Participant: IAAC-Fab Lab Barcelona
Name: Smart Citizen Platform (SCP-IAAC)
Infrastructure: Smart Citizen Platform by Fab Lab Barcelona
Location: Barcelona, Spain.
2 modalities of virtual access have been proposed for the starting community in MINKE:
Virtual Access to cloud based services (Citizen Observatories) to develop new participatory projects of biodiversity monitoring.
VISIT WEBSITEParticipant: IAAC-Fab Lab Barcelona
Name: Smart Citizen Platform (SCP-IAAC)
Infrastructure: Smart Citizen Platform by Fab Lab Barcelona
Location: Barcelona, Spain.
Description: The virtual infrastructure consists of three main items: the Sensors Platform, the Sensors Knowledge Portal and the Sensors Data Framework.
The Sensors Platform is free for any user and publicly available. It consists of three main software components. All the components are released on an AGLP-3.0 open-source license and ready to be deployed on any standard cloud infrastructure.
The Sensor Knowledge Portal is a website that aims to materialise documentation or knowledge support supplied to users in different steps of their experimentation. It is available through participatory-tech.docs.minke.eu and it has the following components:
The Sensor Data Framework is a set of software tools for sensor data exploration, sensor model development, data visualization and programmatic data analysis. It is built using Python, a user-friendly, powerful programming language that can handle large amounts of data and is widely used in the data science community. The code is fully open-source and is hosted in a Github repository and pypi, through pypi.org/project/scdata/. This framework is connected to the Smart Citizen and several other APIs for data retrieval and can post data to zenodo.org and generate automatic reports in various formats for documentation and reproducibility.
Services Currently offered: Currently being offered self-service
MoA under this proposal: MoA1
Unit of Access: Pack
Access costs modality: VA-AC
Support offered under this proposal: Virtual support, which aims to ensure that there is clear guidance for users willing to make use of these technologies, as well as the necessary virtual infrastructure supporting sensor connectivity, data storage and analysis tools. Additionally, aims to ensure the reproducibility and usability of the low-cost instrumentation for a successful and meaningful deployment of sensors by giving access to online documentation and MOOCs (massive open online courses), which can serve as tools for knowledge transfer for users and communities. With this support, MINKE aims to help users deploy their solutions in a more reliable, reproducible way and to avoid potential technological barriers that might obstruct the experimentation.
Participant: CSIC
Name: Citizen Science Added Value Virtual Services (MINKA)
Infrastructure: MINKA, as an updated version of the Natusfera platform (Citizen Observatory)
Location: Natusfera is Citizen Observatory (e-infrastructure) supported cloud-based service. MINKA’s added-value services are provided through the team based in the CSIC’s Marine Research Institute in Barcelona, Spain.
Description: Inspired by the existing iNaturalist platform, one of the main goals of this citizen observatory is to facilitate the participation of any group interested in collaborating in biodiversity monitoring, regardless of the group’s size and its members’ capabilities. To do so, Natusfera’s development was conceived to break down three main potential barriers:
Services Currently offered: Possibility of creating self-managed projects with real-time data visualization, including the different observations and a summary of participation. It also allows customizable notifications (the project managers can receive email notifications each time the users report an observation of the species of interest).
MoA under this proposal: MoA1
Unit of Access: Project
Access costs modality: VA-AC
Support offered under this proposal: Creation of dedicated projects with specific objectives. This would be the core service of the VA, by facilitating the creation and management of different local projects to monitor the selected target species proposed in the VA, as well as engagement tools to promote participatory science in the area of interest.