Deliverables & Publications

This section includes all public deliverables prepared by the Cos4Cloud partners as part of the requirements of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 863463

Deliverables

4.5 Customizable Interface service for COS4CLOUD Apps (MOBIS)

Deliverable related to MOBIS service. 

4.6 Data Use Notification Service

Deliverable related to DUNS service. 

4.4 Platform for the interactive pre-processing of camera trap images

Deliverable related to FASTCAT-Cloud and FASTCAT-Edge services. 

4.3 Experts portal for environmental data validation

Deliverable related to Cos4Env portal. 

4.2 Experts portal for biodiversity data validation

Deliverable related to the service Cos4Bio

4.1 General purpose of the integration platform

Deliverable related to the service Cos4Bio

5.2 Co-design as a service: Methodological guide

This report results from the experience and lessons learned in co-designing the thirteen Cos4Cloud services.

6.5 Design and evaluation of school-based citizen science activities - Interim report

D6.5 reports on work conducted within WP6 and more specifically under Sub-Task 6.4.2 (Set-up and evaluation of innovative school-based citizen-science activities).

6.1 Identification of and Engagement with Projects of Interests - Report

The report identifies 78 citizen science (CS), citizen observatory (CO) projects, CO portals and other initiatives of interest (past, current and future) that may either contribute to or make use of the Cos4Cloud platform and services.

8.3 Project video

The objective of the deliverable D8.3, produced within the package WP8, is to present a comprehensive promotional video explaining the Cos4Cloud project in two minutes to a general public audience, it is also an invitation to be part of our community and participate in our activities.

D8.3 includes the project video script and the link to the video without subtitles, it also incorporates a small communication plan to promote the video and the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure its impact.

D8.4 Evaluation of Kownledge Transfer materials deployed in Cos4Cloud

This Knowledge Transfer Report describes and evaluate Knowledge Transfer activities undertaken by the Cos4Cloud project. 

Cos4Cloud’s methodology to develop and monitor its KT strategy was based on common practices implemented by the H2020 community and on requirements and recommendations from the funding agency, the European Commission.

Policy briefs

Citizen science to support progress of the SDGs and Cos4Cloud's contribution through its services and tools

This policy brief has been produced in the context of the Cos4Cloud project. It describes some of the capabilities and benefits of citizen science which can support progress towards the SDGs. These include increasing availability, analysis and exchange of data, and provision of opportunities for science education, increasing public engagement, and collaboration across society. It also explains how the EU-funded Horizon 2020 project Cos4Cloud has contributed to improving citizen science data quantity and quality. The document also highlights some case studies and recommends actions to promote and utilise citizen science as well as the integration of citizen science data in this context.

Zenodo

Sustainability of Cos4Cloud services for Citizen Observatories

This policy brief has been produced in the context of the Cos4Cloud project. It describes some of the challenges faced by the citizen observatories and how the services developed by Cos4Cloud have responded to this need while integrating citizen science infrastructures into the EOSC in a groundbreaking manner and contributing to the ambitions of the EU’s open science policy. The document also argues in favour of sustaining the services for COs and recommends actions for doing so.

Zenodo

EOSC - Cos4Cloud jointly publications

Delivering for EOSC – Key Exploitable Results of Horizon 2020 EOSC-related projects

This document describes the Key Exploitable Results (KERs) of the Horizon 2020 EOSC-related projects still active as of the spring of 2022, among them Cos4Cloud. The projects provided the information through a survey questionnaire that was developed in collaboration between the EOSC Association and the Research Data Alliance Association (RDA). 

Zenodo

Supporting cross-disciplinary research in natural sciences

EOSC in practice story

Zenodo

Supporting knowledge creation and sharing by building a standardised interconnected repository of biodiversity data: Cos4Bio

EOSC in practice story

Zenodo

Connecting researchers, developers and citizen scientists in a unique mobile app environment: MOBIS

EOSC in practice story

Zenodo

Towards an Interdisciplinary Citizen Science Interoperable Service in EOSC

Conference proceedings

EGI 2022 Conference

EU Research Results

Citizen science through Cos4Cloud

Informative article in a journal

EU research results magazine

Project of the Month: Improving the collection and management of data in citizen science

Informative article in the CORDIS EU Research Results blog

EU research results website

Co-design related publications

Sustainability of citizen science platforms

This presentation summarises the results obtained during the event ‘Co-designing solutions for the sustainability and governance of citizen observatories’ at the ECSA’s Conference 2022.

Zenodo

Co-design as a service: Methodological guide

This guide results from the experience and lessons learned in co-designing thirteen technological services within the Cos4Cloud project.

