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  • Reminder Deadline 30.03.2018 CFP: VGI-ALIVE Workshop at AGILE, Sweden

    VGI-ALIVE – AnaLysis, Integration, Vision, Engagement Tuesday 12th June 2018, Lund, Sweden, Workshop at AGILE 2018 Introduction to the VGI-ALIVE Workshop The steady rise of data volume shared on already established and new Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and social media platforms calls for advanced analysis methods of user contribution patterns, leads to continued challenges in data fusion, and provides…

  • Reminder Deadline 30.03.2018: 2nd CFP – VGI-ALIVE Workshop at AGILE, Lund.

    VGI-ALIVE – AnaLysis, Integration, Vision, Engagement Tuesday 12th June 2018, Lund, Sweden, Workshop at AGILE 2018 Introduction to the VGI-ALIVE Workshop The steady rise of data volume shared on already established and new Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and social media platforms calls for advanced analysis methods of user contribution patterns, leads to continued challenges in data fusion, and…

  • CFP: ISPRS IJGI Special Issue “Volunteered Geographic Information: AnaLysis, Integration, Vision, Engagement (VGI-ALIVE)”

    Call for Papers: ISPRS IJGI Special Issue “Volunteered Geographic Information: AnaLysis, Integration, Vision, Engagement (VGI-ALIVE)” A special issue of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (ISSN 2220-9964). Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2018 The steady rise of data volume shared on already-established and new Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and social media platforms calls for advanced analysis methods…

  • CFP: VGI-ALIVE Workshop at AGILE 2018, Lund, Sweden

    VGI-ALIVE – AnaLysis, Integration, Vision, Engagement Tuesday 12th June 2018, Lund, Sweden, Workshop at AGILE 2018 Introduction to the VGI-ALIVE Workshop The steady rise of data volume shared on already established and new Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and social media platforms calls for advanced analysis methods of user contribution patterns, leads to continued challenges in data fusion, and…

  • 20 Anniversary Special Issue on VGI Analytics published in GSIS

    The Special Issue: Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) – Analytics ( Vol 20, Issue 3) has been published by Taylor & Francis in the Open Access Journal Geo-Spatial Information Science (GSIS) – celebrating the journal`s 20th anniversary. Guest Editors: Peter Mooney, Alexander Zipf, Jamal Jokar Arsanjani, and Hartwig H. Hochmair http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tgsi20/20/3?nav=tocList GSIS is now indexed in…

  • Exploring the geographical context for quality assessment of VGI in flood management domain

    Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) has been used to complement or substitute authoritative data in flood management domain. The main issue regarding the use of volunteered information is to estimate its quality, mainly because it may suffer from heterogeneous quality. Therefore, several methods have been developed in the past few years in order to assess VGI…

  • DFG Summer School “VGI”

    Last week, our colleagues Franz-Benjamin Mocnik and René Westerholt participated in a summer school of the DFG priority programme on “VGI”. GIScience Heidelberg is involved in that programme by two projects, one of which is dealing with data quality issues and another one that investigates the assessment of spatial assotiations in social media data. The…

  • Last Call for Papers on VGI-ANALYTICS – Special Issue in Geo-Spatial Information Science

    Geo-spatial Information Science Special Issue Call for Papers on Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)-Analytics Deadline: 9 June 2017 Geo-spatial Information Science (GSIS) invites you to submit your paper to this forthcoming special issue on: Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)-Analytics. ​ Aims and Scope Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and social media data have become part of our everyday…

  • DeepVGI at HPI Future SOC Lab Day

    Our research member Jiaoyan Chen attended the HPI Future SOC Lab Day – Spring 2017 in Potsdam, in April 25, 2017. The HPI Future SOC (Service-Oriented Computing) Lab Day is a cooperation of the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) and the industrial partners Dell EMC, Fujitsu, SAP and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Its mission is to enable and promote exchange and…

  • DeepVGI at WWW2017 Perth

    Our group member Jiaoyan Chen attended the 26th World Wide Web Conference from 3 April to 7 April in Perth, Australia. The topic of the conference includes web-related machine learning, social network, knowledge base, crowdsourcing, urban data mining, etc. He gave a 30-minues presentation in the co-conference Big 2017 as well as a poster presentation…

  • A graph-based strategy for matching points-of-interests from different VGI sources

    Several urban studies have been increasingly relying on spatial data provided by Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) sources. The matching of features across different VGI projects may serve to assess and improve the reliability and completeness of VGI data. In a recent study, we first provide a short discussion on the similarity measures often used for…

  • VGI-Analytics Deadline Extended: CfP for short workshop papers (March 28) and full Journal Papers for GSIS Special Issue (June 9)

    VGI-Analytics offers two formats for paper submission: Workshop Short Paper (2000 to 3000-word manuscript) New Submission Deadline 28th March 2017. Authors are requested to follow the formatting guidelines for short paper submissions on the AGILE 2017 call for papers page and use the  Word .doc template or the  Word .docx template provided. Short papers should be…