Research Resource List

Here is the Research Resource List written in PROV 504 course. By studying the research resources, I got to know the distinguished scholars in Volunteered Geographic Information field and have gained a better understanding of the relationship between papers, journals, organizations and scholars. It is an efficient way for us as graduate students to become familiar with our research field. By tracing the work published by outstanding scholars, we could know the developing history and what is the current research topic. The work we have done will be a great help for our own research in graduate study.

I am very interested in Volunteered Geographic Iinformation (VGI) in geographic information science field. VGI is the harnessing of tools to create, assemble, and disseminate geographic data provided voluntarily by individuals (Goodchild, 2007). With the coming of Web 2.0, more information is collected and shared by common users. Some VGI applications such as Wikipedia and Open Street Map include more broad and up-to-date information. It is an efficient way to obtain data for common users. They could connect, integrate and organize the scattered data by themselves and share with each other. Considering VGI data is free and open access, it will be a significant source to obtain spatial information in the future. Common users could not only be invited to provide specific kind of information, but also get greater relevance to geographic understanding. Here are the major references, handbooks, journals, books and associations in GIS field.

Key references, handbooks, or encyclopedias

  1. Wilson, J. P., & Fotheringham, A. S. (Eds.). (2008).The handbook of geographic information science. John Wiley & Sons.
  2. Schuch, H. C. (1993).GIS data conversion handbook. John Wiley & Sons.
  3. Goodchild, M. F. (2007). Citizens as sensors: the world of volunteered geography.GeoJournal, 69(4), 211-221.
  4. Goodchild, M. F. (2008). Commentary: whither VGI?.GeoJournal, 72(3), 239-244.
  5. Grossner, K. E., Goodchild, M. F., & Clarke, K. C. (2008). Defining a digital earth system.Transactions in GIS, 12(1), 145-160.
  6. Sui, D. (2014), Opportunities and Impediments for Open GIS. Transactions in GIS, 18: 1–24. doi: 10.1111/tgis.12075
  7. Snyder, J. (1987). Map projections: A working manual. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
  8. Flanagin, A. J., & Metzger, M. J. (2008). The credibility of volunteered geographic information. GeoJournal, 72(3-4), 137-148.
  9. Nyerges, T., & Couclelis, H. (2011). The SAGE Handbook of GIS and Society. London: SAGE Publications.
  10. Croswell, P. (2009). The GIS management handbook: Concepts, practices, and tools for planning, implementing, and managing geographic information system projects and programs. Frankfort, Ky.: Kessey Dewitt Pubulications.
  11. Fotheringham, A. (2009). The SAGE handbook of spatial analysis. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications.
  12. Rain, D. (2009). Handbook on geospatial infrastructure in support of census activities. New York: United Nations.
  13. Shekhar, S., & Xiong, H. (Eds.). (2008).Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer.

Many papers I select was written by Michael Frank Goodchild, who is the founder of Geographic information science and who came up with the concept volunteered geographic information. Articles written by him may have high authoritativeness.

Major journals

  1. Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering,
  2. International Journal of Geographical Information Science
  3. Journal of Hydrology
  4. European Planning Studies
  5. GeoJournal
  6. Nature
  7. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
  8. Journal of Environmental Mmanagement
  9. Cartography
  10. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
  11. Transactions in GIS
  12. International Journal of Digital Earth
  13. CAGIS journal
  14. American Geographers

These are the high quality journals in Geographic information science field. They have very strict methods to examine papers delivered to them, some journals like GeoJournal and Transactions are top journal in GIS field. They use peer reviewed method to select papers. They have high authoritativeness in geographic information science field.

Influential books or seminal works

  1. Lieberman, M. and Lin, J., 2009. You are where you edit: locating Wikipedia contributors throughedit histories.In:3rd international AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 17–20 May,San Jose, CA.
  2. Maguire, D.J., 2007. GeoWeb 2.0 and volunteered geographic information. In: NCGIA Workshop on Volunteered Geographic Information, 13–14 December, Santa Barbara, CA
  3. Sieber, R. (2006). Public participation geographic information systems: A literature review and framework.Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 96(3), 491-507.
  4. Elwood, S., Goodchild, M. F., & Sui, D. Z. (2012). Researching volunteered geographic information: Spatial data, geographic research, and new social practice.Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 102(3), 571-590.
  5. Zook, M., 2005. The geographies of the Internet. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 40 (1), 53–78.
  6. Imbriano, R. (2006). Key constitutional concepts (Widescreen. ed.). Philadelphia, Pa.?: Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands.
  7. Zeng, H.,et al., 2006. Computing trust from revision history. In:international conference on privacy, security and trust, Markham, Ontario, Canada, 30 October.
  8. Dale, P. (2014). Mathematical Techniques in GIS, Second Edition (2nd ed.). Hoboken: Taylor and Francis.
  9. Nyerges, T., & Jankowski, P. (2010). Regional and urban GIS: A decision support approach. New York: Guilford Press.
  10. Hardy, D. (2010).Volunteered geographic information in Wikipedia. University of California, Santa Barbara.
  11. Stillwell, J., & Clarke, G. (Eds.). (2004).Applied GIS and spatial analysis. Chichester: Wiley.
  12. De Smith, M. J., Goodchild, M. F., & Longley, P. (2007).Geospatial analysis: a comprehensive guide to principles, techniques and software tools. Troubador Publishing Ltd.
  13. Bolstad, P. (2002). GIS fundamentals: A first text on geographic information systems. White Bear Lake, Minn.: Eider Press.
  14. Davis, S. (2007). GIS for web developers.Dallas, Texas: The Pragmatic Programmers.
  15. Mitchell, T. (2005).Web mapping illustrated: Using open source GIS toolkits. “O’Reilly Media, Inc.”.
  16. Arctur, D., & Zeiler, M. (2004).Designing Geodatabases: case studies in GIS data modeling (Vol. 380). Redlands, CA: Esri Press.
  17. Burrough, P. A., McDonnell, R., Burrough, P. A., & McDonnell, R. (1998). Principles of geographical information systems(Vol. 333). Oxford: Oxford university press.
  18. Sherman, G. (2008).Desktop GIS: Mapping the Planet with Open Source Tools. Pragmatic Bookshelf.
  19. Mackaness, W. A., Ruas, A., & Sarjakoski, L. T. (Eds.). (2011). Generalisation of geographic information: cartographic modelling and applications. Elsevier.
  20. Goodchild, M. F., Steyaert, L. T., & Parks, B. O. (Eds.). (1996).GIS and environmental modeling: progress and research issues. John Wiley & Sons.

Seminal works often involve the current research topic. Some new theories may first be putting forward by scholars in a seminal work to get peer scholars comments. It is an efficient way for students to familiar with the recent advance in one field.

Associations or Organizations

  1. Association of American geographers(AAG)
  2. International World Wide Web Conference Committee
  3. National Research Council
  4. American Congress on Surveying & Mapping
  5. International Cartographic Association
  6. Geography Network
  7. Association for Geographic Information (AGI)
  8. University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS)
  9. Geospatial Information and Technology Association
  10. International Association of Chinese Professional in Geographic Information Sciences (CPGIS)

The members of these associations or organizations are geographers and related professionals. On annual conference of these associations, participants will present their research achievements. Papers of the members of these associations or organizations been largely quoted in Google Scholar. Some organizations like Association of American geographers have their own publish journals.