COBWEB

Full name

Citizen Observatory Web

Duration

November 2012 – October 2016

Project Links

Website: cobwebproject.eu
Twitter feed: twitter.com/cobwebfp7

Background

EDINA has multiple activities underway to help us understand the consequences of an ever changing technological environment for our customers. Reaping the benefits of the shift to mobile platforms is a high priority and in 2011 EDINA built a consortium and put a proposal into the EU's Framework Seven Programme. The result is the 4 year EDINA led COBWEB (Citizen Observatory Web) project.

Summary & Deliverables

COBWEB is a large project which brings together expertise from 13 partners (listed below) and 5 countries. We aim to create a testbed environment which will enable citizens living with UNESCO designated Biosphere Reserves to collect environmental data using mobile devices. Information of use for policy making will be generated by quality controlling the crowdsourced data and aggregation with Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) type reference data from public authorities. In the process we aim to build up our expertise in these new and developing technologies and understand how crowdsourcing/citizen science techniques combined with SDI may bring benefit to our customers.

Events

Partners

The University of Edinburgh (Co-ordinator)
The University of Nottingham
Aberystwyth University
Welsh Assembly Government
Environment Systems Limited
Partneriaeth Eco Dyffryn Dyfi/ Eco Valley Partnership
Open Geospatial Consortium (Europe) Limited
University College Dublin/ National University of Ireland, Dublin
Technische Universitaet Dresden
Secure Dimensions GmbH
University of Western Greece
OIKOM – Environmental Studies Ltd
GeoCat BV

EDINA Contacts

Chris Higgins

Funder

European Commission