<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"><head><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml><o:OfficeDocumentSettings><o:AllowPNG/><o:PixelsPerInch>96</o:PixelsPerInch></o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3285">Sorry, this was drawn to my attention.</div><div><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3200" dir="ltr">I can vouch that Zoe Gardner is a researcher at Nottingham University Geospatial Institute. Her institutional webpage is here: <a class="enhancr2_30a98cad-8039-0ad7-8ed7-b24ead08ba44" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3290" href="https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/Engineering/People/zoe.gardner">Zoe Gardner - The University of Nottingham</a></div><div><br></div><div class="yahoo-link-enhancr-card ymail-preserve-class ymail-preserve-style" id="enhancr2_30a98cad-8039-0ad7-8ed7-b24ead08ba44" style="max-width:400px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" dir="ltr" contenteditable="false" data-type="yenhancr" data-category="article" data-size="medium" data-embed-url="" data-url="https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/Engineering/People/zoe.gardner"> <a class="yahoo-enhancr-cardlink" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3313" style="text-decoration:none !important; color: #000 !important;" href="https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/Engineering/People/zoe.gardner" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"> <table class="card-wrapper yahoo-ignore-table" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3312" style="max-width:400px;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3311"><tr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3310"> <td width="400" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3309"> <table width="100%" class="card yahoo-ignore-table" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3308" style="max-width:400px;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3307"><tr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3306"> <td class="card-primary-image-cell" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3305" background="https://s.yimg.com/vv//api/res/1.2/eHKKyyJmi1x5KRbUjUB8Jw--/YXBwaWQ9bWFpbDtmaT1maWxsO2g9MjAwO3c9NDAw/https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/SiteElements/Images/Base/logo.png.cf.jpg" valign="top" style="background:#000 url('https://s.yimg.com/vv//api/res/1.2/eHKKyyJmi1x5KRbUjUB8Jw--/YXBwaWQ9bWFpbDtmaT1maWxsO2g9MjAwO3c9NDAw/https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/SiteElements/Images/Base/logo.png.cf.jpg') no-repeat center center;background-size:cover;height:200px;position:relative;" bgcolor="#000000"> <!--[if gte mso 9]><v:rect fill="true" stroke="false" style="width:400px;height:218px;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;"><v:fill type="frame" color="#000000" src="https://s.yimg.com/vv//api/res/1.2/eHKKyyJmi1x5KRbUjUB8Jw--/YXBwaWQ9bWFpbDtmaT1maWxsO2g9MjAwO3c9NDAw/https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/SiteElements/Images/Base/logo.png.cf.jpg"/></v:rect><![endif]--> <table class="yahoo-ignore-table" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3304" style="width:100%;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" valign="top"> <tbody id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3303"><tr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3302"> <td id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3301" background="https://s.yimg.com/nq/storm/assets/enhancrV2/12/overlay-tile.png" valign="top" style="background:transparent url('https://s.yimg.com/nq/storm/assets/enhancrV2/12/overlay-tile.png') repeat left top;height:200px;" bgcolor="transparent"> <!--[if gte mso 9]><v:rect fill="true" stroke="false" style="width:400px;height:218px;position:absolute;top:-18px;left:0;"><v:fill type="pattern" color="#000000" src="https://s.yimg.com/nq/storm/assets/enhancrV2/12/overlay-tile.png"/><v:textbox inset="0,0,20px,0"><![endif]--> <table height="185" class="yahoo-ignore-table" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3300" style="width:100%;height:185px;min-height:185px;"> <tbody id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3299"><tr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3298"> <td class="card-richInfo2" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3297" style="text-align:left;text-align:left;padding:15px 0 0 15px;vertical-align:top;"> </td> <td class="card-actions" style="text-align:right;padding:15px 15px 0 0;vertical-align:top;"> <div class="card-share-container"></div> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!--[if gte mso 9]></v:textbox></v:rect><![endif]--> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> <tr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3395"> <td id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3394"> <table align="center" class="card-info yahoo-ignore-table" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3393" style="background:#fff;position:relative;z-index:2;width:95%;max-width:380px;border:1px solid #e0e4e9;border-bottom:3px solid #000000;margin-top:-40px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3392"><tr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3391"> <td style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:16px 0 16px 12px;vertical-align:top;"> </td> <td id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3797" style="vertical-align:middle;padding:16px 12px;width:99%;"> <h2 class="card-title" style="font-size: 16px; line-height:19px; margin:0 0 4px 0;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;word-break:break-word;">Zoe Gardner - The University of Nottingham</h2> <div class="card-description" style="font-size:11px;line-height:15px;color:#999;word-break:break-word;"></div> </td> <td id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3390" style="text-align:right;padding:16px 12px 16px 0;"> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3356"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3198" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3196" dir="ltr">Zoe took the time to come along to the Nottingham OSM July meeting, and I've bumped into her at a University facility on the Jubilee Campus site when I had a further discussion of her research (and probably caused her coffee to get a bit cool, in which case my apologies). I also believe, and I think it is stated in some of her emails, that she is collaborating with Dr Peter Mooney of Maynooth University in Ireland. He was a co-editor on a recent scholarly multi-author book on OSM, and has presented work at various SotM conferences.