Work with data
Tools aimed at helping practitioners and communities turn data from low-cost sensors and wearables into FAIR and CARE information ā easy to access, combine and trust, and ready to support evidence-based policy.
Data tools
31 toolsTools developed within CitiObs to turn data collected by citizens into reliable, usable information. They help you organise and share data using open standards, check and correct its quality, and explore it on maps and charts, from single sensor readings to air quality maps of Europe.
STAplus standardSTAplus GDPR Profile
OGC 26-055 identifies personal data in STAplus and requires an Agreement before precise location, names, or attribution are released.
STAplus standardSTAplus Party Context
OGC 26-040 adds PartyLocation and PartyActivity so an observation can record where a party was and what they were doing.
Citizen Science with STAplusSTAplus Party Context plugin implementation
The STAplus Party Context plugin implements the STAplus Party Context Standard. The plugin can be deployed with the Fraunhofer FROST-Server framework which is the open source reference implementation for the OGC SensorThings API.
Citizen Science with STAplusSTAplus plugin implementation
The STAplus plugin implements the OGC STAplus 1.0 Standard. The plugin can be deployed with the Fraunhofer FROST-Server framework which is the open source reference implementation for the OGC SensorThings API.
STAplus standardSTAplus Techpaper
An informative paper on the STAplus corrigendum and the Party Context, DGGS, and GDPR Profile drafts, using two CitiObs deployments.- 5 links
Toolkit source repositories
The source repositories for the CitiObs practical guidance toolkits. They provide open documentation on environmental monitoring, inclusive participation, sustainable Citizen Observatories, participation dynamics and citizen-led action, allowing the guidance to remain accessible and reusable after the project. - 3 links
Tools for local communities
Practical data-analysis and visualisation tools designed to help Citizen Observatories work directly with their environmental data. The collection includes Jupyter notebooks, reusable data recipes, visual workflows with Orange Data Mining and TAPIS. The Data Recipes repository provides reusable analytical examples created by CitiObs and the wider community.