VGI and UGC: Uses, barriers and topics

VGI/UGC: Uses, barriers and topics

Ralph Straumann, Ernst Basler + Partnerralph.straumann@ebp.ch, http://www.ebp.ch/enCOST ENERGIC WG3 Workshop, 26.05.2014

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Example uses of VGI/UGC @ EBP

Walktimes using OSM data

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Example uses of VGI/UGC @ EBP

Viewpoints from SwissPeaks logging data

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Example uses of VGI/UGC @ EBP

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Example uses of VGI/UGC @ EBP

Cellphone data for traffic jam statistics

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Barriers to adoption

Unfamiliarity

(Unclear) licensing

- What happens to derived products?

Informal nature of content:

- Spam, offensive content – in some settings

Spatial heterogeneity Use by officials

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Barriers to adoption

Built-in biases, (perceived) qualityissues

SLAs vs. undocumented, inofficial, deprecated APIs

Comparison with / availability of official data

Complexity

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Barriers to adoption

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What would be of interest?

In general, topics where:

no (or bad) official data exists

said data is prohibitively expensive

data has to be comparable across borders

we are interested in informality

(…)

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What would be of interest?

Examples:

Movement data- Mode of transport

- Metrics

- Socio-demography

- Purpose, goal

Pooled near-realtime data- Event detection, e.g. damage assessment wrt insurance

claims

- Emergency operations

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Maybe a «Trojan horse» for VGI/UGC?

Administrations familiarise themselveswith the «open» movement

OGD is not perfect triggers feedbackand interaction between stakeholders

… and OGD?

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