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Web GIS in practice VI: a demo playlist of geo-mashups for public health neogeographers

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Health Geographics, July 2008
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Title
Web GIS in practice VI: a demo playlist of geo-mashups for public health neogeographers
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International Journal of Health Geographics, July 2008
DOI 10.1186/1476-072x-7-38
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Maged N Kamel Boulos, Matthew Scotch, Kei-Hoi Cheung, David Burden

Abstract

'Mashup' was originally used to describe the mixing together of musical tracks to create a new piece of music. The term now refers to Web sites or services that weave data from different sources into a new data source or service. Using a musical metaphor that builds on the origin of the word 'mashup', this paper presents a demonstration "playlist" of four geo-mashup vignettes that make use of a range of Web 2.0, Semantic Web, and 3-D Internet methods, with outputs/end-user interfaces spanning the flat Web (two-dimensional - 2-D maps), a three-dimensional - 3-D mirror world (Google Earth) and a 3-D virtual world (Second Life). The four geo-mashup "songs" in this "playlist" are: 'Web 2.0 and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) for infectious disease surveillance', 'Web 2.0 and GIS for molecular epidemiology', 'Semantic Web for GIS mashup', and 'From Yahoo! Pipes to 3-D, avatar-inhabited geo-mashups'. It is hoped that this showcase of examples and ideas, and the pointers we are providing to the many online tools that are freely available today for creating, sharing and reusing geo-mashups with minimal or no coding, will ultimately spark the imagination of many public health practitioners and stimulate them to start exploring the use of these methods and tools in their day-to-day practice. The paper also discusses how today's Web is rapidly evolving into a much more intensely immersive, mixed-reality and ubiquitous socio-experiential Metaverse that is heavily interconnected through various kinds of user-created mashups.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 6 3%
Brazil 4 2%
Canada 4 2%
United Kingdom 3 2%
Germany 2 1%
Kenya 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Ghana 1 <1%
Malta 1 <1%
Other 6 3%
Unknown 151 84%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 33 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 30 17%
Student > Master 25 14%
Professor > Associate Professor 11 6%
Student > Bachelor 11 6%
Other 44 24%
Unknown 26 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 40 22%
Social Sciences 26 14%
Medicine and Dentistry 23 13%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 14 8%
Engineering 11 6%
Other 34 19%
Unknown 32 18%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 October 2014.
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#6,754,036
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Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Health Geographics
#4
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