Zenodo

Engaging teachers in the co-design of educational scenarios aiming to integrate citizen observatories technologies into school-based environmental education

Workshop proceddings

EDULEARN22 Proceedings, 14th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, 10008-10016. IATED, ISBN 978-84-09-42484-9

Co-diseño de herramientas de ciencia ciudadana

Presentation – Co-design as a service (Spanish version)

Zenodo

Co-design of citizen science tools

Presentation – Co-design as a service

Zenodo

Educational training resources

Citizen Science & Environmental Education for Sustainability-Online training course: Module 1

Citizen Science: Basic concepts, approaches and practices

The first module of the Training Course attempts to define and delimit the field of Citizen Science (CS).
This is done by citing various definitions of CS, providing a historical review of events that determined its genesis and development to date and through the presentation of the different ways in which citizens are involved in CS practices, with reference to the factors that motivate them to participate in CS activities, a discussion on the benefits derived from disseminating and implementing CS, a summary of the basic principles guiding it and, finally, an initial attempt to examine its relationship with education.

Citizen Science & Environmental Education for Sustainability-Online training course: Module 2

From Citizen Science to Citizen Observatories. Supporting Environmental Protection in action

The second module of this learning programme seeks to connect Citizen Science (CS) with Citizen Observatories (CO) in the context of environmental protection, highlighting a central and key field of application of both. This is initially done by investigating the ways CS can serve as a tool in environmental protection. Later, the definition of COs is provided, and the main aspects and characteristics is analysed. Subsequently, the fields of application of COs and their relation to CS is examined. Finally, the most important COs in Europe are presented. Lastly, the necessity and value of monitoring biodiversity as one of the main fields of application of COs is analysed in the appendix.

Citizen Science & Environmental Education for Sustainability-Online training course: Module 3

The European Cos4Cloud project: approaching the challenge of Open Science from a Citizen Science perspective

The third module of the Training Course presents the European Cos4Cloud project within the context of which this training course is implemented. Specifically, an analysis is made of the concept of ‘’Open Science’’ as a philosophy and vehicle for democratizing and streamlining scientific research, focusing also on the place and role of Citizen Science (CS) in this effort.

Citizen Science and school curricula in the context of Environmnental Education/ Education for Sustainable Development: Module 4

Citizen Science & Environmental Education for Sustainability-Online training course

The fourth module of the Training Course examines the relationship between Citizen Science (CS) and education, focussing particularly on the possibilities of collaboration with Environmental Education (EE) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). 

Publications

Citizen Science and Environmental Oral History in Climate Education. Integrating the use of a citizen observatory for biodiversity monitoring into a climate change education project

Conference proceedings

Proceedings of ICERI-15th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation

Integrating Citizen Observatories into school environmental education for sustainability: Design and Evaluation of a case study engaging students with Pla@ntNet and OdourCollect

Conference proceedings

Proceedings of ICERI-15th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation

Integrating Citizen Science into Environmental Education for Sustainability. Design and implementation of an online training course to foster participation in building sustainable and just societies through school education

Conference proceedings

Proceedings of the 1st International Virtual Conference on “Innovative practices in teaching and learning for building a sustainable and just society”

With the Citizen Observatory of Pl@ntNet in the National Garden. Implementation and evaluation of an educational scenario in the context of a Citizen Science project and Environmental Education

Conference proceedings

Proceedings of the 7th Panhellenic Scientific Congress on “Integration and Use of ICT in the Educational Process”

Engaging teachers in the co-design of educational scenarios aiming to integrate citizen observatories technologies into school-based environmental education

Conference proceedings

Proceedings of EDULEARN – 14th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies

Designing a digital game on the biodiversity of the school garden in the context of utilizing educational activities concerning Environmental Science with the aid of Citizen's science digital tools

Master thesis UNIWA-NKUA

Polynoe

Best Practice for using SensorThings API with Citizen Science

OGC Best Practice

Open Geospatial Consortium

Pl@ntNet: Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence for biodiversity conservation

Article in a journal

IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine

Pl@ntNet: Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence for biodiversity conservation

Article in a journal

IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine

Motion vectors and deep neural networks for video camera traps

Article in a journal

Science Direct

Citizen science in environmental and ecological sciences

Article in a journal

Nature Reviews Methods Primers

How networks of citizen observatories can Increase the quality and quantity of citizen-science-generated data used to Monitor SDG Indicators

Article in a journal

Sustainability, MDPI

 

An iNaturalist-Pl@ntNet-workflow to identify plant-pollinator interactions–a case study of Isodontia mexicana

Pre-print

Pl@ntNet Crops: merging citizen science observations and structured survey data to improve crop recognition for agri-food-environment applications

Article in a journal

Environmental Research Letters

Very High Resolution Species Distribution Modeling Based on Remote Sensing Imagery: How to Capture Fine-Grained and Large-Scale Vegetation Ecology With Convolutional Neural Networks?

