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Ensuring the Citizen is at the heart of the COBWEB - Citizen Observatory web

Ensuring the Citizen is at the heart of the COBWEB - Citizen Observatory web. 15/01/14 Jamie Williams jamie.williams@envsys.co.uk. The COBWEB project. Project started 01/11/2012 and will run for 4 years; Funded under the European Commission’s Framework Programme 7 (Grant No: 308513).

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Ensuring the Citizen is at the heart of the COBWEB - Citizen Observatory web

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  1. Ensuring the Citizen is at the heart of the COBWEB - Citizen Observatory web 15/01/14 Jamie Williams jamie.williams@envsys.co.uk

  2. The COBWEB project • Project started 01/11/2012 and will run for 4 years; • Funded under the European Commission’s Framework Programme 7 (Grant No: 308513).

  3. The COBWEB project • Crowd sourced environmental data • Introduce quality measures and reduce uncertainty • Fusion of crowd sourced data with reference data… • Spatial Data Infrastructure - like initiatives

  4. The COBWEB project

  5. COBWEB’s Obligations • COBWEB is obliged to work within GEOSS framework; • common methodologies and standards for data archiving, discovery and access. • “Data collected should be made available through the GEOSS without any restrictions”.

  6. Conceptually, what is COBWEB? Authoritative data Sensors in the environment Validated  Quality approved  Compliant Data client - Commercial - Government - Community The crowd

  7. Study areas • COBWEB is creating a platform to enable citizens within UNESCO Biosphere Reserves to collect environmental data using mobile devices. • These UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves including those in Dyfi (Wales); Samaria, Mount Olympus (Greece); and Wadden Sea and Islands of Schleswig-Holstein (Germany).

  8. Demonstrators • A number of demonstrator applications for mobile devices. • Three subject areas: • Validating Earth observation; • Biological monitoring; • Flooding.

  9. Engagement Reaching the citizen • Face to face engagements, co-design and co-production; • Using volunteer projects, interest groups, local issues.

  10. Feedback loop

  11. Stakeholder engagement drives the user requirements. Validated  Quality approved  Compliant

  12. Stakeholder example - Dyfi woodland Woodland management plan

  13. Dyfi woodland requirements examples • Pictures to aid identification of species; • Time stamped information; • Description of observation to be stored; • Visualise data entries on web based map

  14. Prototype visualisation

  15. Prototype visualisation

  16. Stakeholder – Aberystwyth University • Geolocation; • Dichotomous key; • Photo catalogue; • Description of observation to be stored.

  17. Stakeholder – Aberystwyth University

  18. Co-design • Dyfi woodland • Ysgol Bro Dyfi (local school) • Welsh Government

  19. Thank you http://cobwebproject.eu/ info@cobwebproject.eu Find out more at Citizens Observatories booth of the European Commission Stand, and at the OGC stand.

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