitation of authors
of journal papers of sufficient quality to present and take
part in the workshop;</li>
<li><em></em> <strong>Apr 21 2017</strong>: Camera ready
copies of workshop papers due; journal paper authors can
prepare an abstract of their journal paper for the workshop
Website (but don’t need to have their journal paper ready at
that time). It should be noted that all outputs from the
workshop will be openly available on the VGI-Analytics 2017
workshop website.</li>
<li><em></em> <strong>May 9 2017: <em></em> VGI-Analytics
Workshop <em></em></strong> at <a
href="https://agile-online.org/index.php/conference/conference-2017"
target="_blank">AGILE 2017</a>.</li>
<li><em></em> <strong>May 26 2017</strong>: Revisions of
journal paper submission due (this gives authors enough time
to integrate feedback from the workshop); re-review process
begins (may not be necessary for all papers)</li>
<li><em></em> <strong>June 9 2017</strong>: Re-review process
of journal papers ends; notification of authors</li>
<li><em></em> <strong>June 30 2017</strong>: Finalized
journal papers due</li>
<li><em></em> <strong>September/October 2017</strong>:
Special Issue Published.</li>
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<h2 class="featurette-heading">VGI-Analytics 2017: <span
class="text-muted">A pre-conference workshop series</span></h2>
<p class="lead text-justify">VGI-Analytics follows on from a
very successful pre-AGILE conference workshop in Helsinki in
June 2016 called Link-VGI: LINKing and analyzing Volunteered
Geographic Information (VGI) across different platforms.
Please see the workshop web-page for <a
href="http://www.cs.nuim.ie/%7Epmooney/LinkVGI2016/"
target="_blank">LinkVGI 2016</a>. Indeed the workshop
organisers have been working together in this general research
areas for several years now. In 2015 the <a
href="http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/gis/rich-vgi.html">RICH-VGI
workshop</a> (enRICHment of volunteered geographic
information (VGI): Techniques, practices and current state of
knowledge) was organised before AGILE 2015 in Lisbon,
Portugal. An earlier pre-AGILE conference workshop <a
href="http://flrec.ifas.ufl.edu/geomatics/agile2013/index.html">ACTIVITY</a>
(Action and Interaction in Volunteered Geographic Information)
was held in Leuven in May 2013 before AGILE 2013.</p>
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<h2 class="featurette-heading">VGI-Analytics 2017: <span
class="text-muted">Workshop Timetable</span></h2>
<p class="text-justify lead">The workshop will be a full day
workshop. We intend to begin at 09:00 and finish at around
17:00. This will allow workshop delegates to either return
back to their accommodation before the evening reception or to
explore the university grounds or city of Wageningen. In the
tentative outline below we have provided two options for
parallel sessions in the afternoon. We aim to attract a high
number of attendees and consequently we believe that we can
provide the option of both sessions.</p>
<p class="text-justify lead">The tentative outline of the
workshop is as follows below. The timings have been designed
so that they work with the timetables of the other pre AGILE
workshops for the purposes of coffee breaks and lunches.</p>
<table class="table table-bordered lead" border="0">
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<tr>
<td><strong><em></em> 09:00 - 09:30</strong></td>
<td>Welcome and some introductions from the organisers</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong><em></em> 09:30 - 12:30</strong></td>
<td>Presentations and lectures from delegates - these will
be drawn from submissions to the workshop after a Call
For Papers process</td>
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<td><strong><em></em> 12:30 - 13:30</strong></td>
<td>LUNCH</td>
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<td><strong><em></em> 13:30 - 15:30</strong></td>
<td><strong>Session Option 1 Collaborative Session</strong>
the idea here would be to break the workshop up into 4 -
5 small groups. Each group would be led by one of the
organisers or an experienced academic/researcher. Then
each group would try to tackle some of the current
challenges in VGI-Analytics with the view of working
towards the draft for a multi-author journal paper. At
the end of the session each group will have gathered
together a roughwork document of ideas, formulations,
plans, etc to bring their paper forward after the
workshop. Very often one of the negative aspects of
workshops is that the potential energy for collaboration
and future networking diminishes after the workshop is
finished. A tangible and shared collaborative output
like this could help build capacity for sustaining this
collaboration. This is also an excellent opportunity for
PhD students and other young researchers to work and
collaborate with more experienced academics/researchers.</td>
</tr>
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<td><strong><em></em> 15:30 - 16:00</strong></td>
<td>Coffee</td>
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<tr>
<td><strong><em></em> 16:00 - 16:30</strong></td>
<td>Short feedback and summary from each group leader</td>
</tr>
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<td><strong><em></em> 16:30 - 17:00</strong></td>
<td>Closing - summary and overview of the day from the
Workshop Chair. Plans for the future.</td>
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<h2 class="featurette-heading">VGI-Analytics 2017: <span
class="text-muted">Directions and Logistics</span></h2>
<p class="text-justify lead">The workshop will take place on
Tuesday 9th May 2017 as a pre-conference workshop at <a
title="See the Homepage of the AGILE 2017 Conference"
href="https://agile-online.org/index.php/conference/conference-2017"
target="_blank">AGILE 2017</a> in <a title="See the
location of AGILE 2017 in Wageningen University, The
Netherlands on OpenStreetMap"
href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.98528&mlon=5.66394#map=18/51.98528/5.66394"
target="_blank">Wageningen University</a>, The Netherlands.</p>
<p class="text-justify lead">The <a title="See the Homepage of
the AGILE 2017 Conference for information on how to travel
to the conference and workshop"
href="https://agile-online.org/index.php/practical-and-local-information-2017/travel-information-2017"
target="_blank">AGILE 2017</a> website will contain
information and directions of how to travel to Wageningen
University.</p>
<p class="text-justify lead"><strong><em></em> REGISTRATION</strong>
for the VGI-Analytics 2017 will be handled directly with your
registration for the AGILE 2017 conference. <span
style="text-decoration: underline">This webpage will not
provide a facility to register for the workshop</span>.
There will be a small registration fee for this workshop which
is collected by AGILE.</p>
<p class="text-justify lead"><a
href="http://www.cs.nuim.ie/%7Epmooney/VGI-Analytics2017/"
target="_blank">Workshop WebSite:
http://www.cs.nuim.ie/~pmooney/VGI-Analytics2017/</a></p>
<p class="text-justify lead"><a
href="http://www.cs.nuim.ie/%7Epmooney/VGI-Analytics2017/"
target="_blank"><br>
</a></p>
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