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

Observatory web

15/01/14

Jamie Williams

jamie.williams@envsys.co.uk

• 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

The COBWEB project

The COBWEB project

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?

Sensors in the environment

The crowd

Validated Quality approved Compliant Data client

Authoritative data

- Commercial- Government- Community

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:

1. Validating Earth

observation;

2. Biological monitoring;

3. Flooding.

Engagement

Reaching the citizen

• Face to face engagements, co-design and co-

production;

• Using volunteer projects, interest groups, local issues.

Feedback loop

• Stakeholder engagement drives the user requirements.

Validated Quality approved Compliant

Stakeholder example - Dyfi woodland

CoedTŷ

Gwyn

Education

Wildlife

ProductsHealth and Well Being

Recreation

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

Prototype visualisation

Prototype visualisation

Stakeholder – Aberystwyth University

• Geolocation;

• Dichotomous key;

• Photo catalogue;

• Description of observation to be stored.

Stakeholder – Aberystwyth University

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.