Somethingseen
Somethingseen is a concept and software platform designed to store, verify, and share user-submitted observations of visible phenomena. It emphasizes openness, interoperability, and reproducibility across communities and research disciplines.
It originated in the citizen-science community in the 2020s as a modular framework intended to lower barriers
At its core, somethingseen defines an Observation record with fields such as id, timestamp, geolocation, category,
Observations can be exported in common formats (JSON, CSV, GeoJSON) and integrated with other open-data ecosystems
Users include schools, museums, environmental groups, and researchers who document biodiversity, weather events, urban change, and
See also: citizen science, open data, crowd-sourcing platforms.