Telco 20. Ninth of the second phase of the IE

When: WED October 27th 2021 - 15:00-16:00 CEST

Where: GoToMeeting https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/321982654

Attendants

• Progress report on STA implementation
• Discussion about ER writing

Previous Action points

• Please provide contributions to the second phase of Engineering Report: https://github.com/opengeospatial/CitSciIE/tree/master/SecondPhase.

Agenda and minutes

• From April 2021 Cos4Cloud will sponsor the continuation of the CoP
  
  • Use cases for CitSciIE2 with STAplus: Pl@antnet, FASTCAT, MOBIS, Nat2STA
• OGC Members meeting
  • 119th Meeting - June 2021 (Europe) on June 15th
  • 120th Meeting - September 2021 (Asia) on September 16th, co-located with the Singapore Geospatial Festival
    • Citizen Science DWG session agenda: https://portal.ogc.org/services/srv_reserve_meeting_timeslot.php?m=86&t=3042&duration=Thu%2C+Sep+16th+2%3A00am
    • STAplus model presented at the OGC SensorThingsAPI SWG meeting
  • 121st Meeting - December 2021 (North America) registration is open
• Regular topics on these meetings
  • Progress on implementations of STAplus services and clients (Cos4Cloud)
    • Henning Bredel to demonstrate the 52North demo server: https://github.com/52North/sensorweb-server-sta/tree/feature/sta-plus/dao-citsci/docs
    • Andreas (SecureDimensions) has implemented the data cloud deployed by EGI, EOSC service provider: https://cos4cloud.secd.eu/staplus/v1.1/api (for Cos4Cloud project)
      • Joan has written the script to test exporting data from the Natusfera to the STAplus: https://github.com/joanma747/Natusfera4STAplus
        • Natusfera in JSON: https://natusfera.gbif.es/observations/313411.json
        • STAplus in JSON: https://cos4cloud.secd.eu/staplus/v1.1/Groups?$filter=name%20eq%20%27http://natusfera.gbif.es/observations/313411%27&$select=name,description,created,Observations,id&$expand=Observations($select=resultTime,result,phenomenonTime,parameters,FeatureOfInterest,Datastream;$expand=Datastream($select=Party,Sensor,Thing,License,ObservedProperty;$expand=Party($select=nickName),Sensor($select=name),Thing($select=name),License($select=name),ObservedProperty($select=name)),FeatureOfInterest($select=feature/geometry/coordinates))
      • Inria, one of the Cos4Cloud partners, has tested performance levels by exporting data (7 million records) from their Pl@ntNet to the STAplus, and will be testing to improve indexing in the database with Andreas: DB Performance | FROST-Server Documentation (fraunhoferiosb.github.io)
      • Next step will require semantic interoperability (e.g. RDF from W3C) between those different data models (e.g. Natusfera, Pl@ntNet) applied to the STAplus model using the entity 'Relation'. An RDF query language such as SPARQL can be used then. Relation may play a critical role to explain taxonomy used in the biodiversity domain model (e.g. GBIF, Darwin Core).
  • Review and progress on STA model (insert: STAplus model diagram with Group, License, Party, Project, Relation) to extend it to support "the citizen" (Party) and related instances in the dataStream

• Progress on the Definition Server: OGC platform to store vocabrary (linked to 'definition' in ObservedProperty)
• The coordinator of the CoPs (Uta Wehn) has issued a call for participation in a scientific paper that will summarize the lessons learnt in setting up the WeObserve CoPs .
  • It is not about the outputs of the CoPs , but about the process and benefits of having CoPs . Two ways of contribution: respond the survey or actively participate as co-author of the paper.
  • Wehn, U., Gharesifard, M., Ceccaroni, L., Joyce, H., Ajates, R., Wood, S., Bilbao, A., Parkinson, S., Gold, M., Wheatland, J., (2021) Impact Assessment of citizen science: state of the art and guiding principles for a consolidated approach, Sustainability Science .
  • Hager, G., Gold, M., Wehn, U., Ajates, R., See, L., Woods, M., Tsiakos, V., Maso, J., Fraisl, D., Moorthy, I., Domian, D., Fritz, S. (2021) Onto new horizons: learnings from the WeObserve project to strengthen awareness, acceptability and sustainability of Citizen Observatories in Europe, Journal of Science Communication, forthcoming.
• The second ER was collaboratively elaborated during the CoPs Foum #6, with the aim to conclude our second block of activities.
• TOC in https://github.com/opengeospatial/CitSciIE/tree/master/SecondPhase
  • 6. API proliferation
    • 6.1. iNaturalist APIs
    • 6.2. API Sensor Community
    • 6.3. API US Cit Sci repo
    • 6.4. GBIF API
    • 6.5. Why we need a common API
  • 7. STA and O&M experience
    • 7.1. Solutions and recommendations
    • 7.2. Status with STA and useful queries
    • 7.3. Possible extension for STA (i.e. STAplus model)
  • 8. STA servers
    • 8.1. STA 52North
    • 8.2. STA SecureDimensions (Frost implementation by Fraunhofer institute): deployed by EGI, DDQ, Pl@ntnet
  • 9. STA Clients
    • 9.1. STA Andy (Microsoft Library demo)
    • 9.2. STA MiraMon
    • 9.3. STA MOBIS (DDQ)
  • 10. Vocabularies

Other plans for the future

• To present progress on the STAplus in OGC SensorThingsAPI SWG in December 2021, with use cases (best practices) contributed to Cos4Cloud.
• To map and build a common data model in the STAplus which can be applicable to other platforms on the biodiversity domain (e.g. GBIF, Darwin Core).
  • To apply 'Relation' explaining taxonomic hierarchy (e.g. parent_id) for semantic interoperability (e.g. RDF)
• To discuss and explore the potential of exporting metadata (e.g. STAC, ISO, W3C DECAT) from various platforms into the STAplus once the common data model (template) is mapped.
• Other activities existing and harmonization: https://core.citizenscience.org/ will be done later.

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