Posts by: Andrea Capocci

After crowdmapping, no-one-around-mapping?

By On 23/02/2012 · Leave a Comment

To crowdmap a region, first of all you need a crowd. As people are lazy, you need a lot of small contribution to get a meaningful geographical annotation. Of course, this is more easily done in cities, and that’s why projects like OpenStreetMap work so well in big towns like London or New York.

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ExCiteS and XTribe on the New Scientist

By On 21/02/2012 · Leave a Comment

The science magazine New Scientist had a nice piece on two research projects strictly connected with – when not an outcome of – the everyAware project, as they involve two partners of it (UCL and ISI). A quoting from Jerome Lewis‘ interview captures quite the whole sense of everyAware (although he […]

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Citizen cyberscientists gather in 2012

By On 13/01/2012 · Leave a Comment

The 2012 edition of the London Citizen Cyberscience Summit has been recently announced. It will take place in London from 16 to 18 February 2012, and some leading figures of worldwide citizen science projects have already confirmed their attendance there. The proposal for papers and talks should be submitted here. The announced three-day […]

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GIS Wikification by the masses

By On 11/01/2012 · Leave a Comment

A new interesting article on volunteered “GIS systems, OpenStreetMap and all that stuff is out, whose long long title is “Crowdsourcing, citizen sensing and Sensor Web technologies for public and environmental health surveillance and crisis management: trends, OGC standards and application examples”. It is authored (among others) by Maged N. Kamel Boulos and […]

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Inside, not outside

By On 19/12/2011 · Leave a Comment

Citizen science projects grow in number and in relevance everyday. As research funding and credibility risk to be undermined by the current crisis, professional scientists should be happy about this new trend: lots of people ask them to collaborate to specific science problems and help them in a way or another. Unfortunately, scientists do not […]

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