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 **Combining the ancient skills of foragers with the newest mobile media.**\\
-A mobile phone guide to edible urban wild-food sources. Created in first instance for Amsterdam [[urban_edibles]] as an [[http://www.ushahidi.com/|Ushahidi]] based app for Android phones. **First test version available here:** [[http://vdmark.info/ushahidi/BoskoiAndroid.apk|Boskoi]]\\
+A mobile phone guide to edible urban wild-food sources. Created in first instance for Amsterdam [[urban_edibles]] as an [[http://www.ushahidi.com/|Ushahidi]] based app for Android phones.
+  * **First test version available here:** [[http://www.boskoi.org/|Boskoi]] and [[boskoi|here]]
+  * development hosted at http://code.google.com/p/boskoiandroid/
 We have chosen [[grazing_hermits|Boskoi]] as a name for the mobile app because it translates as 'grazer' or 'browser' from the Greek 'βοσκοί'.\\
+In future we aim at Boskoi versions for several platforms.\\
+== The urban jungle ==
+There is a worldwide trend of urbanization where since 2008 for the first time in history more than half of the worlds population lives in cities. What may be less evident is that this is not limited to humans. Many species find themselves living within or moving into urban areas. In the Netherlands the countryside is dominated by industrial agriculture this means the level of biodiversity in a city like Amsterdam is significantly higher than it is in rural areas. In public perception however it is still the countryside that is associated with an experience of nature. So what would happen if the richness of urban wildlife could be made manifest for citizens.
+== The edible landscape ==
+FoAM is working on creating new networks between humans and non-human city-dwellers. One such tool is Boskoi. In this pilot project we focus specifically on edible species and even medicinal plants and herbs that grow in public space. Working closely with urban-biologists, botanists, cooks, nerds and enthusiastic citizens Boskoi brings the ancient skills and knowledge of foragers to a contemporary platform. Foraging expeditions are organized and meals are prepared by many people in many different cities. This project makes several key issues relevant to people; it generates great interest in what actually lives with us in city landscapes, consuming its fruits makes the health of the ecosystem a mayor concern and it makes the level of dependance on corporate food-systems and the narrowness of the range of edibles within them tangible.
+== The green river ==
+Mapping the edible urban landscape is updating our view of the city. We can identify it's green arteries and make visible an unseen infrastructure that is vital to the health of its inhabitants. People improve their knowledge of taxonomy, food-preparation, species behavior and get connected to their green surroundings and the rhythm of seasons. New insights and practices are emerging; foraging as a way to constrain invasive species, urban hunting and fishing, the collection of ethnobotanic and ethnoculinary knowledge. Boskoi brings together on one hand; biologists, botanists and gardeners introducing them to opportunities that we think mobile technologies offer to science and on the other hand tech-nerds and youngsters to connect them trough digital media that they live with to the perhaps unknown world of the living environment.\\
+This pilot project and the new insights it generates are the basis of our continuing investigation of the field of augmented ecology.
+=== Tool: ===
 Functionalities (being implemented):
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   * Enabling anyone (with gps on mobile) to upload new entries to the database.
   * Providing links to expert knowledge (botanical, herbal, culinary, ecological)
-  * Report 'bad link'; if plant/source is no longer there.
+  * Verifying plant status.
+  * Open to mail, sms, twitter.
+  * Offering alerts to new additions in your area.
 Possible extras:
   * Offering harvesting alerts.
-  * Report waste dumping (separate waste-map?)
+  * Join local foragers and events.
-  * Mushroom determination.
+  * Providing a route to a recipe.
-  * Join local foragers.
+  * supporting standard format see: [[foragemarkuplanguage]]
-  * Apply to become an editor.
-  * Add protected or endangered species without revealing exact location.
-  * Adopt a stressed wild plant (using companion planting?)
-  * Join local adoption group (game with points awarded?)
-Some [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157623023703044/|screenshots]] of the first demo.
-{{http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2735/4194271189_94ebe3b04b_m_d.jpg}}
+=== Reviews / Interludes ===
+  * http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-08/25/augmented-foraging
+  * http://www.mobilebehavior.com/2010/08/25/mobile-crowdsourcing-boskoi-informs-foragers-about-wild-food-sources/
+  * http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2010/08/augmented-reality-augmented-foraging/
-**We hope this pilot can perhaps sprout other ecosytem-apps.**
+=== Somewhat related texts...===
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+  * "Urban foraging: 'It's day two and I'm going to die'. Is it possible to feed yourself for a week simply with food you find growing wild" http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/dec/06/foraging-in-london
-=== App. architecture: ===
+=== Somewhat related apps: ===
-== content: ==
+  * http://forage.rs
-  * Are new entries checked by an editor?
