Category: data collection

Published: Citizen science and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

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Back in October 2018, I reported on the workshop at the International Institute for Advanced Systems Analysis (IIASA) about non-traditional data approaches and the Sustainable Development Goals. The outcome of this workshop has now been published in Nature Sustainability. The writing process was coordinated by Dr Linda See of IIASA, and with a distributed process that included … Continue reading Published: Citizen science and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

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citizen science, data collection, Environmental information, Papers, Research projects, SDG, Sustainable development, VGI, Volunteered Geographic Information

Esri survey123 tool – rapid prototyping geographical citizen science tool

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There are several applications that allow creating forms rapidly – such as Open Data Kit (ODK) or EpiCollect. Now, there is another offering from Esri, in the form of Survey123 app – which is explained in the video below. Survey123 is integrated into ArcGIS Online, so you need an ArcGIS account to use it (you … Continue reading Esri survey123 tool – rapid prototyping geographical citizen science tool

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arcgis, ArcGIS Online, citizen science, Crowdsourcing, data collection, Data Management, esri, GIS, GIS Usability, PGIS, PPGIS, Survey123, Usability, VGI, Volunteered Geographic Information

COST Energic Summer School on VGI and Citizen Science in Malta

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COST Energic organised a second summer school that is dedicated to Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and citizen science. This time, the school was run by the Institute for Climate Change & Sustainable Development of the University of Malta. with almost 40 participants from across Europe and beyond (Brazil, New Zealand), and, of course, participants from … Continue reading COST Energic Summer School on VGI and Citizen Science in Malta

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citizen science, COST ENERGIC, COST IC1203, data collection, DIY electronics, GIS, Malta, OpenStreetMap, Participatory Sensing, PPGIS, Summer school, University of Malta, VGI, Volunteered Geographic Information

Citizen Science 2015 (second day)

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After a very full first day, the second day opened with a breakfast that provided opportunity to meet the board of the Citizen Science Association (CSA), and to have a nice way to talk with people who got up early (starting at 7am) for another full day of citizen science. Around the breakfast tables, new […]

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citizen science, citizen science association, community, Conference, CSA, data collection, Extreme Citizen Science, H.O.T, H.O.T Task Manager, ODK, OpenStreetMap, OSM, social media, VGI

nQuire-it/Sense-it – discovering sensors in your phone

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The Open University, with support from Nominet Trust and UTC Sheffield have launched  the nQuire-it.org website, which seem to have a great potential for running citizen science activities. The nQuire platform allows participants to create science inquiry ‘missions’. It is accompanied by an Android app called Sense-it that exposed all the sensors that are integrated in a smartphone and let […]

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citizen science, data collection, Misc, nQuire-it, Phone sensors, Sense-it, Usability, VGI