Volunteered geographic information (VGI) can improve quality of life in communities where smartphone apps let residents participate in improving the world around them. …Continue Reading Open Access GIS Data and Quality of Life
Within social networks, people contribute, collaborate, motivate, and communicate to create volunteered geographic information (VGI). …Continue Reading Mapping Social Networks
Celebrate GIS Day with the Libraries on November 16 with an open house from 11 am to 2 pm…Continue Reading GIS Day is Wednesday, November 16
North American Indian Thought and Culture offers autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and even audio files. …Continue Reading Celebrating Native American Heritage Month: New Database
What motivates people to volunteer geographic information? And are some motivators stronger than others? …Continue Reading Open Access Geospatial Motivators
Confused by the varieties of Open Access? “Green OA” and “Gold OA” are terms commonly used in scholarly publishing to denote levels of openness….Continue Reading Green and Gold and Read all Over: Decoding Open Access