COBWEB: Citizen Observatories Web Ecology meets the crowd - Crona Hodges
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Presentation given at the 33rd CEN (European Committee for Standardisation) Workshop, part of the Joint CEN/TC 287 and OGC Workshop which took place on 30th September 2013, Frascati, Italy. Find out more about the COBWEB Project at: http://cobwebproject.eu/dissemination/ access management,citizen observatory,cobweb,cobwebfp7,,european union,fp7,geoss,saml
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COBWEB: Citizen Observatories Web Ecology meets the crowd - Crona Hodges
- 1. COBWEB Citizen Observatories Web Ecology meets the crowd CIEEM Welsh Section Conference 21st February 2014 Crona Hodges Research Officer crh18@aber.ac.uk http://cobwebproject.eu/
- 2. Structure • Introduction to COBWEB • Crowdsourcing projects • COBWEB case studies • Important dates
- 3. In a nut shell… • Four year research project; month 16 of 48 • Funded under the European Commission‟s Framework Programme 7 (Grant No: 308513) • Crowdsource environmental data to aid decision making • Understand data quality issues and reduce uncertainty
- 6. What are we interested in? A number of demonstrator mobile phone applications Exactly what, deliberately left open and subject to discussion with stakeholders Three subject areas: 1. Validating earth observation products 2. Biological monitoring 3. Flooding
- 7. Other crowdsourcing projects • OPAL: get in touch with nature Bugs count: Download the Bugs Count App! – Browse ID tips, photos, facts, and submit your Species Quest observations direct from your mobile phone. – Generates valuable scientific data concerning the state of our environment.
- 8. Other crowdsourcing projects • iSpot: your place to share nature - Learn more about wildlife, share your interest with a friendly community and get help identifying what you have seen
- 9. Other crowdsourcing projects • Observations map • Filter by group, taxonomy, habitat, date or tag
- 10. Other crowdsourcing projects • BioBlitz: “…a frantic 24 hour science marathon to identify and catalogue as many varieties of living species as possible.”
- 11. Other crowdsourcing projects “Help us take nature's pulse by joining the big butterfly count” • Over 70,000 hits on the big butterfly count website in 2013 • Smartphone app downloaded 5,500 times for the 2013 survey.
- 12. Other crowdsourcing projects BTO Bird Track App • • • • • • • • • • • • • Works without a network/WiFi connection Add casual records Create complete and incomplete BirdTrack lists Use maps and GPS to get accurate location fixes Download the full British and Irish species list Sync all your existing BirdTrack sites Verify all sightings against the local BirdTrack thresholds Upload everything into your BirdTrack account View what species have been seen in your local area over 3, 7 or 14 days View local hotspots (~50 miles from device) over 3, 7 or 14 days View your year and life lists View species you still need this year and life Full help within the app
- 14. Other crowdsourcing projects • 590,000 people took part • 8.2 million birds counted
- 15. COBWEB case studies • Dyfi Woodland • Outward Bound • Bro Dyfi High School • AU MSc students • Tal y Bont „Floodies‟ • Fieldtrip GB
- 16. Fieldtrip GB – a bespoke data capture app to support field trips EDINA – University of Edinburgh http://fieldtripgb.blogs.edina.ac.uk/
- 17. What does it do? All the key features: Capture information Images Audio Text Location High quality background maps Saved maps for use “offline” Custom data collection forms Manual location correction It’s Free! http://fieldtripgb.blogs.edina.ac.uk/
- 19. Watch this space… • Month 16 of 48 – still some flexibility • November 2013: Milestone 2: – End of design and initial stakeholder engagement phase. Start implementing platform • November 2014: Milestone 3: – First Welsh demonstrator completed and ready for testing in the field crh18@aber.ac.uk @CobwebFP7
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- Concept of citizen science very relevant here and will come back to that a bit later on.
- Project partners from UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Greece and GermanyNB Welsh Government are Project Partners here and very much interested in the policy side of things and making sure COBWEB aligns with policy to achieve important and relevant outcomes in that respect.
- Work concentrated here in Wales in the Dyfi BR, four BRs in total will be studied.Germany: Wadden See and Hallig IslandsGreece: Mount Olympus & Gorge of SamariaLeft open possibility of expansion to further BRslater in project
- The stakeholder engagement side of it drives the user requirements for the software development side of things.Some of the key research questions are: 1. How can crowdsourced environmental data be used to improve decision making2. How can the quality of the data be improved to make it more useful?3. How can crowdsourced data be most effectively combined with existing sources of data
- OPAL (Open Air Laboratories) is a partnership led by Imperial College London; it’s a research and education programme about the natural environment. It is developing a wide range of local and national programmes to encourage people from all backgrounds to get back in touch with nature. The project also generates valuable scientific data concerning the state of our environment.By bringing scientists, amateur-experts, local interest groups and the public closer together, lasting relationships are being formed and environmental issues of local and global relevance are being explored.Bugs count…count how many bugs you see in 15 mins!
- Open University’s iSpot acts as an OPAL Partner. There is a Wales Regional Forum!Users can log in and input observations and learn tips on identifying species, share that knowledge with others, Latest observation on iSpot in the bogs and marshes category.NB hundreds of thousands of observations.
- Linked with iSpot. Bioblitzs all around the world.“The events brought together volunteer naturalists and the general public. The data was uploaded to iSpot so that the experts in the iSpot community could verify the identifications. The use of iSpot enables complete beginners to contribute to the scientific data collection as much as the enthusiasts. The data from iSpot was automatically transferred to iSpot Local where it can then be used for nature conservation and learning purposes.”11th May 2013 ay Aberystwyth Uni.
- Sign up. Download and print out the handy Butterfly Chart.Biggest survey of butterflies in the world. Choose a place and spot moths and butterflies for 15 minseg in a garden, a park or a wood.Over 70,000 people visited the big butterfly count website between April and August 2013 and the new Smartphone apps were downloaded 5,500 times. Fifteen percent of all counts in 2013 were submitted directly from participants’ phones using the new apps.
- BirdTrack is an exciting project, through a partnership between the BTO, the RSPB, Birdwatch Ireland, the Scottish Ornithologists' Club and the Welsh Ornithological Society, that looks at migration movements and distributions of birds throughout Britain and Ireland. BirdTrack provides facilities for observers to store and manage their own personal records as well as using these to support species conservation at local, regional, national and international scales.
- Just a plug for the Bird Track App looks like they need a bit more data for Wales!
- Results coming at the end of March…not long!590,000 people took part.Been going on since 1979!
- Stakeholder discussions have been had with for example, Outward Bound based near Aberdovey and Mach, the Tal y Bont ‘Floodies’, the High School heads and teachers in Machynlleth and the social enterprise ‘Dyfi Woodlands’ set up in 2010 - ‘helps people of all ages to develop a deeper understanding of the natural environment.’Initial case study work has been happening using open source app Fieldtrip GB.
- Getting people out and about using the apps, iterative step by step process with the stakeholders.Ultimately need to develop prototypes leading up to production of ‘Demonstrator’ apps near the end of this year.