Temporal analysis of activity patterns of editors in collaborative mapping project of openstreetmap

Taha Yasseri, Giovanni Quattrone, Afra Mashhadi

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Abstract

In the recent yearsWikis have become an attractive platform for social studies of the human behaviour. Containing mil- lions records of edits across the globe, collaborative systems such as Wikipedia have allowed researchers to gain a bet- Ter understanding of editors participation and their activity patterns. However, contributions made to Geo-wikis wiki- based collaborative mapping projects dier from systems such as Wikipedia in a fundamental way due to spatial di- mension of the content that limits the contributors to a set of those who posses local knowledge about a specic area and therefore cross-platform studies and comparisons are required to build a comprehensive image of online open col- laboration phenomena. In this work, we study the temporal behavioural pattern of OpenStreetMap editors, a successful example of geo-wiki, for two European capital cities. We categorise dierent type of temporal patterns and report on the historical trend within a period of 7 years of the project age. We also draw a comparison with the previously ob- served editing activity patterns of Wikipedia. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.2.8 [Database Management]: Database Applications Spatial Databases and GIS; H.5.3 [Group and Orga- nization Interfaces]: Collaborative computing, computer- supported cooperative work General Terms Human Factors, Measurement.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, WikiSym + OpenSym 2013
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, WikiSym + OpenSym 2013 - Hong Kong, China
Duration: 5 Aug 20137 Aug 2013

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, WikiSym + OpenSym 2013

Conference

Conference9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, WikiSym + OpenSym 2013
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period5/08/137/08/13

Keywords

  • Circadian pattern
  • Eigenbehaviour
  • Geo-wiki
  • Mass collaboration
  • Openstreetmap
  • Principal component analysis
  • Wikipedia

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