… explores the distinctive characteristics of VGI use and production that introduce new … VGI
value and the potential to adapt the ‘fitness-for-use’ concept to guide user assessments of VGI …

… Here, the assumption is that as VGI datasets are mainly user generated content, the
monitoring of demographics can function as proxy of some quality elements and especially for …

… Coproduction preceded Web 2.0 but is reinvigorated by VGI, through the fusion of users and
contributors of content. Termed produsage (Bruns, 2008), this describes a structural shift in …

… VGI is likely to be most relevant to the user when a geographic feature is dynamic rather than
… the implementation of User Centred Design (UCD) principles when integrating VGI and PGI …

… The concept of VGI came from practitioners, users, and researchers in GI Science who were
more interested in the information itself than in whether it was a participatory process that …

… aspects of the user information landscape. Considering the opportunities to influence user
activities, both VGI and PGI have a greater ability to influence the user in the planning phase …

… Carrera and Ferreira 2007], we can explain why VGI resources receive a great response
from the users community. Web services, such as OpenStreetMap, have the advantage of …

… The workshop was called “LINK-VGI: LINKing and analyzing VGI across different platforms”.
… for extracting VGI data. Researchers, planners, and interested end-users can benefit from …

… to help end-users to deal with the risk of misusing VGI data. To this end… user requirements
and the provided VGI. Then, we evaluate a set of indicators to assess the fitness-for-use of VGI …

… While a number of early VGI studies used conventional methods to assess data quality, such
approaches are not always well adapted to VGI. Since VGI is a user-generated content, we …