Article in a journal

Frontiers in plant science

LifeCLEF 2022 teaser: An evaluation of machine-learning based species identification and species distribution prediction

Conference proceedings

Advances in Information Retrieval: 44th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2022

Overview of lifeclef 2022: an evaluation of machine-learning based species identification and species distribution prediction

Conference proceedings

Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction: 13th International Conference of the CLEF Association

Motion vectors and deep neural networks for video camera traps

Article in a journal

ScienceDirect (Elsevier)

How Networks of Citizen Observatories Can Increase the Quality and Quantity of Citizen-Science-Generated Data Used to Monitor SDG Indicators

Article in a journal

MDPI Sustainability

Individual Tree Data Standard

Report

Forest Research

Practice-based insights from UK collaboration projects between a university and communities: ideas for school-based learning through citizen science

Workshop proceedings

Citizen science and basic education: how to develop a project with schools’ engagement in scientific research?, 11 Aug 2021, Online Workshop, STEM Education Hub (British Council and Kings College London)

Exploring citizen science learning journeys through iSpotnature.org: an online community of nature lovers

Conference proceedings

CitSci Virtual 2021, Citizen Science Association (CSA) Conference, 03-27 May 2021, Online (USA)

ICTs, data and vulnerable people: a guide for citizens

Technical Report at a Workshop

PANELFIT Project Workshop, Berlin, March 2020

Pl@ntNet-300K: a plant image dataset with high label ambiguity and a long-tailed distribution

Conference proceedings

NeurIPS 2021 – 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems

Overview of GeoLifeCLEF 2021: Predicting species distribution from 2 million remote sensing images

Workshop proceedings

CLEF 2021

Overview of PlantCLEF 2021: cross-domain plant identification

Workshop proceedings

CLEF 2021

Overview of LifeCLEF 2021: An Evaluation of Machine-Learning Based Species Identification and Species Distribution Prediction

Conference proceedings

CLEF 2021: Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction

Customized e-floras: How to develop your own project on the Pl@ntNet platform

Conference abstract

TDWG 2021: Biodiversity Information Science and Standards

Convolutional neural networks improve species distribution modelling by capturing the spatial structure of the environment

Article in a journal

PLOS Computational Biology

How do deep convolutional SDM trained on satellite images unravel vegetation Ecology?

Workshop proceedings

ICPR 2020 – International Conference on Pattern Recognition – workshops and challenges

LifeCLEF 2021 Teaser: Biodiversity Identification and Prediction Challenges

Conference proceedings

ECIR 2021: Advances in Information Retrieval

Mapping citizen science contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Sustainability Science

Article in a journal, open access

Citizen science is already contributing to 5 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) indicators, and it could contribute to 76 indicators, which, together, equates to around 33%, according to a recent study published on Sustainability Science.

Pl@ntNet Services, a Contribution to the Monitoring and Sharing of Information on the World Flora

Publication in a workshop

Biodiversity Information Science and Standards

Design and Development of Interoperable Cloud Sensor Services to Support Citizen Science Projects

Presentation at a conference

EGU General Assembly 2020

The Science of Citizen Sience

Book, open access

Get the open-access book ‘The Science of Citizen Science’, published by Springer Nature.The book covers the whole spectrum of citizen science theory and practice in Europe, and was the result of a collaboration of over 100 authors from 24 countries, including the Cos4Cloud coordinator, Jaume Piera, a researcher at the ICM-CSIC and associated researcher at CREAF, Luigi Ceccaroni, innovation and strategic manager at Earthwatch Europe and part of Cos4Cloud, who was also one of the book’s lead editors. Several other Cos4Cloud team members also contributed: Sasha Woods from Earthwatch Europe, Tim Woods from ECSA, Rosa Arias from Science for Change, and Maria Daskolia from NKUA.

How citizen scientists contribute to monitor protected areas thanks to automatic plant identification tools

Article in a journal, open access

Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ecological Society. Ecological Solutions and Evidence Journal.

Contribution citoyenne au suivi de la flore d'un parc national français, un exemple remarquable à l'échelle du Parc national des Cévennes.

Article in a journal

Published by Société botanique d’Occitanie (SBOcc). Journal: Carnets Botaniques

Citizen Science Monitoring for Sustainable Development Goal Indicator 6.3.2 in England and Zambia

Article in a journal

Published by MDPI. Sustainability – Special Issue “Citizen Science and the Role in Sustainable Development”.

LifeCLEF 2020 Teaser: Biodiversity Identification and Prediction Challenges.

Publication in a workshop

ECIR 2020 – 42nd European Conference on IR Research on Advances in Information Retrieval

Overview of LifeCLEF location-based species prediction task 2020 (GeoLifeCLEF)

Presentation at a conference

CLEF 2020 – 11th International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European Languages

Participation of LIRMM / Inria to the GeoLifeCLEF 2020 challenge

Presentation at a conference

CLEF 2020 – 11th International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European Languages

Overview of LifeCLEF 2020: A System-Oriented Evaluation of Automated Species Identification and Species Distribution Prediction

Conference proceedings

International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European Languages CLEF 2020: Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction

AI naturalists might hold the key to unlocking biodiversity data in social media imagery

Article in Journal

Patterns

Protecting small populations of rare species. Case study on dactylorhiza viridis (orchidaceae) in Fancott Woods and Meadows SSSI, Bedfordshire, UK

Article in Journal

Nature Conservation Research

EU-Citizen.Science: A Platform for Mainstreaming Citizen Science and Open Science in Europe

Article in a journal

Data Intelligence

Recommended readings

Recommended reading

The service will allow the aggregation of massive sets of image data related to large groups of species, using the API’s of several platforms and citizen observatories, in order to facilitate the learning of efficient AI models for automated identification.