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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 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).
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
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”.
Conceptually, what is COBWEB? Authoritative data Sensors in the environment Validated Quality approved Compliant Data client - Commercial - Government - Community The crowd
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).
Demonstrators • A number of demonstrator applications for mobile devices. • Three subject areas: • Validating Earth observation; • Biological monitoring; • Flooding.
Engagement Reaching the citizen • Face to face engagements, co-design and co-production; • Using volunteer projects, interest groups, local issues.
Stakeholder engagement drives the user requirements. Validated Quality approved Compliant
Stakeholder example - Dyfi woodland Woodland management plan
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
Stakeholder – Aberystwyth University • Geolocation; • Dichotomous key; • Photo catalogue; • Description of observation to be stored.
Co-design • Dyfi woodland • Ysgol Bro Dyfi (local school) • Welsh Government
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.