LifeWatch ERIC Metadata Catalogue
LifeWatch Italy Citizen Science Platform
The LifeWatch Italy Citizen Science platform is a place for sharing knowledge, tools, training material and other resources for participatory projects in biodiversity and ecosystem research. It is a platform that facilitates citizens involvement in scientific activities and it includes different sections to provide:
- basic knowledge on citizen science, on its potential and applications;
- best practices and tutorials on the development and management of citizen science projects;
- a catalogue of citizen science projects with an open-source webGIS for viewing initiatives on a map-based interface;
- a tool for creating mini-sites for citizen science projects;
- a customisable web application supporting citizen science activities related to the collection of geo-referenced observations;
- integration between various components and services of LifeWatch Italy.
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Identification
- Date ( Publication )
- 2022-11-30
- Status
- Completed
- Version
- 1.0
- Keywords
- citizen science
- Keywords
- volunteer monitoring
- Keywords
- education
- Keywords
- training
- Keywords
- biodiversity
- Keywords
- environmental science
- Keywords
- open data
- Keywords
- web application
- Access constraints
- Copyright
- Use limitation
- LifeWatch Italy 2022
- OnLine resource
- Link to the platform ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
- Operation name
- How to plan a project
- Description
- It is a section dedicated to best practices and tutorials on the development and management of citizen-science projects.
- Function
- It shows the basic process steps for planning, designing and carrying out a citize-science project.
- Operation name
- Training room
- Description
- It is a section where to find the training material developed for existing citizen-science projects/initiatives.
- Function
- It aims at sharing the best practices and improve the knowledge in the topic.
- Operation name
- Catalogue
- Description
- It represents the catalogue of citizen-science projects, relevant activities, and initiatives in general with an open-source webGIS for viewing initiatives on a map-based interface.
- Function
- Each entry of the catalogue has been richly described and submitted by project leaders, activity participants and initiative drivers, with the purpose of aiding every interested person to find and participate in an interesting citizen-science adventure.
- Operation name
- Toolkit
- Description
- It allows to propose a new project, build the mini-site site and deploy a WebAPP to configure to collect all the citizen geo-referenced observations.
- Function
- A tool for creating customisable mini-sites and web applications supporting any citizen-science activity.
- Operation name
- FAQs
- Description
- It is a section where to find all Frequently Asked Questions related to the LifeWatch Italy Citizen Science Platform.
- Function
- Frequently Asked Questions.
- Service Category
- data processing
- Service Category
- data visualization
- Service Language
- eng
- Service TRL
- TRL 9 – Actual system proven in operational environment
- Service Funding
- The development of the LifeWatch Italy Citizen Science Platform has been funded by the project LIFEWATCHPLUS PIR01_00028 (CUP: B67E19000030007) in the framework of NOP Research and Innovation 2014-2020 under the action “Enhancement of Research Infrastructures”.
- Service Helpdesk
- https://helpdesk.lifewatchitaly.eu/
