Documentation: CitSci Extension

Concept

While the vanilla STA is sufficient in many use-cases especially for Citizen Science Projects new requirements arise. E.g. information about the licensing of the data, or connection of different observations done via different modi (photo, measurement, observations) needs to be stored. To accommodate for these new requirements the existing STA is augmented (similar to the vanilla MultiDatastream Extension defined in the standard document) with new Entities.

Notes:

• To enable compatibility Entities of type CSDatastream and CSObservation are always implicitly also a normal Datastream or Observation. They can therefore also be queried by a vanilla STA client without knowledge about the CitSci Extension. Only if additional CitSci-specific data is needed (e.g. License) the client needs to be modified.

Architecture Diagram:

TODO

Current Status:

Progress can be tracked in the associated Project Board: here

Further information

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