SPOTTERON

The national organisation Science et Cité is a charitable swiss foundation. It promotes dialog between Science and Society through low-threshold and innovative projects. It advocates appreciation and understanding of all sciences and makes their opportunities and limits a subject of discussion. Further it encourages feedback of the civil society to sciences. Science et Cité is not a grant-making foundation, but is operational itself. The funding is provided by service agreements and project partnerships. The foundation is based in Bern, Switzerland, and has regional branches in the swiss romandie and Ticino.

As a scientist, collaborating with SPOTTERON to create our Citizen Science App ‘Fågelbär’ was the right choice. We could focus on what type of data we want to collect and the team at SPOTTERON designed, built and are now running the App!

Boost a specific spots activity by setting it to "featured" in the data administration interface. By making it a top spot, a star pops up next to its map marker. That way, you can let your users know that this data is particularly useful.

In the administration interface, you can export all data collected so far and/or filtered datasets in CSV format and real-time. This way, you can access and use the current data anytime

You can diretly contact cartain or all users via eMail. This way you can ask further questions about an observation, thank for very useful observations, etc. 

In case this is necessary or helpful, you can also put observations that are no longer needed for some reason in the trash.

Another feature of the data administration interface: you can publish or unpublish observations in real-time.

In the data administration interface, you can also find a list of all user comments. This makes it easier for you to track current discussions under observations and add insight from a project admin if necessary. 

If you only want to export the data of a particular category or attribute, you can have the data filtered in the data administration interface and then download this desired data.

In the data administration interface, you can easily edit an observation. So in case, someone was unsure about something or accidentally misspelt something or other situations like that, you can fix it very quickly.