Joint Doctorate in Geoinformatics: Enabling Open Cities
Short Description
GEOTEC is one of three partners organising the Joint Doctorate “Geoinformatics: Enabling Open Cities (GEO-C)”, funded under the EU Marie Curie International Training Networks (ITN) program, European Joint Doctorates (EJD). GEO-C aims to contribute methods and tools to realise smart and open cities, in which all groups of society can participate on all levels and benefit in many ways. Complementary strands of research in GEO-C (participation, data analysis & fusion, services) will lead to an improved understanding of how to build open cities and will produce a prototypical open city toolkit. With a budget of over 3’5 million EURO, Geo-C provides 15 Phd students (5 in Spain, 5 in Portugal, 5 in Germany) the opportunity to do research and advance the state of the art in smart and open cities.
GEOTEC’s contribution
The main contribution is the Open City Toolkit (OCT), that it is envisioned as an integrated, open source software empowering citizens, providing them with analytical tools and citizen-centric services in the context of a smart city. It is incorporating the results of the various research lines within the GEO-C phd students. It is designed to keep all the resulting resources (i.e., data, processes, services, guidelines, standards, ontologies, and models) along with utilities, tools and applications that make use of these resources
Publications
Benitez-Paez, Fernando; Degbelo, Auriol; Trilles-Oliver, Sergio; Huerta-Guijarro, Joaquín Roadblocks Hindering the Reuse of Open Geodata in Colombia and Spain: A Data User’s Perspective Journal Article In: ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 7 (1), pp. 6, 2018, ISSN: 2220-9964. @article{ijgi7010006, title = {Roadblocks Hindering the Reuse of Open Geodata in Colombia and Spain: A Data User’s Perspective}, author = {Fernando Benitez-Paez and Auriol Degbelo and Sergio Trilles-Oliver and Joaquín Huerta-Guijarro}, url = {http://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/7/1/6}, doi = {10.3390/ijgi7010006}, issn = {2220-9964}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-01-01}, journal = {ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information}, volume = {7}, number = {1}, pages = {6}, abstract = {Open data initiatives are playing an important role in current city governments. Despite more data being made open, few studies have looked into barriers to open geographic data reuse from a data consumer’s perspective. This article suggests a taxonomy of these barriers for Colombia and Spain, based on a literature review, an online questionnaire, and workshops conducted in four cities of these two countries. The taxonomy highlights that issues such as outdated data, low integration of data producers, published data being difficult to access, misinterpretation and misuse of released data and their terms of use are the most relevant from the data consumer’s point of view. The article ends with some recommendations to open data providers and research as regards steps to make open geographic data more usable in the countries analyzed.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Open data initiatives are playing an important role in current city governments. Despite more data being made open, few studies have looked into barriers to open geographic data reuse from a data consumer’s perspective. This article suggests a taxonomy of these barriers for Colombia and Spain, based on a literature review, an online questionnaire, and workshops conducted in four cities of these two countries. The taxonomy highlights that issues such as outdated data, low integration of data producers, published data being difficult to access, misinterpretation and misuse of released data and their terms of use are the most relevant from the data consumer’s point of view. The article ends with some recommendations to open data providers and research as regards steps to make open geographic data more usable in the countries analyzed. |
Zolotov, Mijail Naranjo; Oliveira, Tiago; Casteleyn, Sven E-participation adoption models research in the last 17 years: A weight and meta-analytical review Journal Article In: Computers in Human Behavior, 81 , pp. 350 - 365, 2018, ISSN: 0747-5632. @article{NARANJOZOLOTOV2018350, title = {E-participation adoption models research in the last 17 years: A weight and meta-analytical review}, author = { Mijail Naranjo Zolotov and Tiago Oliveira and Sven Casteleyn}, url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563217307112}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.12.031}, issn = {0747-5632}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-01-01}, journal = {Computers in Human Behavior}, volume = {81}, pages = {350 - 365}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } |
Technical contact: Sergi Trilles (strilles@uji.es)
IP: Joaquín Huerta (huerta@uji.es)
Website: http://geo-c.eu/