Sorry, this was drawn to my attention.
I can vouch that Zoe Gardner is a researcher at Nottingham University
Geospatial Institute. Her institutional webpage is here: Zoe Gardner - The
University of Nottingham
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Zoe took the time to come along to the Nottingham OSM July meeting, and I've
bumped into her at a University facility on the Jubilee Campus site when I had
a further discussion of her research (and probably caused her coffee to get a
bit cool, in which case my apologies). I also believe, and I think it is stated
in some of her emails, that she is collaborating with Dr Peter Mooney of
Maynooth University in Ireland. He was a co-editor on a recent scholarly
multi-author book on OSM, and has presented work at various SotM conferences.
I have no affiliation with Nottingham University nor with her research. I
therefore cannot say why her institutional email address has not been used,
although I would expect that for this type of activity a distinct email address
is probably useful to avoid confusion with regular day-job communications.
I have not checked, but normally research of this kind, storing personal data,
will need some approval via an ethics committee. Furthermore institutions in
Britain and Europe need to adhere to current (and future) European data
protection legislation.
Requiring researchers to seek approval for their research via OSMF, or local
chapters (affiliated or otherwise), would, in my view, raise a rather high bar
for academics, and one which may be perceived to be contra OSM's openness. On
the other hand the it may be appropriate for OSMF to consider guidelines w.r.t.
collection of personal data of mappers for academic research, particularly as
the new European directive comes into force next year.
HTH,
Jerry CloughSK53
From: Charlotte Wolter <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, 4 September 2017, 19:25
Subject: [Talk-us] Fwd: Open survey on participation biases in OSM
Follks,
It wouldbe nice if we could get some confirmation that this is a real
researchprojects being done by an actual researcher at Nottingham. If it
islegit, why is the return email address from Gmail rather than theuniversity?
Is theresome mechanism that we can set up to confirm that the
research is forreal, such as running it through the US board first? I don't
mindcontributing to a survey. I just want to be sure it is for real.
Charlotte
From: Zoe Gardner<[email protected]>
To: [email protected] ...snip... [email protected]
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 theUniversity
of Nottingham in the UK, interested in participation biases ingeospatial
crowd-sourced projects such as OSM and other VolunteeredGeographical
Information (VGI) projects. My current research project isconcerned with the
way in which participation biases in OSM maypotentially affect the usability of
the data that is collected andsubsequently what is available to location-based
service providers thatuse OSM as their primary geospatial database.
The project is motivated by recent research that has found a strong malebias in
OSM participation. This has led to assertions that variousgeospatial knowledge
could be under represented or poorly recorded on themap. However, the actual
consequences of this bias remain little exploredor reported. By collecting
information about contributors to OSM, whichcan then be analyzed along with
their editing patterns, the impacts ofthis bias might begin to be measured and
therefore better understood. Ihave therefore published an online survey
designed to collect informationdirectly from OSM editors and I would like to
invite as many of you aspossible to participate. The survey is anonymous and
takes a couple ofminutes to complete.
If you are an OSM contributor and are interested in or would like toparticipate
in the study, please click on the link below, which will takeyou to the Bristol
Online Survey website where you will find moreinformation and an opportunity to
participate in the survey. As a smallincentive, at the close of the survey in a
few weeks' time, 60respondents 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 theway
participation biases impact on crowd-sourced maps will enable newstrategies to
be developed to address any resulting voids in thegeospatial information
provided by amateur mappers. In turn this couldstrengthen the role played by
platforms such as OSM in urban planning andsustainability, and could raise the
profile of the important mapping workthat you all do.
In the meantime, if you would like to know more about me, my researchactivities
or the project, please visit my University webpage (linkbelow) and do not
hesitate to get in touch directly or via the OSMmessaging service.
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/engineering/people/zoe.gardner
Thank you
Zoe
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