scholarly journals Application of Modern Web Technologies to the Citizen Science Project BAYSICS on Climate Research and Science Communication

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 7748
Author(s):  
Anudari Batsaikhan ◽  
Stephan Hachinger ◽  
Wolfgang Kurtz ◽  
Helmut Heller ◽  
Anton Frank
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Science ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Participatory Sensing ◽  
Web Portal ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Climate Research ◽  
Citizen Science Project ◽  
The Web

Participatory sensing has become an important element in citizen science projects. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) such as web platforms and mobile phones can generate high-resolution data for science and progress assessment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (e.g., SDGs 11, 13, and 15). This paper gives an overview of web technologies in citizen science and illustrates how these technologies were applied in the citizen science project BAYSICS (Bavarian Citizen Science Information Platform for Climate Research and Science Communication) in Bavaria, in the south-eastern part of Germany. For the project, three digital platforms were developed: a website, web portal, and mobile application, each of which fulfills different tasks based on the project’s needs. The website informs visitors about the project structure, makes the project known to the community, and advertises the latest activities. The web portal is the main interface for citizens who want to join and actively participate in the project. The mobile application of the web portal was realized in the form of a progressive web application, which allows installation on a mobile phone and is connected with offline access to the content. The provision of an IT service for participatory sensing-based research which covers a development package, including a database, website/web application, and smartphone application, is further discussed.

A Citizen Science Web Portal for Interdisciplinary Research on Climate Change (BAYSICS): Development and Evaluation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anudari Batsaikhan ◽  
Jens Weismüller
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Test Phase ◽  
Observation Data ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Web Portal ◽  
Data Types ◽  
Climate Change Research ◽  
The Web

<p>Citizen science can be used to collect vast and timely data, while promoting active learning on selected topics. The Bavarian Citizen Science Portal for Climate Research and Science Communication (BAYSICS) is a scientific project which started in 2018 with 10 partner institutions in Bavaria. It aims to achieve (1) citizens’ participation in climate change research through innovative digital forms, (2) transfer of knowledge on the complexity of climate change and its local consequences, and (3) joint scientific and environmental education goals. </p><p>Within the BAYSICS project, a web portal has been developed that builds the interface between researchers and citizens. In the initial phase, the interests from the different research disciplines participating in the project were identified. Currently, the IT structure for the web portal is developed based on the needs of the project. Free tools such as PostgreSQL, Django, Gunicorn and Nginx are used. The researchers involved have the opportunity to integrate research topic specific questions and data collection guidelines for citizens. </p><p>On the web portal, users are able to choose a topic from four different areas (phenology, pollen, tree, and animals) and submit their observations in multiple data types (pictures, geolocations, and texts). The observation data is visualized on a map of the web portal. The data collected within the project is freely available for download on the web portal, while protecting user’s privacy. Application Programming Interface (API) is developed to enable interaction with other software products and services.</p><p>A first test phase within the project members start at the beginning of 2020. Afterwards, a second test phase is planned involving potential users (e.g. school students and teachers). The outcomes from the test phases will be used for evaluation.</p>

scholarly journals Citizens, Scientists, and Enablers: A Tripartite Model for Citizen Science Projects

Diversity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 309
Author(s):  
Rhian A. Salmon ◽  
Samuel Rammell ◽  
Myfanwy T. Emeny ◽  
Stephen Hartley
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Nature Of Science ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Tripartite Model ◽  
Science Project ◽  
Science Projects ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
Citizen Science Project

In this paper, we focus on different roles in citizen science projects, and their respective relationships. We propose a tripartite model that recognises not only citizens and scientists, but also an important third role, which we call the ‘enabler’. In doing so, we acknowledge that additional expertise and skillsets are often present in citizen science projects, but are frequently overlooked in associated literature. We interrogate this model by applying it to three case studies and explore how the success and sustainability of a citizen science project requires all roles to be acknowledged and interacting appropriately. In this era of ‘wicked problems’, the nature of science and science communication has become more complex. In order to address critical emerging issues, a greater number of stakeholders are engaging in multi-party partnerships and research is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary. Within this context, explicitly acknowledging the role and motivations of everyone involved can provide a framework for enhanced project transparency, delivery, evaluation and impact. By adapting our understanding of citizen science to better recognise the complexity of the organisational systems within which they operate, we propose an opportunity to strengthen the collaborative delivery of both valuable scientific research and public engagement.

scholarly journals Implementation of a Location Services Based Android Application and Accompanying Server Backend

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 310-317
Author(s):  
Kristijan Lukaček ◽  
Matija Mikac ◽  
Miroslav Horvatić
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Location Information ◽  
Android Application ◽  
Location Services ◽  
Textual Data ◽  
Android Operating System ◽  
The Web

This paper is focused on the usage of location services in mobile applications that were developed for the purpose of reporting different events that are based on their location. The event that is intended to be generic and universal can, as in examples used in this paper, be the reporting of some occurrence to a city’s communal affairs office. Such a generic event can include both multimedia and textual data, in addition to location information obtained using mobile device running the app. The software solution that is described in this paper consists of a mobile application that was developed for the Android operating system and a web application that includes a series of PHP scripts that run on a dedicated server. The web application consists of a backend scripts that facilitate the communication of a smart phone and the server and frontend related scripts used by users and administrators to access and check the data and process the reported events.

