TY - JOUR
T1 - Motivation for Open Collaboration
T2 - Crowd and Community Models and the Case of OpenStreetMap
AU - Budhathoki, Nama R.
AU - Haythornthwaite, Caroline
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This material is based in part on work supported by a grant from Yahoo! and in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under Grant No. RE-03-07-0007-07. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funders.
PY - 2013/5
Y1 - 2013/5
N2 - This article presents an examination of motivational factors relating to contribution to the wiki OpenStreetMap, a site for voluntary geographic information. Based on a wide literature review of motivation, open source, volunteerism, and serious leisure, a questionnaire was created and completed by 444 OpenStreetMap contributors. Results of judgments of the motivational importance of 39 reasons for contribution are presented and considered in relation to models of contributory behavior for crowd- and community-based online collaborations. Positive and important motivators were found that accorded with ideas of the "personal but shared need" associated with contribution to open-source projects, co-orientation to open-source and geographic knowledge, and attention to participation in and by the community. Differences in motivation between serious and casual mappers showed that serious mappers were more oriented to community, learning, local knowledge, and career motivations (although the latter motivation is low in general), and casual mappers were more oriented to general principles of free availability of mapping data.
AB - This article presents an examination of motivational factors relating to contribution to the wiki OpenStreetMap, a site for voluntary geographic information. Based on a wide literature review of motivation, open source, volunteerism, and serious leisure, a questionnaire was created and completed by 444 OpenStreetMap contributors. Results of judgments of the motivational importance of 39 reasons for contribution are presented and considered in relation to models of contributory behavior for crowd- and community-based online collaborations. Positive and important motivators were found that accorded with ideas of the "personal but shared need" associated with contribution to open-source projects, co-orientation to open-source and geographic knowledge, and attention to participation in and by the community. Differences in motivation between serious and casual mappers showed that serious mappers were more oriented to community, learning, local knowledge, and career motivations (although the latter motivation is low in general), and casual mappers were more oriented to general principles of free availability of mapping data.
KW - OpenStreetMap
KW - community
KW - crowdsourcing
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U2 - 10.1177/0002764212469364
DO - 10.1177/0002764212469364
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84876166790
SN - 0002-7642
VL - 57
SP - 548
EP - 575
JO - American Behavioral Scientist
JF - American Behavioral Scientist
IS - 5
ER -