AIP-7 Plenary COBWEB Project Results Demonstration Chris Higgins, EDINA, University of Edinburgh, COBWEB Project Coordinator, 12 th November,

Citizen Observatory Web - COBWEB Funded under the European Commission’s Framework Programme 7 Project started 1 st Nov, 2012 and runs for 4 yrs Crowdsourced environmental data to aid decision making Introduce quality measures and reduce uncertainty Fusion of crowdsourced data with reference data… Spatial Data Infrastructure - like initiatives –National SDI’s in UK, Greece and Germany –INSPIRE –GEOSS

Where we are in the project… Month 25 of 48 November 2014: Milestone 3: –First Welsh demonstrator completed and ready for testing in the field –COBWEB Platform Release - Intermediate Version 2015: –Validation and field testing of our concept –7 Citizen Groups lined up in UNESCO designated Biosphere Reserve in Wales to assist with testing and participate in co-design

COBWEB Platform

Relevance to GEOSS Data will be available via OGC Web Services Discoverable via CSW –COBWEB version of GeoNetwork Authentication and Single Sign On being achieved via an Access Management Federation –Piloted in AIP-6 –Core component of COBWEB platform –Will be built on in the future Play Pete’s video!