A Conceptual Framework for Representation of Location-based Social Media Activities (Short Paper)

Authors Xuebin Wei , Xiaobai Angela Yao



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Xuebin Wei
  • Department of Integrated Science and Technology, James Madison University, 701 Carrier Dr, Harrisonburg, VA 22807, USA
Xiaobai Angela Yao
  • Department of Geography, University of Georgia, 210 Field St., Athens, GA 30602, USA

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Xuebin Wei and Xiaobai Angela Yao. A Conceptual Framework for Representation of Location-based Social Media Activities (Short Paper). In 10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 114, pp. 62:1-62:7, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.GISCIENCE.2018.62

Abstract

This research develops a conceptual framework for the representation and analysis of location-based social media activities (LBSMA) in GIS. With increasing popularity of location-based social networking, social media platforms have become new channels to observe human activities in physical and virtual worlds. At the same time, there is a shift of some human interactions from the physical space to the virtual social space. Traditional geographical representation in GIS is not sufficient to handle the increased sophistication of human activities related to, or embedded in, location-based social media data. This research proposes an ontology for the location-based social media activity data and a conceptual framework for them to be modeled in a GIS environment so that interconnections of human activities in spatial-temporal-social dimensions can be represented, organized, retrieved, analyzed, and visualized in the system.

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  • Information systems → Data management systems
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  • GIS
  • Social Media
  • Ontology
  • Location-based Social Media Activity

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