+  * NOAH: http://www.networkedorganisms.com/
-  * Are new entries first on a preliminary map?
+  * http://m.waarneming.nl/index.php
-  * Can we simply copy-paste content? For instance: is there a standard dataset for hazelnuts that does not have to be updated later? So if a new recipe is found for hazelnuts, we don't have to add it to all entries individually? > A standard link should probably go to a page of recipes. And on this page you can add recipes at any time.
+  * http://wildplukwijzer.nl/?p=85 - Windows mobile app
-  * Can bio-students do plant-determination as editors?
+  * [[http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/leafsnap/id430649829?mt=8|Leafsnap]] plant identification
-  * If the user identifies the plant and names the new entry, can the dataset for that plant be added automatically?
+  * [[http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wild-edibles-full/id431504588?mt=8&ls=1|Edible plant guide]]
+  * http://www.forestry.gov.uk/mobileapp
+=== Foraging Maps: ===
-Example of dataset:
+  * http://wildplukwijzer.nl/?page_id=2
-<blockquote>
+  * http://www.mundraub.org/
-E:Wild apple tree.\\
+  * http://hackneyharvest.com/contact/
-N: Wilde appelboom.\\
+  * http://urbanharvest.wikispaces.com/
-L: Malus sylvestris\\
+  * http://urbanforage.org/
-[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malus_sylvestris|Wikipedia Link]]\\
+  * http://www.fruitcity.co.uk/map/
-Small picture.\\
+  * http://www.plukdestad.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=53
-Description: 2 bomen met kleine pezikleurige appeltjes, rijp in september\\
+  * [[http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=103970075517315679327.00048decb0bb2aa7e1696|Helsinki]]
-Recipe: appelcider....
+  * [[http://www.learnstuff.us/WildFoods.htm|Philadelphia]] [[http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=115435414840831758445.00044844c98e0a15821f2|map]]
-</blockquote>
+  * [[http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=103324553344884155558.000466051b7de1528b509&t=h&z=12|Southend Scrumping]]
+  * [[http://imagoforest.com.au/rs_ev.html|Scrumpers Delight]] [[http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&vps=1&jsv=159e&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=108526843328230627584.000464e02933fc8e73756|map]]
+  * [[http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=h&radius=0.08&jsv=269b&split=1&rq=1&ev=p&vps=3&hq=Public+Fruit&hnear=&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=108815335641859661998.00048e96d6bca3086311c|Pick from the Park]]
-=== Somewhat related apps: ===
+  * http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=106549722530845255618.00046e8abe731301e2517
+  * http://www.garden.geek.nz/2010/04/foraging-new-zealand/
+  * http://www.olwydd.org/herbs/forage.php
+  * http://www.hungerford.uk.net/HEAT/index.php?m=food
+  * http://www.batchgeo.com/map/572a6f1d1cc073635890f71aac4be592
+  * http://blitzbrisbane.org/component/content/article/16-content/130-edible-brisbane-map
+  * http://jezwhitworth.co.uk/2010/09/my-fruit-foraging-map/
+  * http://urbanforaging.manukadesign.co.nz/index.php/foraging-map/
+  * http://duo.irational.org/food_for_free/
+  * http://neighborhoodfruit.com/find_fruit
+  * http://www.urbanforestmap.org/trees/182811/
+  * http://www.fallenfruit.org/
+  * http://fruitid.techophosting.co.uk/
+  * http://www.wildcrafting.net/
   * http://www.foodspotting.com/
+  * http://newforesttransition.ning.com/profiles/blogs/new-local-food-map
+\\
   * pollution maps > http://www.appcraver.com/pollution/
+  * pollution map Cananda: http://www.emitter.ca/index.php/about
   * Dutch butterfly guide > http://vlindergids.natuurlijkwild.nl/
   * more [[green apps]]
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 a part of [[project groworld]] and [[category gardens]]
+http://fo.am/groworld/
+[[http://augmentedecology.posterous.com|IforAE]]