Co-Designing Mobile Applications for Data Collection in Citizen Science Projects – Challenges and Lessons Learned within the Nachtlicht-BüHNE Project

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Friederike Klan ◽  
Christopher C.M. Kyba ◽  
Nona Schulte-Römer ◽  
Helga U. Kuechly ◽  
Jürgen Oberst ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Smartphone Apps ◽  
Science Project ◽  
Science Projects ◽  
Citizen Science Project

<p>Data contributed by citizen scientists raise increasing interest in many areas of scientific research. Increasingly, projects rely on information technology such as mobile applications (apps) to facilitate data collection activities by lay people. When developing such smartphone apps, it is essential to account for both the requirements of the scientists interested in acquiring data and the needs of the citizen scientists contributing data. Citizens and participating scientists should therefore ideally work together during the conception, design and testing of mobile applications used in a citizen science project. This will benefit both sides, as both scientists and citizens can bring in their expectations, desires, knowledge, and commitment early on, thereby making better use of the potential of citizen science. Such processes of app co-design are highly transdisciplinary, and thus pose challenges in terms of the diversity of interests, skills, and background knowledge involved.</p><p>Our “Nachtlicht-BüHNE” citizen science project addresses these issues. Its major goal is the development of a co-design process enabling scientists and citizens to jointly develop citizen science projects based on smartphone apps. This includes (1) the conception and development of a mobile application for a specific scientific purpose, (2) the design, planning and organization of field campaigns using the mobile application, and (3) the evaluation of the approach. In Nachtlicht-BüHNE, the co-design approach is developed within the scope of two parallel pilot studies in the environmental and space sciences. Case study 1 deals with the problem of light pollution. Currently, little is known about how much different light source types contribute to emissions from Earth. Within the project, citizens and researchers will develop and use an app to capture information about all types of light sources visible from public streets. Case study 2 focuses on meteors. They are of great scientific interest because their pathways and traces of light can be used to derive dynamic and physical properties of comets and asteroids. Since the surveillance of the sky with cameras is usually incomplete, reports of fireball sightings are important. Within the project, citizens and scientists will create and use the first German-language app that allows reporting meteor sightings.</p><p>We will share our experiences on how researchers and communities of citizen scientists with backgrounds in the geosciences, space research, the social sciences, computer science and other disciplines work together in the Nachtlicht-BüHNE project to co-design mobile applications. We highlight challenges that arose and present different strategies for co-design that evolved within the project accounting for the specific needs and interests of the communities involved.</p>

scholarly journals Automated Pollution Detection System using IoT and AWS Cloud

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 3955-3960
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Application ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Detection System ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Traffic Monitoring ◽  
Traffic Lights ◽  
Pollution Detection ◽  
Smart Cars ◽  
Smart Traffic ◽  
The Web

Smart cities are one of the upcoming trends in the world. These smart cities include smart traffic light system, smart cars, smart homes, smart traffic monitoring system. As environmental pollution has become the major cause of various problems like climatic changes, improper irrigation methods, depletion of the ozone layer etc. “Automated Pollution Detection System using IoT and AWS Cloud” provides an architecture for integrating IoT and Cloud Computing and an application which is used to detect air pollution by fitting in arduino devices at public places like traffic lights, industrial areas, construction areas etc., and transferring the data using GSM modem to a cloud database server AWS RDS. The cloud server is linked with the EC2 instance (Ubuntu server) in order to publish the web application using EC2. Web Application which is created using Word press and a Mobile application using Android Studio. The Web application shows the value of pollutant at a particular place along with the map facility by using GPS in the Arduino. This is also linked to a mobile application which sends a push notification service (SNS) to our mobile application

scholarly journals Database of Historical Atlases: An Interactive Web Application

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Petra Jílková ◽  
Jiri Cajthaml
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Large Database ◽  
Web Portal ◽  
English Version ◽  
Additional Detail ◽  
Thematic Cartography ◽  
Library Catalogue ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
The Web

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Within the currently solved project of Czech Historical Atlas, an extensive analytic research of existing historical atlases was conducted with the aim of creating a large database of Czech (Czechoslovak) and foreign historical atlases released after 1950. During the analysis, the team collected information about more than 400 items. Beside the standard bibliographic description (title, author, country of origin, language, availability in the library, etc.), the database contains additional detail information on the content of the atlases, such as a chronological or spatial determination of the maps or applied methods of thematic cartography, that cannot be found in any library catalogue. The database is published as a complementary web application to Czech Historical Atlas web portal. Besides the large amount of collected information, the database of historical atlases in the form of an interactive web application provides a user-friendly visual analytic platform that enables the user to analyse information about historical atlases easily and effectively across fully interactive dashboards. The database can be used not only by academics in the field of historical and atlas cartography but also by broad public interested in this topic. The web application exists in Czech and English version to meet both, Czech and international public.</p>

From dragonflies to Facebook: digital disruption creates new opportunities for wetland science and conservation

