[OSM-newbies] [research survey] Your perspective in editing OpenStreetMap

[Charlotte Wolter]

Giovanni,

         I echo some of the other questions about your research.
         My concerns are:
         --You did not provide any advance notice
         --You did not name the professor(s) who are principal investigators
         --the link to the study is not a link to your university
         --we are all slammed with the Nepal response, so many of us 
don't have five minutes
         I'm not worried about your questionnaire. Whether or not it 
is effective is your problem. I hope you worked with your professors 
to develop it.
         I can only hope that your research also recognizes that, 
while all volunteer organizations have limitations and are not 
perfect, the work that they do is important and valuable. And, I hope 
the research--while reaching for the unvarnished truth--is also done 
in the spirit of helping those organizations be even more successful.

Charlotte Wolter


At 03:19 AM 4/29/2015, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Sorry for crossposting.
>My name is Giovanni and I'm a researcher at University College
>London, UK. I'm specialised in crowdsourcing research and in
>the past have done many studies of OpenStreetMap.
>I'm currently conducting a new OpenStreetMap study, and I'm
>asking for your help. I'm trying to assess the extent to which
>information on OSM is ever maintained or updated. Such knowledge
>helps understand how to best support the OSM community with
>appropriate tools.
>I would be very grateful if you could give only 5 minutes of your
>time to fill in a short anonymous survey. Your answers will help me
>better understand your perspective in editing OpenStreetMap.
>The survey can be accessed by clicking on the following link:
>http://goo.gl/forms/6xtj14pwej
>Your answers to the questionnaire will be stored securely and they
>will be used only for research purposes. Confidentiality and anonymity
>will be maintained and it will not be possible to identify you in any
>way.
>Let me know if, after having completed the survey, you would like to
>receive the outcomes of my research, I will be more than happy to
>share them with you once ready.
>Thank you for your time,
>
>Giovanni
>
>PS. In case you're curious, you can find some of my past OpenStreetMap
>studies here:
>http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/G.Quattrone/pubblications/cscw2015.pdf 
>http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/G.Quattrone/pubblications/wsdm2014.pdf 
>  http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/G.Quattrone/pubblications/icwsm2013.pdf 
>http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/G.Quattrone/pubblications/cscw2013.pdf --
>
>Giovanni Quattrone
>Research Associate
>University College London,
>UK Department of Computer Science
>http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/G.Quattrone/
>
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