Dr. Vyron Antoniou | COST Action CA15212

Personal Information

Title:

Dr.

First Name:

Vyron

Last Name:

Antoniou

Institution:

Hellenic Army Geographical Service

Evelpidon 4

11362 Athens

Greece

Telephone:

0032105789509

URL:

https://scholar.google.gr/citations

Area of Expertise:

Crowdsourcing and VGI for government and national mapping agencies. Participation patterns and gamification. Spatial data quality.

Year of completion of PhD:

2011

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.

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.