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New and unprecedented sources of geographic information have recently become available in the form of user-generated web content. The integration and application of these sources often termed volunteered geographic information (VGI), Crowdsourced geographic information and citizen science offer multidisciplinary scientists an unprecedented opportunity to conduct research on a variety of topics at multiple spatial and temporal scales.
Since applications generating VGI are not often designed specifically for data production or analytical purposes, the research network aims at the following to fill this gap, recognising the potential value of these sources to the EU in citizen-based decision-making. This European network of excellence on GeoWeb technologies focuses on VGI and citizen science and gathers efforts carried out in an innovative and under-exploited field of Web research and knowledge production.