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3410" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3470" dir="ltr">I have no affiliation with Nottingham University nor with her research. I therefore cannot say why her institutional email address has not been used, although I would expect that for this type of activity a distinct email address is probably useful to avoid confusion with regular day-job communications.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_4432" dir="ltr">I have not checked, but normally research of this kind, storing personal data, will need some approval via an ethics committee. Furthermore institutions in Britain and Europe need to adhere to current (and future) European data protection legislation.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_4054" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_4056" dir="ltr">Requiring researchers to seek approval for their research via OSMF, or local chapters (affiliated or otherwise), would, in my view, raise a rather high bar for academics, and one which may be perceived to be contra OSM's openness. On the other hand the it may be appropriate for OSMF to consider guidelines w.r.t. collection of personal data of mappers for academic research, particularly as the new European directive comes into force next year.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3993" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3999" dir="ltr">HTH,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3997" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_4076" dir="ltr">Jerry Clough</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3995" dir="ltr">SK53</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3366" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3358" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3194"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3064" style="display: block;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3063" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3062" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3067" dir="ltr"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3066" face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3588"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Charlotte Wolter <techlady@techlady.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Talk-US@openstreetmap.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, 4 September 2017, 19:25<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Talk-us] Fwd: Open survey on participation biases in OSM<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_3061"><br><div id="yiv7523367062">
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<font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504613432389_4005" size="3">Follks,<br><br>
It would
be nice if we could get some confirmation that this is a real research
projects being done by an actual researcher at Nottingham. If it is
legit, why is the return email address from Gmail rather than the
university?<br>
Is there
some mechanism that we can set up to confirm that the research is for
real, such as running it through the US board first? I don't mind
contributing to a survey. I just want to be sure it is for real.<br><br>
Charlotte<br><br>
<br><br>
<blockquote class="yiv7523367062cite" cite="" type="cite">From: Zoe Gardner
<zoegardner3@gmail.com><br>
To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org ...snip... talk-au@openstreetmap.org<br>
Subject: [Talk-us] Open survey on participation biases in OSM<br><br>
<br>
<br>
Dear OSM talk subscriber<br>
<br>
I am a Research Fellow in the Nottingham Geospatial Institute at the
University of Nottingham in the UK, interested in participation biases in
geospatial crowd-sourced projects such as OSM and other Volunteered
Geographical Information (VGI) projects. My current research project is
concerned with the way in which participation biases in OSM may
potentially affect the usability of the data that is collected and
subsequently what is available to location-based service providers that
use OSM as their primary geospatial database.<br>
The project is motivated by recent research that has found a strong male
bias in OSM participation. This has led to assertions that various
geospatial knowledge could be under represented or poorly recorded on the
map. However, the actual consequences of this bias remain little explored
or reported. By collecting information about contributors to OSM, which
can then be analyzed along with their editing patterns, the impacts of
this bias might begin to be measured and therefore better understood. I
have therefore published an online survey designed to collect information
directly from OSM editors and I would like to invite as many of you as
possible to participate. The survey is anonymous and takes a couple of
minutes to complete.<br>
If you are an OSM contributor and are interested in or would like to
participate in the study, please click on the link below, which will take
you to the Bristol Online Survey website where you will find more
information and an opportunity to participate in the survey. As a small
incentive, at the close of the survey in a few weeks' time, 60
respondents will be drawn at random to receive a £15 Amazon voucher.<br>
To participate in the survey, click on the link below:<br>
<a href="https://nottingham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/osm-user-profiles" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">
https://nottingham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/osm-user-profiles</a><br>
Please do think about participating. It is hoped that knowledge about the
way participation biases impact on crowd-sourced maps will enable new
strategies to be developed to address any resulting voids in the
geospatial information provided by amateur mappers. In turn this could
strengthen the role played by platforms such as OSM in urban planning and
sustainability, and could raise the profile of the important mapping work
that you all do.<br>
In the meantime, if you would like to know more about me, my research
activities or the project, please visit my University webpage (link
below) and do not hesitate to get in touch directly or via the OSM
messaging service.<br>
<a href="https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/engineering/people/zoe.gardner" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/engineering/people/zoe.gardner</a><br>
Thank you<br>
<br>
Zoe<br>
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Charlotte Wolter<br>
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+1-310-597-4040<br>
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