Waarneming.nl Observado.org an example of a unified data framework Martijn de Jong & Hugo Nieuwenhuys Stichting Natuurinformatie / Nature Information Foundation

About us Our mission is to encourage and enable citizens of the world and their organizations to record their nature observations in a publicly accessible and easy to use system, that we will update, maintain and keep safe for current and future generations. Start jun 2004: strong growth Focus on enabling the user, make it easy, make it fun All species: birds, butterflies, dragonflies, mammals, plants, lichens Unique visitors / month, registered users 1 Million new observations every 3 months Supported by Dutch National Authority for Nature Data and Belgium Birdlife Partners Ω

Observations / year in NL (2010: 3.4 million) <= TOTAL

Partners All Dutch nature organizations (including SOVON, BirdLife Netherlands, Butterfly Conservation Netherlands) Gegevensautoriteit Natuur (Dutch National Authority for Nature Data) Natuurpunt Vlaanderen = BirdLife Belgium, Flanders Natagora = BirdLife Belgium, Walloon Region Over 200 local organizations in The Netherlands, Belgium, France and other parts of Europe

Quality control Over 70 expert volunteers check the observations, users are participating through online forum Feedback is important ! Since 2008: participating in National Quality Assurance Committee, realizing a nationwide quality control through expert volunteers Digital camera and easily accessible sound recording equipment (mobile phones and PDA’s) make a huge difference. For example, you can prove a Gray-faced Woodpecker Picus canus on a birdfeeder

Mobile applications Significant market share, growing fast Lots of GPS-enabled devices Development tools are good and cheap Observations coming in through mobile devices is 20% and rapidly rising

Windows Mobile App

Download at Available in English, Dutch, French and German Works worldwide (Observado.org)

HTML5 Web App

Platform independentWorks offlineLimitation: no offline maps

Android and iPhone Both 5x the pageviews of Windows Mobile but only 5% of the mobile input Native applications in development Smoother, more responsive user interface Offline maps, direct photo sharing Promotion trough App Stores

Layar Augmented Reality

Future (this year) New integrated platform with national and international partners More professional functionality One scalable worldwide system Comprehensive API for connecting third party mobile applications and websites More and better mobile tools for all major platforms

International Our mission is to encourage and enable citizens of the world and their organizations to record their nature observations in a publicly accessible and easy to use system, that we will update, maintain and keep safe for current and future generations. Already support from all relevant Dutch and Belgium Nature organizations, local partners in Morocco, Ecuador, Luxembourg and Portugal. U.K. Is welcome to join !