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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> GeoForAll-GeoCrowd <geoforall-geocrowd-bounces@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of valantis.tsiakos@iccs.gr <valantis.tsiakos@iccs.gr><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 13 May 2020 09:06<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [GeoForAll-GeoCrowd] Hackathon_citizen-science_challenges</font>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Dear colleagues, </span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">In the context of the Dubrovnik INSPIRE Hackathon, 3 challenges related to citizen-science and environmental monitoring are taking place and involve the following themes:</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"></span></p>
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<u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Improve interoperability between methods for sharing in-situ and citizen-sourced data</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"> // The focus lies on the use of <a href="https://www.ogc.org/standards/sensorthings" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">SensorThings
API</span></a> standard as well as on developing and testing tools to provide combined visualization of data coming from different sources. This involves also sharing of environmental measurements coming from different IoT devices and in-situ monitoring sensor
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<u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Integrating INSPIRE with Citizen Science and EO authentication systems</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"> // The focus lies on improving accessibility to protected resources
while also enabling their direct consumption and utilisation by third party applications.
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<u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Establish the connection of Citizen Observatories resources with central catalogue</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">// The challenge attempts to implement harvesters that
will enable ingestion of metadata of citizen science resources to a centralised catalogue and eventually to GEOSS.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">The hackathon is virtual and involves participants from all over the globe! </span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Further details can be found here:
<a href="https://www.weobserve.eu/marketplace/dubrovnik-inspire-hackathon-2020-citizen-science-and-earth-observation-challenges/">
https://www.weobserve.eu/marketplace/dubrovnik-inspire-hackathon-2020-citizen-science-and-earth-observation-challenges/</a>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Feel free to register, join the teams and contribute!</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">With best regards,</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Valantis </span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="">Valantis Tsiakos</span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="">GeoInformatics Engineer, Scientific Project Manager <span style="color:black">
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