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Ingo Simonis edited this page Jul 27, 2015 · 12 revisions

Welcome to the SWE-4-Citizen-Science wiki!

Using “the crowd” as a mean to collect observations within a certain area is currently explored in various fields. The European Commission funds a set of research and development projects, all flagged as “citizen observatories” projects. The goal of this repository is to provide best practices on data modeling and processing for citizen observatories. Those best practices shall help setting up and maintaining crowdsourcing systems in an effective way. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has developed a suite of standards, which, implemented and deployed, provides all functionality to cover almost all types of crowd sourcing projects. The standards used in those best practices are usually general purpose standards to describe, access, or process data. They usually provide more functionality than required for crowdsourcing campaigns. To simplify the selection process for crowdsourcing system developed and operators on which parts and which options shall be used, this repository is developed. If you want to see the full flow of arguments why we need best practices, please continue here. If you want to follow the stream and first understand which use cases we used to built all this, please check the use cases page. This page refers to the next reading section to allow you following a golden thread.