GEOCROWD '12Pub Date : 2012-11-06DOI: 10.1145/2442952.2442966
Tricia Melville, Orrette Baker, D. Dolly
{"title":"Spatial knowledge interchange environment: leveraging web 2.0 technologies to breach the knowledge divide in agricultural development","authors":"Tricia Melville, Orrette Baker, D. Dolly","doi":"10.1145/2442952.2442966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2442952.2442966","url":null,"abstract":"Agricultural output has been declining in the Caribbean although several strategies are being implemented to enhance development. The dichotomy between modern external experts (MEE) and locally grounded experts (LGE) generates a fracture that limits agricultural development and hinders good governance. There is a need for a change in the language and interface for decision making in local rural villages amongst stakeholders. This paper discusses the use of modern web technology in support of collaborative exercises that bring agricultural practitioners and their traditional knowledge closer to more remote, modern external experts.\u0000 A more people friendly spatial language application will be explored, harnessing volunteered geographic information (VGI) and participatory decision making on an ESRI ArcGIS platform, while leveraging Web 2.0 technologies that will support knowledge building for agricultural development. Participation represents a new developmental paradigm that fosters empowerment and is needed at the domestic level to propagate a strong sense of democracy in the decision-making process enabling the micro actor, cultivating greater involvement, accountability and thus more sustainable solutions. The effective management of agricultural land and its resources require spatial data that is current, reliable and easily accessible. By extension, this will require systematized informal data and simplified formal data to incorporate and network a functional participatory program for agricultural development.","PeriodicalId":132038,"journal":{"name":"GEOCROWD '12","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116471694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GEOCROWD '12Pub Date : 2012-11-06DOI: 10.1145/2442952.2442956
Linna Li, M. Goodchild
{"title":"Constructing places from spatial footprints","authors":"Linna Li, M. Goodchild","doi":"10.1145/2442952.2442956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2442952.2442956","url":null,"abstract":"Place is an essential concept in human discourse. It is people's interaction and experience with their surroundings that identify place from non-place in space. This paper explores the use of spatial footprints as a record of human interaction with the environment. Specifically, we use geotagged photos collected in Flickr to provide a collective view of sense of place, in terms of significance and location. Spatial footprints associated with photographs can not only describe individual place locations and spatial extents but also the relationship between places, such as hierarchy. This type of information about place may be utilized to study the way people understand their landscape, or can be incorporated into existing gazetteers for geographic information retrieval and location-based services. Other sources of user-generated geographic information, such as Foursquare and Twitter, may also be harvested and aggregated to study place in a similar way.","PeriodicalId":132038,"journal":{"name":"GEOCROWD '12","volume":"48 56","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114058286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}