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Keys to successful scientific VGI projects

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1 Institute G2C, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
2 Institute MEI, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
3 Geographic Information Systems Lab (LASIG), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
4 Laboratory of Geographic Information Systems (LASIG) / School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.2230v2
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Subject Areas
Data Science, Spatial and Geographic Information Systems
Keywords
citizen science, Volunteered geographic information (VGI), PPGIS, crowdcrafting, crowdsourcing, data quality
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© 2016 Ingensand et al.
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Ingensand J, Composto S, Ertz O, Rappo D, Nappez M, Produit T, Oberson M, Widmer I, Joost S. 2016. Keys to successful scientific VGI projects. PeerJ Preprints 4:e2230v2

Abstract

Scientific projects are increasingly using volunteered geographic information (VGI) in order to collect and validate geographic data. This concept relies on the three challenges that first of all users can be found and second be convinced to collaborate and contribute and that scientists finally are able to gather high quality data for their projects. In this paper these three challenges are discussed using the experience with three different research projects: Urbangene, Signalez-nous and BioSentiers.

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Keys to successful scientific VGI projects

DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.2230v2/supp-1

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The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Jens Ingensand conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, performed the computation work, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Sarah Composto conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, performed the computation work, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Olivier Ertz conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, performed the computation work, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Daniel Rappo conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, performed the computation work, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Marion Nappez conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, performed the computation work, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Timothée Produit conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, performed the computation work, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Mathias Oberson conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, performed the computation work, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Ivo Widmer conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, performed the computation work, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Stéphane Joost conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, performed the computation work, reviewed drafts of the paper.

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