[Talk-us] Fwd: Open survey on participation biases in OSM

[Charlotte Wolter]

Follks,

         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?
         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.

Charlotte



>From: Zoe Gardner <zoegardner3 at gmail.com>
>To: talk-us at openstreetmap.org ...snip... talk-au at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: [Talk-us] Open survey on participation biases in OSM
>
>
>
>Dear OSM talk subscriber
>
>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.
>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 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.
>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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Charlotte Wolter
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