Ensuring the Citizen is at the heart of the COBWEB - Citizen Observatory Web - Jamie Williams, Environment Systems
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"Ensuring the Citizen is at the heart of the COBWEB - Citizen Observatory Web" presentation by Jamie Williams, Environment Systems as part of the European Commission Speakers' Corner programme at GEO X, Geneva, Switzerland, 15th January 2014.
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Ensuring the Citizen is at the heart of the COBWEB - Citizen Observatory Web - Jamie Williams, Environment Systems
- 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. • 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
- 3. • Crowd sourced environmental data • Introduce quality measures and reduce uncertainty • Fusion of crowd sourced data with reference data… • Spatial Data Infrastructure - like initiatives 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? Sensors in the environment The crowd Validated Quality approved Compliant Data client Authoritative data - Commercial - Government - Community
- 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: 1. Validating Earth observation; 2. Biological monitoring; 3. 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 Coed Tŷ Gwyn Education Wildlife Products Health and Well Being Recreation 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
- 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.
Editor's Notes
- COBWEB is obliged to work within GEOSS, withcommon methodologies and standards for data archiving, discovery and access.The data collected by the cobweb infrastructure will be made available through GEOSS.
- Cobweb is an infrastructure for consuming crowd sourced data from mobile devices, such as text, images or position information....With the addition of a quality assessment, the data will have more value for informing the decision making process.
- Cobweb is focusing on the UNESCO biosphere reserve network...
- Cobweb will produce demonstrators in 3 subject area.....Initially focused on wales, but will role out to...
- Before we started on designing the architecture, we undertook extensive engagement activities within the biosphere reserves.This allowed us to identify potential stakeholders.
- Cobweb is gathering user requirements from the stakeholder. These requirements then feed back into the architecture design via case studies which contain use cases.
- So just to emphasis this, it is the requirements gathered directly from the stakeholders that influences the COBWEB architecture.
- An example stakeholder is Dyfi woodland, and NGO. Dyfi woodland currently using volunteers to develop a woodland management plan. The information collected is on clipboards and they currently do not use mobile application. This is an example of how COBWEB can take dyfi woodland requirements for data gathering and transfer them to a system requirements.
- These are some of the requirements Dyfi woodland identified.
- COBWEB has already developed a prototype which meets 1 of these requirements, which is ‘to be able to visualise their data on the web’.
- These screen shots show their data displayed in a browser.We are planning to address the others requirements in the coming months.
- As an academic located within the biosphere, Aberystwyth universty requires students to go out on field work within the BR, to validate their EO products.
- COBWEB had built upon the open source application, field trip GB, to prototype the requirements identified.
- To further develop the relationship between the stakeholder and cobweb...