Web 2.0 Broker: A standards-based service for spatio-temporal search of crowd-sourced information

Applied Geography

Volumn 35, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 448-459

  Díaz, Laura ^a   Granell, Carlos ^b   Huerta, Joaquín ^a   Gould, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crowd sourced data; OpenSearch; Spatio temporal search; Web 2.0 Broker; Web 2.0 services

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84867818162     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2012.09.008     Document Type: Article

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