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 261
Author(s):  
Jenny Davis
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Field Guide ◽  
Science Project ◽  
Wetland Species ◽  
Digital Disruption ◽  
Citizen Science Project

This paper describes a project that started with a proto-science communication project on wetland dragonfly biodiversity in 1998, stopped when a funding hurdle appeared in 2002, restarted with the development of an app in 2016, and culminated with the completion of a successful citizen science project in 2017. Digital disruption, in the form of an app to replace a field guide that was never printed due to lack of funds, and using digital media to facilitate a citizen science project, was the key to completing the initial project and collecting data on dragonflies (locally valued wetland species) that previously would have been difficult to achieve. The invitation to write this paper from a less formal perspective provided the opportunity to describe the unconventional progress of a project spanning 20 years, to acknowledge the contributions of family and friends, and to emphasise the new opportunities that digital tools, media and skills can provide for wetland science and biodiversity conservation.

scholarly journals A Web-Based Aggregate Information Portal

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 14-22
Author(s):  
Donatus I. Bayem ◽  
Henry O. Osuagwu ◽  
Chimezie F. Ugwu
Keyword(s):  
Programming Languages ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Relational Databases ◽  
Query Language ◽  
Web Portal ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Information Portal ◽  
Aggregate Information ◽  
The Web

A Web portal aggregates an array of information for a target audience and affords a variety of services including search engines, directories, news, e-mail, and chat rooms, and they have evolved to provide a customized gateway to Web information. Also, a high level of personalization and customization has been possible. The portal concept could further be established to function as a classy Web interface that can serves as sustenance for variety of the task performance. The aggregate information Web portal will serve as portals for the information needs of users on the web. The Web based portal enable marketing of users broadly across a wide variety of interests. Most of the popular usage of the Web based aggregate information portal probably refers to the visual and user interface (UI) design of a Web site. It is a crucial aspect since the visitor is often more impressed with looks of website and easy to use rather than about the technologies and techniques that are used behind the scenes, or the operating system that runs on the web server. In other words, it just does not matter what technologies that is involved in creating, when the site is hard to use and easy to forget. This paper explores the factors that must be painstaking during the design and development of a Web based aggregate information portal. Design as a word in the context of a Web application can mean many things. A working Web based aggregate information portal, kaseremulticoncept was developed to support the various users’ task performances. A number of technologies was studied and implemented in this research, which includes multi-tier architecture, server and client side scripting techniques and technologies such as PHP programming languages and relational databases such as MySQL, Structured Query language (SQL) and XAMPP Server.

scholarly journals Medflow Architecture for Online Medicine

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
pp. 62-65
Author(s):  
Akshay Gale ◽  
Mayur Waghmare ◽  
Aarti Ragella ◽  
Rohan Swashinkar ◽  
Vishal Sontakke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Specific Area ◽  
Web Portal ◽  
Drug Store ◽  
Online Payment ◽  
The Web

Applications like NETMEDS have a fundamental drawback that users don’t know from where the medicines are being delivered. It has been one of the most challenging part for several people to order medicine online. In day-to-day world, if we visit medical shop then we get the proper medicine i.e., fresh to consume and extracted from a trusted source. In the proposed system, we have created a web portal that will help the customer to order medicine and going to help the vendor for maintaining stock availability online. The prime focus was to order medicine from a trusted source online and to deliver the medicine from trusted source. A web portal is created to order medicine from trusted sources and from specific area. We are going to select the vendor by ourselves and we’re going to add the online payment portal, a map link and a discount section to buy medicine. This is going to be carried out using Java 7, Java Server faces J2EE, Bootstrap 4 and Tomcat 7 in order to make our portal interactive. The web portal is almost created, we are able to search for areas and input the medicine stock from vender’s side, the map link to the vender’s shop, online payment portal with a search and filter ability. The existing systems requests for the prescriptions and the source of the medicine stores and sellers are not provided. To stay away from such framework, we have created a web application that can connect the customers as well as the nearby vendors. As the clients trust on close by drug store owners, so we have proposed a structure where client will have the option to look through medication’s accessibility in close by shop. Additionally, they will have the option to check accessibility for prescriptions. As the seller will be realized client will be agreeable for requesting prescription. In addition to that, we are giving online payment portal.

Web-Based Synthesis of Robot Structures for Micro and Nano Manipulations

2009 ◽  
Vol 147-149 ◽  
pp. 25-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Chakarov ◽  
K. Kostadinov ◽  
D. Gotseva ◽  
T. Tiankov
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Optimal Solutions ◽  
Robot System ◽  
Web Based ◽  
System Synthesis ◽  
Kinematic Chains ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
The Web

This paper describes how the web technologies are utilized for a robot system synthesis. A web application is created for automation of the synthesis of closed structures for micro- and nano-applications, utilizing the advantages tense piezo-actuators and closed robot kinematical structures. The algorithm, integrated into the developed web based application, offers a synthesis of robot kinematic chains without extensive knowledge in this domain. The aim is to facilitate synthesis of such kind of kinematic chains from specialists who will generate optimal solutions for automation and robotisation of the requested micro- and nano-process.

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