1. COBWEB Citizens living within Biospheres to collect environmental data FLAGIS Studiedag 'Crowdsourcing - laat het volk het werk doen!' Bart De Lathouwer Open Geospatial Consortium bdelathouwer@opengeospatial.org

2. Essential context - WNBR UNESCO Man and Biosphere Programmes (MAB) 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 610 reserves in 117 countries

3. The bare bones… Research project started Nov 2012 for 4 yrs Funded under the EC FP7 Crowdsourced environmental data to aid decision making Introduce quality measures and reduce uncertainty Fusion of crowdsourced data with reference data… Security Spatial Data Infrastructure - like initiatives –National SDI’s in UK, Greece and Germany –INSPIRE –GEOSS

4. Essential context - GEOSS COBWEB is obliged to work within GEOSS framework common methodologies and standards for data archiving, discovery and access Section on collaboration with GEOSS and FP7-ENV-2012 cluster projects added to project description “Data collected should be made available through the GEOSS without any restrictions” http://www.earthobservations.org/geoss.shtml

5. GEOSS http://www.earthobservations.org/geoss.shtml

6. COBWEB - Project Partners University of EdinburghUK (Scotland) University of NottinghamUK (England) Aberystwyth UniversityUK (Wales) Welsh Assembly GovernmentUK (Wales) Environment Systems LimitedUK (Wales) EcodyfiUK (Wales) Open Geospatial Consortium (Europe) LtdUK University College DublinIreland Technische Universitaet DresdenGermany Secure Dimensions GmbHGermany University of Western GreeceGreece OIKOM – Environmental Studies LtdGreece GeoCat BVNetherlands

7. FP7-ENV-2012 observatories NameLeadTopic CitclopsBarcelona Digital Centre Tecnològic (Spain) Coast and ocean optical monitoring WeSenseItUniversity of Sheffield (UK) Water Management CITI-SENSENilu (Norway)Air quality OmniscientisSpacebel (Belgium)Odour monitoring COBWEBUEDIN (UK)Various

8. Take away: Crowdsourcing –Quality measures and reduce uncertainty –Fusion of crowdsourced data with reference data –Sensor Web / IoT / WoT –Security –Use of Open Standards –SDI, INSPIRE & GEOSS –Economically sustainable –Society's ability to cope with change

9. Vragen? bart.de.lathouwer@opengeospatial.org chris.higgins@ed.ac.uk