COBWEB presentation given at the Citizens' Observatories: Empowering European Society Open Conference, which took place on 4th December 2014, Brussels, Belgium.

1. COBWEB
Thurs 4th Dec, 2014
CITIZENS OBSERVATORIES:
EMPOWERING EUROPEAN SOCIETY
OPEN CONFERENCE,
Management Centre Europe, Brussels
Chris Higgins
COBWEB Project Coordinator
EDINA, University of Edinburgh.
chris.higgins@ed.ac.uk

2. Citizen Observatory Web
• Generic crowdsourcing infrastructure
• Data which supports policy
• Address data quality issues
• Open standards
A toolkit which can be
downloaded and used
in multiple scenarios

3. Project Partners

4. UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves
Sites of excellence to foster
harmonious integration of people and
nature for sustainable development
through participation, knowledge
sharing, poverty reduction and human
well-being improvements, cultural
values and society's ability to cope
with change, thus contributing to the
Millennium Development Goals

5. COBWEB Biosphere Reserves
Biosffer Dyfi Biosphere
Mount Olympus
Gorge of Samaria
Wadden See & Hallig islands

6. Overall Project Status
• Halfway through
• Month 24: major
milestone:
• First demonstrator completed and ready for
testing in the field
• COBWEB Platform Release - Intermediate
Version
• First public demonstration today!

7. First two years…
Can be characterised by:
• Lots of stakeholder engagement
• Requirements gathering driving …
– Architecture development
• Rapid prototyping
• Last few months characterised by integrating
various components and deploying the initial
platform

8. COBWEB Framework
OGC Web Services:
• WPS: Web Processing Service
• WFS: Web Feature Service
• WMS: Web Map Service
• SOS: Sensor Observation
Service

9. Next 2 years…7 Co-design sub-projects
Ysgol Bro Hyddgen
Penparcau Community
Forum

10. Next 2 years…emphasis shifting
• Rolling out software
• Getting greater buy-in
• Sustainability
• More focus on research agenda
• Moving onto Greece, Germany
• Additional Biosphere Reserves
– Europe
– Global