AWIMAR

Adaptive Web Interfaces for MARine life reporting, sharing and consulting

The majority of widely-used citizen observatories mainly focus on reporting terrestrial organisms and lack interfaces designed for marine life observations.

ANERIS will develop adaptive web interfaces (including dedicated UX analysis) that make reporting, sharing, and consulting marine life observations easier, ultimately helping to build a larger community of volunteers for marine life monitoring.

Over the past three years, AWIMAR has evolved significantly. Key developments include the introduction of a marine iconographic taxonomy, an updated licensing model, GDPR-compliant terms of use and cookie policies, various visual enhancements, and numerous bug fixes. The platform now also integrates AI-based identification and IdP-based authentication, incorporates multiple security improvements, and has completed a full migration of its mapping system to Leaflet/OSM. Additionally, the integration of environmental variables into observations is currently in the prototype stage.