Data Intermediation and Beyond: Issues for Web-Based PPGIS
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article explores the implications of moving public participation GIS (PPGIS) onto the World Wide Web. It discusses the potential benefits and impediments of using the Web for PPGIS application; it then uses a PPGIS project developed solely on the Web as a case study to illustrate various issues such projects may face. It finds that the cost-benefit calculus in this transition is ambivalent: whereas some costs decrease, other threshold costs actually increase. Moving PPGIS to the Web will not undermine the traditional intermediation role of PPGIS but, rather, diversify it. The Web helps attract "occasional users" to use GIS; however, this creates new challenges for PPGIS providers, who used to work with defined clients and must now cultivate client support to anonymous clients. The Web has greatly improved connectivity and data access, which, in turn, promote collaboration among geographic and non-geographic information providers. In this context, the Web increases awareness of integrating non-geographic information such as local knowledge into GIS operations. The article concludes that Web technology alone is not sufficient to enhance the capability of every community group and resident to use GIS, to change the reality that GIS is a specialized skill, or to significantly level the unequal socio-economic or political relationships that hinder participation in distressed communities.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it