Dr. Stefano Martellos | COST Action CA15212

Personal Information

Title:

Dr.

First Name:

Stefano

Last Name:

Martellos

Institution:

University of Trieste

Piazzale Europa 1

34127 Trieste TS

Italy

Telephone:

+395583889 / +39 040 5583884

Area of Expertise:

Expert in Biodiversity Informatics, biodiversity data aggregation (data standards and protocols) and networking, digital identification (software tools and data), and their application in activities with schools. Coordinator of the LIFE+ project CSMON-LIFE (LIFE13 ENV/IT/842), which aims at raising the awareness on citizen sciecne in Italy. Lichenologist.

Year of completion of PhD:

2005

Gender:

Male

Working Groups

WG1: Ensure scientific quality of Citizen Science

This working group will focus on the outcomes of CS projects for scientists. The objective of this WG is to provide a sound understanding of current practices involving the collection, description, and validation of data gathered and analyzed by citizens.

WG2: Develop synergies with education

This group will focus on the learning outcomes of CS projects. The objective of this WG is to increase awareness about the possibilities of CS in education, by collating the knowledge of current practices and underscoring the meaning of CS in formal and informal education.

WG4: Enhance the role of CS for civil society

WG4 focuses on issues that are relevant to the volunteers in citizen science. The objectives of this working group are to raise awareness of the volunteers’ aims, needs and requirements from citizen science and the results that citizen science contributions have in their lives, as well as the implications for developing social innovation interventions. Due to the complexity and the importance of this WG there are several themes that currently we use to promote collaboration, exchange and share of knowledge within this COST action.

WG5: Improve data standardization and interoperability

This working group will focus on improving the technical foundations to foster the impact of CS globally. The objective of this WG is to develop metadata-concepts vocabulary and an ontology to support data sharing among CS projects. WG5 will coordinate with activities on data and service interoperability carried out in Europe, the USA and Australia, and will take into account existing standards, namely Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards, ISO/TC 211, W3C standards (semantic sensor network/Linked Data), and existing GEO/GEOSS semantic interoperability.