Crowdsourced environment data gets a home on Louisville Data Commons | 2019

"...The “Louisville Data Commons” repository, announced by the University of Louisville on Tuesday, is an open-data website that will incorporate data contributions from residents and researchers to keep track of the city’s environmental and health-related measurements....

Eight such data sets are available today, including a community cleanliness index, pollen count, tree health and odor reports. Once validated, other data sets will are also to be posted to the site, including those on data-science projects, experiments about Louisville, sensor projects, air and water quality, weather, and non-profit groups....

A seven-member council will manage the site, which runs on CKAN, an open-source data-management platform. The first council includes Smith, Grace Simrall, the city’s chief of civic innovation and technology, along with students, academic researchers and other community stakeholders. ...

“The growth of citizen science and the excitement around low-cost sensors has highlighted the great need to have a place where information gathered by our community, in our community, about our community can be made available to our whole community and governed by our community,” Smith said in a press release."