Crowdsourcing for Film-Induced Tourism: An Approach to Geolocation.

This paper presents an initial proposal for the development of a crowdsourcing platform aimed at gathering information about audiovisual productions. Our goal is to foster the task of identifying movie excerpts that are filmed in a given location and of manually geolocating these excerpts. In this way it is possible to link audio-visual content to a geographical area. The information is used to populate a database system that is the core component for designing novel film-induced tourism offers. The task of identifying the locations of movies, TV and web series, spots and music videos is carried out by a community of non experts, using a crowdsourcing approach where participation and engagement are promoted by a reputation mechanism. The paper presents a multilevel approach to geolocation and discusses its motivations and initial results.