EducaWood is a social web application for forestry education.
These are some of the features of EducaWood:
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Interactive map for visualizing world-wide trees
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Social creation of trees
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Different types of tree annotations (location, tree status, taxon, height, diameter, image, and observation)
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Multi-author tree annotations and deletions
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The application can run in any device with a modern browser
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Effective hiding of RDF/OWL/SPARQL
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Employs the Simple Tree Annotation ontology (STA)
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Powered by CRAFTS (Configurable REST APIs For Triple Stores)
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Available in English and Spanish
EducaWood is a web application developed in Javascript. You can easily deploy it in your web server, but you need to set up your own CRAFTS API to access data sources.
Alternatively, you can just try a live version of EducaWood on https://educawood.gsic.uva.es/
EducaWood uses Linked Open Data from the Spanish National Forestry Inventory, Wikidata and DBpedia.
Tree annotations are published in a triplestore with endpoint URL https://semanticforest.gsic.uva.es/sparql and graph IRI http://educawood.gsic.uva.es.
We have run a pilot of EducaWood at the Yutera campus of Universidad de Valladolid in a "Reforestation, Nurseries, and Gardening" course in the third year of the Forestry and Environmental Engineering degree. Students have collaboratively created a tree inventory with EducaWood, it can be accessed here. Students were asked to fill the standardized System Usability Score (SUS). The SUS scores can be accessed here.
EducaWood is available under an Apache 2.0 license. Please send us an email to guiveg@tel.uva.es if you use or plan to use EducaWood. Drop us also a message if you have comments or suggestions for improvement.
If you have already employed EducaWood you can help ups to improve by filling this questionnaire (also available in Spanish).
Some screenshots of EducaWood (somewhat old, the user interface is cooler now):
