If it helps, I can confirm that I have met the researcher concerned at an OSM meetup in Nottingham. We talked about the project a bit, and what's been said about the research here doesn't differ from what was said then.
Happy to answer questions from the US board if anyone thinks it will add to the "web of trust" here :)
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
<zoegardn...@gmail.com>
To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org ...snip... talk...@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
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
Thank you
Zoe
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