Cos4Cloud Training & capacity building resources, developed and available as downloadable hands-on system and user guides, focussing on the services developed in the project framework
This area of the Cos4Cloud Toolbox and Evidence Hub shares targeted system and user guides designed and collated to help support the use of services developed in the Cos4Cloud framework to help to increase and improve the quantity and quality of citizen science observations. Read more about the thirteen technological services developed by Cos4Cloud.
These training resources share how they can be used and explore the opportunities each service provides. They are particularly targeted to the audience of each service and aime to support and build the capacity of existing and future citizen observatories users, participants, managers and developers. Each of the services' resources outlines similar questions:
The training and capacity building resources available for the Cos4Cloud services are summarised below. Read the description and click on the link to access each service guide:
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AI-GeoSpecies, © Inria, Pl@ntNet and Cos4Cloud |
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This is a system and user guide to AI-GeoSpecies: a service that uses artificial intelligence to predict which species users can observe in a particular area. |
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AI-Taxonomist, © Inria, Pl@ntNet and Cos4Cloud |
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This is a system and user guide to AI-Taxonomist: a service which enables citizen observatories, citizen science or other research projects to integrate customisable automatic identification tools and help users identify species from images. |
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AUTHENIX, © Secure Dimensions and Cos4Cloud |
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This is a system and user guide to AUTHENIX: an online authentication service that provides access to multiple protected citizen science platforms and services via a Single-Sign-On and facilitates General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance for apps and services. |
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Cos4Bio, © Bineo Consulting and Cos4Cloud |
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This is a system and user guide to Cos4Bio: a service that integrates biodiversity observations from multiple citizen observatories into one place. This provides easier access to large number of observations saving time while supporting the expert community in the species identification process. |
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Cos4Env, © Bineo Consulting and Cos4Cloud |
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This is a system and user guide to Cos4Env: a service that integrates environmental observations from multiple citizen observatories saving time by providing easier access to a wide environmental data in one place. |
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DUNS, © Bineo Consulting and Cos4Cloud |
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This is a system and user guide to DUNS: a centralised service which helps citizen observatories (COs) with observations on the Cos4Bio portal be aware of how their data is being used enabling them to reward user contributions. |
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FASTCAT Cloud, © DynAIkon and Cos4Cloud |
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This is a system and user guide to FASTCAT-Cloud: an AI-based service that helps with species identification by automatically filtering out unwanted pictures from camera traps. |
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FASTCAT-Edge, © DynAIkon and Cos4Cloud |
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This is a system and user guide to FASTCAT-Edge: a service that helps users build their own smart camera trap to record videos and pictures of wildlife activity which can be linked to a cloud-based service and help support identification of species names. |
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GBIF-DL, © Inria, Pl@ntNet and Cos4Cloud |
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This is a system and user guide to GBIF-DL: a service which provides support to train an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model to identify a particular group of species: facilitating the creation of training sets of groups of living organisms for machine learning applications. |
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MECODA, © Instituto de Ciencias del Mar ICM-CSIC and Cos4Cloud |
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This is a user guide to MECODA: an online service that provides a repository of tools that facilitate analysis and visualisation of citizen science data. |
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MOBIS, © DDQ Pocket Science and Cos4Cloud |
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This is a system and user guide to MOBIS: a service that provides integrative citizen science mobile applications through which users can report environmental and biodiversity observations using one Android or iOS App |
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Pl@ntNet-API, © Inria, Pl@ntNet and Cos4Cloud |
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This is a system and user guide for Pl@ntNet-API: an AI-based plant identification service that uses Pl@ntNet’s visual identification engine that can be used to improve the user experience in citizen observatories. |
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STAplus, © CREAF, Secure Dimensions, and Cos4Cloud |
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This is a system and user guide for STAplus: a service which helps to standardise citizen science data, making it accessible, interoperable, and reusable particularly amongst different citizen observatories |
These system and user guides are Cos4Cloud Training and Capacity Building Resources developed by The Open University, in collaboration with project partners, for the Cos4Cloud Toolbox and Evidence Hub. Contact: cos4cloud-toolbox@open.ac.uk
