Protocol of the Systematic Literature Review

Title: A Systematic Literature Review regarding Quality Assessment Methods for Volunteered Geographic Information

Researchers: Livia Castro Degrossi, João Porto de Albuquerque, Roberto dos Santos Rocha and Alexander Zipf. 

Objective: The main objective of the systematic literature review is to identify primary studies that propose or analyze methods for quality assessment of volunteered geographic information.

Research question: What are the methods used to assess the quality of CGI?

Intervation: Quality assessment of volunteered geographic information
Control: Not applicable
Population: Volunteered Geographic Information
Results: To identify how the quality of volunteered geographic information is evaluated.

Keywords: 
(i) Flickr; OpenStreetMap; Social Computing; Social Media; Twitter; VGI; accuracy; citizen based; collaborative mapping; collective intelligence; collective knowledge; credibility; crisis mapping; crowd sourcing; crowd-sourced data; crowd-sourced geographic information; crowd-sourcing; crowdsourcing; geographic; georeferenced; geotagged; 

(ii) quality assessment; quality assurance; quality control; quality evaluation; reliability; spatial; trust; user generated content; user-generated content; volunteered geographic data; volunteered geographic information; 

Language: English and Portuguese

Source Engine: 
(i) ACM; 
(ii) IEEE; 
(iii) Science Direct; 
(iv) Web of Science; 
(v) Scopus. 

Inclusion and exclusion criteria:
(I1) the primary study proposes a method for quality assessment of volunteered geographic information; 
(E1) the primary study is related to quality assessment, but it is not related to volunteered geographic information; 
(E2) the primary study is related to volunteered geographic information, but it does not propose a quality assessment method; 
(E3) the primary study is not in Portuguese or English; 
(E4) the primary study is not available; 
(E5) the primary study is duplicated; 
(E6) the primary study is incomplete; 
(E7) the primary study is a poster, tutorial, technical report or work in progress; 
(E8) the primary study is a conference summary or call for papers; 
(E9) the primary study is not related to quality assessment or volunteered geographic information; 
(E10) the primary study is a literature review; 
(E11) the primary study has not been published between 2005 and 2014; 
(E12) the primary study proposes a method for quality assessment of voluntereed geographic information using authoritative data.