Thanks for this follow up. I had not read that paper yet but had seen it had come out. I am familiar with Abhishek's other research and will be looking forward to sharing my take on it. -- Martijn van Exel [email protected]
On Tue, Jul 3, 2018, at 11:46, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > this (forwarded message belor) is for Martijn who in another thread > asked if I knew of any research that would back up by claim that "large > imports are often detrimental to community building". I believe the > author had also presented at SotM-US last year. > > Of course in addition to this diligent scientific research, there's also > the theoretical models and discussions in > http://www.asklater.com/matt/blog/2009/09/06/imports-and-the-community/ > and the follow-on post, though these are hardly news! > > I've posted this in a separate thread in order not to further upset > Christoph ;) > > Bye > Frederik > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: Scientific paper on "Information Seeding" > Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 23:10:13 +0200 > From: Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> > To: Talk Openstreetmap <[email protected]> > > Hi, > > today I was pointed to a recent, open-access scientific paper called > "Information Seeding and Knowledge Production in Online Communities: > Evidence from OpenStreetMap". This open-access paper is available here > > https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3044581 > > In the context of armchair mapping, but especially of data imports (and > recently, machine-generated OSM data) there's always been the discussion > between those who say "careful, too much importing will hurt the growth > of a local community", and others who say "this import is going to > kick-start a local community, let's do it!" > > Until now this has been a rather un-proven matter of belief, and the > general mood is usually in favour of a quick build-up of data (through > remote mapping, importing, or machine learning) instead of a > take-it-slow approach that would wait for a community to form and take > matters into their own hands. > > The paper quoted above uses OSM as a research object and finds that in > certain ways imports in OSM have indeed harmed community growth. The > paper attempts to provide insights helpful for all kinds of > user-generated knowledge projects (not necessarily OSM), and > draws the following conclusion: > > "While information seeding could be useful to encourage the production > of distant forms of follow-on knowledge, it might demotivate and > under-provide more mundane and incremental follow-on information. > Accordingly, if managers are interested in leveraging pre-existing > information to spur the development of online communities, they might be > better served by withholding some pre-existing information and provide > community members with some space to create knowledge from scratch—even > if such knowledge already exists in an external source. This policy allows > community members to become invested in the community and develop > ownership over the knowledge." > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
