Citizen Science Ontology

Next Steps

• Rob: create table with overview on project metadata provided provided in different portals
• All: provide input on related work in paper
• All: Think about alterntives since COSIT deadline is approaching and we may not be able to finish in time (Deadline March 1st); maybe think about submitting a poster?
• NEXT TELCO: Feb 28th, 20:00 CET

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• General:
  • decide on tools (WebProtege?,yEd?)
  • discuss about potential co-authors/contributors

Objectives of the Ontology

• Common Understanding of Citizen Science and VGI
  • Find Commonalities in order to develop common database/XML schemas and application frameworks
• Discovery/Description of Citizen Science Projects
• Integrating/connecting data sets:
  • VGI/Crowdsourced Observations
  • Higher Level Information/Analysis Results
• (Formalization of Tasks)

Citizen Science Projects

• enviroCar
• SenseBox
• COST ENERGIC
• COST ENERGIC Knowledge Portal (has links to more CS projects..)
• CA15212 Citizen Science to promote creativity, scientific literacy, and innovation throughout Europe
• COBWEB

Related Ontologies/Vocabularies

• http://webprotege.stanford.edu/ (Search for ENERGIC): This is an unfinished ontology we initiated in the COST ENERGIC project.
• https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-ssn/ : W3C Semantic Sensor Networks Ontology
• Sensor Web for Citizen Science
  • http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7729937/?reload=true : IEEE Paper about general approach
  • https://github.com/opengeospatial/swe4citizenscience/blob/master/compiledER/er.pdf: Engineering Report at OGC
• OSM Semantic Network: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Semantic_Network
• Geonames
• ...

Paper structure

• Introduction/Motivation
  • Different Citizen Science Portals: Buergerschaffenwissen, Belgium, NL, US, ...
  • all are providing project metadata, but in different structures, with different concepts
  • GOAL: Identify subset of common concepts across the portals that is essential for describing the projects and integrating the project descriptions
• Background:
  • DCAT, Provo, ... (Jano)
  • Energic VGI (Rob)
  • SWE & Citizen Science (Christoph/Simon)
• Comparison of Concepts in different Portals (Rob)
• Core Concepts for Citizen Science Projects
  • description of the core concepts (yed graph)
  • OWL implementation
• Application Example
  • Cross-domain query: example searching for projects in air quality domain and finding enviroCar.
• Discussion
• Conclusions

Literature

• Haklay, M., 2013, Citizen Science and Volunteered Geographic Information – overview and typology of participation.
• Best Practice Guide for doing Citizen Science projects: http://buergerschaffenwissen.de/sites/default/files/assets/dokumente/handreichunga5_engl_web.pdf
• er.pdf: Citizen Science OGC Engineering Report

• Simonis, de Lathouwer, Taylor - 2016 - Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) for Citizen Science.pdf: Simonis Paper - SWE for Citizen Science