• openAccess   A comparative study on VGI and professional noise data 

      García-Martí, Irene; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Rodríguez-Pupo, Luis E. AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      The ubiquitous nature of mobile devices and its growing presence in urban areas, turn them up into low cost environmental monitoring platforms. In this field, several authors made different efforts to provide alternatives ...
    • openAccess   A flexible framework for assessing the quality of crowdsourced data 

      Meek, Sam; Jackson, Mike J.; Leibovici, Didier G. AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      Crowdsourcing as a means of data collection has produced previously unavailable data assets and enriched existing ones, but its quality can be highly variable. This presents several challenges to potential end users that ...
    • openAccess   Cropland capture: A gaming approach to improve global land cover 

      See, Linda; Sturn, Tobias; Fritz, Steffen; McCallum, Ian; Salk, Carl AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      Accurate and reliable information on global cropland extent is needed for a number of applications, e g. to estimate potential yield losses in the wake of a drought or for assessing future scenarios of climate change on ...
    • openAccess   Linking crowdsourced observations with INSPIRE 

      Wiemann, Stefan; Bernard, Lars AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      The combination of spatial data from the variety of sources on the web, being either legislative, commercially or voluntarily driven, is a major requirement for the establishment of a fully integrated geospatial web. ...
    • openAccess   Noise map: professional versus crowdsourced data 

      Pődör, Andrea; Révész, András AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      The goal of the recent study is to evaluate the usability of the data measurement capability of an average smartphone and make a comparative study on available open source mobile applications potentially suitable to noise ...
    • openAccess   Semantic analysis of Citizen Sensing, Crowdsourcing and VGI 

      Comber, Alexis; Schade, Sven; See, Linda; Mooney, Peter; Foody, Giles AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      This paper describes a semantic analysis of terms used to describe citizen sensing and crowdsourced data use in scientific analyses. It applies a latency analysis to journal abstracts downloaded from Scopus that matched ...
    • openAccess   Towns Conquer : A Gamified application to collect geographical names (vernacular names/toponyms) 

      Castellote, Jesús; Huerta, Joaquin; Pescador, Javier; Brown, Michael AGILE (2013)
      The traditional model for geospatial crowd sourcing asks the public to use their free time collecting geospatial data for no obvious reward. This model has shown to work very well on projects such as Open ...
    • openAccess   La traducción amateur en lengua de signos catalana: ¿una alternativa para la adaptación de literatura infantil? 

      Segura Giménez, Daniel; Rovira-Esteva, Sara; Casas-Tost, Helena Universitat d'Alacant (2022)
      Este artículo analiza los resultados de un estudio de recepción con cuestionarios cuyo objetivo era comparar la aceptación por parte de los usuarios finales de las traducciones profesionales y no profesionales en lengua ...
    • openAccess   VGI Edit History Reveals Data Trustworthiness and User Reputation 

      D’Antonio, Fausto; Fogliaroni, Paolo; Kauppinen, Tomi AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) is an approach to crowdsource information about geospatial features around us. People around the world are engaged with typing in their observations about the world (like locations ...