Citizen Science is an approach to science that uses the general public in conducting
scientific studies about a phenomenon or an occurrence in nature. Citizen Science makes …

To tackle with global environmental problems, collaboration among experts in all kinds of
research fields is essential. Sustainability science and environmental studies which aim to …

The number of citizen science projects is constantly growing. Local, national, and
international platforms feature new projects almost every month, resulting in an endless …

Research in the ecological and environmental sciences increasingly relies on the
integration of traditionally small, focused studies to form larger datasets for synthetic …

One of the major challenges facing ecologists today is the problem of obtaining sufficient
amounts of information pertaining to widespread ecological phenomena. While the physical …

Successful data integration requires careful examination of data semantics, a task that has
often been approached with the use of ontologies. However, there are some barriers to build …

The overall objective of this paper is to describe the development of methodologies and to
present an implementation for supporting researchers in the domains of sustainability. The …

Earth observation (EO) systems play a significant role in environmental monitoring and the
prediction of natural disasters. These systems generate a massive amount of heterogeneous …

This work presents an ongoing effort to develop simple ontological design patterns for
describing scientific variables with a high level of specificity in resource description format …

Ontologies are being widely used across many scientific fields, most notably in roles related
to acquiring, preparing, integrating and managing data resources. Data acquisition and …