COST Action 15212 on citizen science - WG5 - Standardisation and interoperability

1. COST Action CA15212
Citizen Science to promote creativity,
scientific literacy, and innovation throughout Europe
Data standardisation and interoperability
Luigi Ceccaroni, Earthwatch
Final Symposium and MC Meeting 2020
September 3rd, 2020
Working group 5

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COST Action CA15212
Citizen Science to promote creativity,
scientific literacy, and innovation throughout Europe
▪ Total number of members
(active at some point during
the project): 47
▪ Gender distribution: not
analysed (but you can have an
idea looking at the picture)
▪ All output is open access.
WG5

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COST Action CA15212
Citizen Science to promote creativity,
scientific literacy, and innovation throughout Europe
▪ Task 1: Development of a metadata ontology for citizen
science
▪ Deliverable 1: Downloadable version of the ontology code
via Action website [https://cs-eu.net/news/wg-5-deliverable-
citizen-science-ontology]
▪ Lemmens, R., Falquet, G., Tsinaraki, C., Klan, F., Schade, S., Bastin, L., Piera, J., Antoniou, V.,
Trojan, J., Ostermann, F., & Ceccaroni, L. (in press). A Conceptual Model for Participants and
Activities in Citizen Science Projects. In: Vohland, K., Land, A., Ceccaroni, L., Lemmens, R., Perello,
J., Ponti, M., Samson, R., & Wagenknecht, K. (Eds.). (2020). The Science of Citizen Science.
Springer.
Synopsis of tasks, deliverables and outputs

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COST Action CA15212
Citizen Science to promote creativity,
scientific literacy, and innovation throughout Europe
The ontology
▪ This is just a
small fragment
of it, the one
dealing with the
representation
of participants.

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COST Action CA15212
Citizen Science to promote creativity,
scientific literacy, and innovation throughout Europe
▪ Task 2: Coordination of efforts
with existing networks and
groups working on
standardization in citizen
science
▪ Deliverable 2: Standardization
of the ontology as sensor web
enablement profile for CS by
OGC
Synopsis of tasks, deliverables and outputs

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COST Action CA15212
Citizen Science to promote creativity,
scientific literacy, and innovation throughout Europe
▪ Serbia + Italy + Netherlands + Czechia
Specific workshops
1
(2017)
1
(2018)
1
(2019)
1
(2020) 4

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COST Action CA15212
Citizen Science to promote creativity,
scientific literacy, and innovation throughout Europe
▪ Consolidation of current ontology version (concept
descriptions, formalisation, dissemination (e.g., EU-
Citizen.Science, GitHub))
▪ Work on ontology will be continued under ECSA Working
group ‘Data, Tools & Technology’.
▪ Application in use cases (e.g., MICS/Cos4Cloud projects)
▪ Publication of journal article
Finalisation of WG5’s work and life after COST

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COST Action CA15212
Citizen Science to promote creativity,
scientific literacy, and innovation throughout Europe
▪ Luigi Ceccaroni
lceccaroni@earthwatch.org.uk
Thanks to all people involved!