[Talk-GB] Open survey on participation biases in OSM

[Dave F]

Hi
My Youtube history got cleared. Does anyone have a link the video of a 
woman giving a lecture about contribution discrepancies in open data 
projects. She used OSM brothels & childcare as examples.

Ta
DaveF


On 04/09/2017 11:38, Zoe Gardner wrote:
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>> Dear OSM talk-gb subscriber
>>
>> I am a Research Fellow in the Nottingham Geospatial Institute at the 
>> University of Nottingham, interested in participation biases in 
>> geospatial crowdsourced 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 
>> which use OSM as their primary geospatial database.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> To participate in the survey, click on the link below:
>>
>> https://nottingham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/osm-user-profiles 
>> <https://nottingham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/osm-user-profiles>
>>
>> Please do think about participating. It is hoped that knowledge about 
>> the way participation biases impact on crowdsourced 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 raise the profile of the important 
>> mapping work that you all do.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/engineering/people/zoe.gardner 
>> <https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/engineering/people/zoe.gardner>
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> Zoe
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