8. Cybermappr: a research project
Components to improve data quality:
Volunteer organization: task driven vs. spontaneous
Training people
Rewarding good contributions
Data acquisition on the field with mobile platforms
13. Research: Rewarding contributions
HP Gloe is a geo-located web content discovery tool
and contribution system for smart phones
by Mikael Ganehag Brorsson, Public Domain.
14. Gloe: Rewarding good contributions
Virtual budget to invest.
Good recommendations:
Budget increases.
My reputation improves.
Applied to map contributions,
discoveries, tasks, etc.
Meritocracy.
by Darren Hester CC BY-NC 2.0.
15. Conclusions
The Citizen Cyberscience Centre is trying to:
Build a new volunteer mapping framework,
Research on:
Data quality
Volunteer organization
Training people
Rewarding good contributions
Data acquisition on the field with mobile platforms
17. Questions?
teleyinex@gmail.com
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