IEEE Internet Computing
Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business
Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business
Weaving a distributed, semantic social network for mobile users
ESWC'11 Proceedings of the 8th extended semantic web conference on The semantic web: research and applications - Volume Part I
Sensing places' life to make city smarter
Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on Urban Computing
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The term Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) describes various layperson-based, geo-collaboration projects to collect, maintain, and visualize information. VGI has been successfully utilized in scenarios such as emergency response and is also increasingly integrated into commercial products. Based on an analysis of existing projects and research, we propose to extend the idea of VGI by introducing Volunteered Geographic Services (VGS). Instead of contributing information, volunteers can request or offer microservices to their local community. We provide a flexible server framework that handles service requests and offers. We also implement a smartphone application developed using Google's Android platform. The server and mobile client are realized following the Linked Data paradigm and using Semantic Web technologies. In this paper, we discuss the idea behind VGS, motivate it using two scenarios, and explain the technical realization.