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The Potential to Harness Crowd Sourcing Strategies for Amassing and Vetting Socio-Cultural Dynamics Data on the Open Web
ANDMapStorytelling as Medium for Enabling Decisionmaking
Dr. Christopher K. TuckerChairman/CEO of The MapStory Foundation
The MapStory Foundation was established in order to enable more effective research
into socio-cultural dynamics worldwide, better our citizens' education about the
peoples of the world, reduce social conflict, and improve global security.
The MapStory initiative seeks to develop a social media channel/platform that enables a global community of experts to “crowd source” socio-cultural data within a geospatial and temporal framework.
MapStory is also intended to be an infrastructure enabling “MapStorytelling” as a means of communicating important socio-cultural dynamics to a global audience.
Central Premise
• There is a long history of using the internet to accumulate and organize expert knowledge.
• Social media technologies are enabling vast communities to gather and adjudicate many different kinds of data.
• Geospatial open source technologies now provide geospatially- and temporally-enabled frameworks for value adding and managing complex data.
• There is an enormous volume of valuable data on worldwide socio-cultural dynamics that is not geospatially or temporally persisted or searchable.
• There are an increasing number of providers of socio-cultural dynamics data that are desperately seeking opportunities to have their data be used.
• There is no publicly available repository capable of enabling the accumulation of crowd-sourced socio-cultural dynamics data within a geospatially- and temporally-enabled framework.
• There is no magic USG data repository on socio-cultural dynamics that addresses the geographies of geo-strategic or potential crisis interest.
• All of the people in this community seek to convey their knowledge by telling stories, and often use maps to tell stories. But, the current medium of conveying this knowledge is too static.
Central Premise
Tribes, Clans and Nomadic Peoples
Villages, Towns, Cities and Slums
Armed Groups
Empires, Kingdoms and Dynasties
Slavery, Diasporas and Remittances
Wars, Battles, Treaties, and Borders
Crops, Domesticated Animals and Trades
Genocide, Human Rights Abuses, and Human Trafficking
Hydrography, Waterways, and Transportation
Energy, Natural Resource Energy, Natural Resource Extraction and ProcessingExtraction and Processing
Finance, Manufacturing and Trade
Biological Stress, Extinction, and Invasive Species
State Failure
To Schema or Not to Schema
1. Ethnicity2. Religion3. Demographics4. Language5. Land use, cover, ownership6. Economics7. Education8. Medical/health environment9. Groups (social, political, ideological)10.Communication/media preferences11.Transportation12.Significant events (history)13.Water - water runs through everything.
The Architecture of Participation
The MapStory approach to crowd sourcing socio-cultural data into a geospatially- and temporally-enabled framework depends upon:
Consensus based Schema Evolution:Departing from a collective schema fractures any community coherence. But semantic mappings can be value-added.
High Attribution:All contributors must be unambiguously identified as members of the MapStory community.
Structured Dispute Resolution: Means must be provided for multiple MapStory contributors to resolve differences, resulting in a “best of” representation of data, with a transparent lineage.
http://ecaimaps.berkeley.edu/animations/2003_03_khmer_animation.swf http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/history-of-religion.html http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/ http://www.animatedatlas.com/movie.html http://www.nola.com/katrina/graphics/flashflood.swf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rhode_Island_counties_timeline.gif http://www.esri.com/services/disaster-response/gulf-oil-spill-2010/timeline-map.html http://www.latoyaegwuekwe.com/geographyofarecession.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/animations/wwtwo_map_overlord/index_embed.shtml http://www.cyberlearning-world.com/lessons/ushistory/ww2/ww2maps.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U8CZAKSsNA http://www.historyanimated.com/Iwo.html
Endless MapStorytelling
The Power of MapStories and MapStorytelling
MapStories are simply a container for expressing one’s thoughts based on discrete and documented data sources, in a way that is broadly accessible to the larger world.
MapStorytelling is inherently inter-disciplinary, and provides the common integrative framework of place and time for melding socio-cultural dynamics data from many sources.
MapStorytelling is medium for achieving dialog on complex interdisciplinary issues, where multiple storytellers can draw upon a common pool of underlying data sources in order to challenge each other’s analysis in a coherent manner.
MapStorytelling can become a communal activity, where the basis for one’s MapStory can be the beginning of another’s MapStory challenge.
MapStorytelling Challenges
There is no repository of common socio-cultural data from which to easily draw, or to which one can easily contribute, so everyone reinvents the wheel when telling MapStories.
There is no easily accessible, easy to use toolkit for composing MapStories.
One person’s MapStory cannot serve as the basis for communal dialog because the underlying data is never accessible for rebuttal, improvement, or re-use.
There is no common global “content channel” for the expression of MapStories, and therefore we live in a world of lone MapStorytellers, rather than a community of rich interaction amongst MapStorytellers.
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Summary• There is a huge global community of experts in socio-cultural dynamics that is
energized to express its knowledge geospatially and temporally.
• There is a need to enable the crowd-sourcing of their knowledge on the open Web, within a geospatially- and temporally- enabled framework.
• Due to the complexity of such information, there is a need for a spatially- and temporally- enabled dispute resolution space that allows experts to iterative converge on the best possible representation of human dynamics.
• Millions from many different communities could benefit from a utility and form for engaging in spatially- and temporally- enabled story-telling about human dynamics.
• The MapStory initiative, and the challenges it faces, would benefit greatly from a rich, interdisciplinary university community of social scientists, natural scientists, computer scientists, management and strategy scholars, and bright students of all kinds.
