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Beyond data collection: Objectives and methods of research using VGI and geo-social media for disaster management
This paper investigates research using VGI and geo-social media in the disaster management
context. Relying on the method of systematic mapping, it develops a classification schema that
captures three levels of main category, focus, and intended use, and analyzes the relationships
with the employed data sources and analysis methods. It focuses the scope to the pioneering
field of disaster management, but the described approach and the developed classification
schema are easily adaptable to different application domains or future developments. The
results show that a hypothesized consolidation of research, characterized through the building
of canonical bodies of knowledge and advanced application cases with refined methodology,
has not yet happened. The majority of the studies investigate the challenges and potential
solutions of data handling, with fewer studies focusing on socio-technological issues or
advanced applications. This trend is currently showing no sign of change, highlighting that VGI
research is still very much technology-driven as opposed to theory- or application-driven. From
the results of the systematic mapping study, the authors formulate and discuss several
research objectives for future work, which could lead to a stronger, more theory-driven
treatment of the topic VGI in GIScience.Carlos Granell has been partly funded by the Ramón y Cajal Programme (grant number RYC-2014-16913