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CyberGIS Considerations for Structured Participation Methods in Collaborative Problem Solving

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Abstract

In the age of Web 2.0, many online environments support user-generated content and social media integration; however, to enable collaborative problem-solving in CyberGIS we must go beyond information dissemination and provide an integrated analytic-deliberative collaboratory—an environment for high-performance collaboration. The Structured Participation Toolkit (SPT) allows structured participation methods to be seamlessly integrated into the CyberGIS Gateway to support large-scale, asynchronous participation; structured analytic deliberation; consensus-building and decision-making; as well as to provide an open, transparent decision repository and participation metrics for reporting and analysis. The SPT is deployed as pluggable graphical user interface widgets to enable cross-platform and cross-domain communication based on a service-oriented architecture approach.

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Notes

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    See the W3C definition of Web services at www.w3.org/TR/ws-arch/. While specifically for SOAP Web services, non-SOAP services follow a similar design paradigm.

  2. 2.

    See Sencha’s website: http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/ for more functional and technical information.

  3. 3.

    See the PGIST website, CyberGIS Software Requirements: Participatory Process at http://depts.washington.edu/pgist/cybergis/softreq.

  4. 4.

    See the ESRI’s Geoportal at www.esri.com/software/arcgis/geoportal and the Federal Geographic Data Committee’s Geospatial Platform at www.geoplatform.gov.

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Acknowledgments

CyberGIS research funded by the National Science Foundation Grant No. OCI-1047916 Office of Cyberinfrastructure, Software Institutes, Cross-Directorate Active Programs, Geography and Spatial Sciences, and Method, Measure & Statistics Programs. LIT research supported by National Science Foundation Grant No. EIA 0325916, funded through the Information Technology Research Program, and managed in the Digital Government Program. VCC research funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Climate Program Office, Sectoral Applications Research Program #NA07OAR4310410.

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    Mary J. Roderick, Timothy L. Nyerges & Michalis Avraam

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Roderick, M.J., Nyerges, T.L., Avraam, M. (2019). CyberGIS Considerations for Structured Participation Methods in Collaborative Problem Solving. In: Wang, S., Goodchild, M. (eds) CyberGIS for Geospatial Discovery and Innovation. GeoJournal Library, vol 118. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1531-5_15

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