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The hashtag, a phrase that is highlighted by preceding it with a hash symbol (#), is already 6 years old. People use it on a massive scale in social media, with two objectives: to tag (or label) conversations and content, and to identify communities. It can be used also as a rhetorical [...]

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Opac has been in the eye of the hurricane for a number of years, evolving to provide management programs with more functionality in terms of accessibility, understood as the capacity to recover information. It is logical to imagine that this has been for the user’s benefit, but [...]

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These slides were presented at State of the Map 2017 conference in Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan (http://2017.stateofthemap.org). They aim to provide an overview on some current research trends on OpenStreetMap (OSM), focusing in particular on three research works I have carried out over [...]

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In Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) projects, the tagging or annotation of objects is usually performed in a flexible and non-constrained manner. Contributors to a VGI project are normally free to choose whatever tags they feel are appropriate to annotate or describe a particular [...]