Natusfera Lifewatch Competence Center EGI amsterdam 2016 small

Citizen Science

Francisco PandoReal Jardín Botánico – CSIC (Spain)

Competence Center

Summary• The conceptual framework

– the question– the data– the role of citizen science– CC as solution provider

• Current strategy and developments– Natusfera– Caffe– Cinda

• Future action lines

The question

Martin Sharman, European Commission

The questionCimate change and biodiversity crisis

"Countries can not make decisions about the major environmental problems that affect us, both those related to climate as the natural capital itself without the essential support of the best scientific knowledge available“

Ana Luisa Guzmán, Ejecutive Secretary, CONABIO, México

Fires, erosion, coccolithophores and CO2

models & predictions

http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/distribution-of-animal-species-1/assessment

• Powered by ICT developments

• ubiquitous• As good as the data put in

The best data for the best answers• Biodiversity data suitable for analysis

offers a tremendous increase in data available!

Citizen Science is not new

A directory of nature oriented associations in the region of Madrid (Spain)http://www.madrid.org/cs/Satellite?cid=1142330062399&pagename=PortalJoven/Page/JUVE_contenidoFinal

…

Legal consideration is there

CC as solution provider

Linking, filling gaps, integrating

• Science & Society• Interest & Policy (Society & Administrations)• Content & Tools

• Knowledge > prediction > decisions•Invasive species,

roadkills, endangered species

• From data to services

Natusfera

http://natusfera.gbif.es/

Why branching out from iNaturalist?(lessons learnt or to be learnt)

• Localisation: different languages• “Projects of projects”, greater flexibility and

control for users (thinking of communities rather than individuals)

• Customized data publication avenues for users (instead of a monolithic approach)

• iNaturalist subscription model was problematic to accept and to maintain

Data publication, data integration

http://www.gbif.org/dataset/50c9509d-22c7-4a22-a47d-8c48425ef4a7

CINDA• Repository

framework + mobile application

• Applicable to multiple purposes (not just biodiversity)

Species identification

The Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI). Zaragoza. Spain

The challenges

• “if we build it, they will come” <-NO– usable, useful, used

• How to get faster innovation that spreads beyond people doing the innovation

• Integration– open data– connecting repositories– standardization (OGC, TDWG)– Metadata

Future action lines

– Linking CS Biodiversity observation platform(s) and species identification based on automatic image analysts

– Linking biodiversity and environmental observations and information

Linking CS Biodiversity observation platform(s) and species identification based on automatic image analysis

Observer/SC gets species IDInstant satisfaction

Species distribution DB gets IDDB quality

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73.336116 W

Linking biodiversity and environmental observations and information

• shared infrastructure• shared standards• open data• linked data

• species occurence data

• environmental data

• Simultaneous recording of biodiversity and environmental conditions

• Improved models > improved predictions > improved decisions

• Autonomous data acquisition Integration • Unified access

As a way of conclusion• Integration has to go beyond ICT:– ICT- Biology– Science – Society– …

• Tension projects vs infrastructures• ·”So much to do so little time”• Appreciate the opportunity: ICT is changing the

way biodiversity is studied, conserved and managed…

… still struggling to get the right incentives in place (cultural change)

Argema mittrei

Francisco Pando Real Jardín Botánico - CSIC

Claudio Moyano 1, 28014 Madrid, [email protected]

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