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

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

Project Partners

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

COBWEB Biosphere Reserves

Biosffer Dyfi Biosphere

Mount Olympus

Gorge of Samaria

Wadden See & Hallig islands

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!

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

COBWEB Framework

OGC Web Services: • WPS: Web Processing Service • WFS: Web Feature Service • WMS: Web Map Service • SOS: Sensor Observation

Service

Next 2 years…7 Co-design sub-projects

Ysgol Bro Hyddgen

Penparcau Community

Forum

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