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
Trilles-Oliver, Sergio; Granell-Canut, Carlos; Degbelo, Auriol; Bhattacharya, Devanjan Interactive Guidelines: Public Communication of Data-based Research in Cities Journal Article In: PLOS ONE, 15 (1), pp. e0228008, 2020, ISSN: 1932-6203, (IF). @article{Trilles-Oliver2020b, title = {Interactive Guidelines: Public Communication of Data-based Research in Cities}, author = {Sergio Trilles-Oliver and Carlos Granell-Canut and Auriol Degbelo and Devanjan Bhattacharya}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228008}, issn = {1932-6203}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-01-31}, journal = {PLOS ONE}, volume = {15}, number = {1}, pages = {e0228008}, abstract = {Scientific research results are traditionally published as articles in peer-reviewed conference proceedings or journals. These articles often use technical jargon, which precludes the general public from consuming the results achieved. New ways to communicate scientific results are thus necessary to transfer scientific insights to non-experts, and this work proposes the concept of interactive guidelines to fill this gap. A web tool, called Interactive Guidelines Tool, was developed as a proof-of-concept for the idea. It was used in the context of the GEO-C project to communicate research outputs in smart cities scenarios to the public. A comparative analysis between the Interactive Guidelines Tool and related tools helps to highlight the progress it enables beyond the current state of the art. Interactive Guidelines Tool is available as an open-source tool and can be customised/extended by any interested researcher, in the process of making scientific knowledge and insights more accessible and understandable to a broader public}, note = {IF}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Scientific research results are traditionally published as articles in peer-reviewed conference proceedings or journals. These articles often use technical jargon, which precludes the general public from consuming the results achieved. New ways to communicate scientific results are thus necessary to transfer scientific insights to non-experts, and this work proposes the concept of interactive guidelines to fill this gap. A web tool, called Interactive Guidelines Tool, was developed as a proof-of-concept for the idea. It was used in the context of the GEO-C project to communicate research outputs in smart cities scenarios to the public. A comparative analysis between the Interactive Guidelines Tool and related tools helps to highlight the progress it enables beyond the current state of the art. Interactive Guidelines Tool is available as an open-source tool and can be customised/extended by any interested researcher, in the process of making scientific knowledge and insights more accessible and understandable to a broader public |
Degbelo, Auriol; Granell-Canut, Carlos; Trilles-Oliver, Sergio; Bhattacharya, Devanjan; Wissing, Jonas Tell Me How My Open Data is Re-used: increasing transparency through the Open City Toolkit Book Chapter In: S. Hawken H. Han, Pettit C (Ed.): Open Cities, Open Data: Collaborative Cities in the Information Era , pp. 311-330, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, ISBN: 978-981-13-6604-8.. @inbook{Degbelo2020, title = {Tell Me How My Open Data is Re-used: increasing transparency through the Open City Toolkit}, author = {Auriol Degbelo and Carlos Granell-Canut and Sergio Trilles-Oliver and Devanjan Bhattacharya and Jonas Wissing}, editor = {S. Hawken, H. Han, C. Pettit}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6605-5_14}, isbn = {978-981-13-6604-8.}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-01-15}, booktitle = {Open Cities, Open Data: Collaborative Cities in the Information Era }, pages = {311-330}, publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan}, abstract = {The Open Data movement has been gaining momentum in recent years, with increasingly many public institutions making their data freely accessible. Despite much data being already open (and more to come), finding information about the actual usage of these open datasets is still a challenge. This chapter introduces two tools of the Open City Toolkit (OCT) that tackle this issue: a tool to increase transparency and interactive guidelines. Interviews with city council employees confirmed the utility of the transparency tool. Both tools can be used by city councils (for planning purposes) and by users interested to know more about the value of current open datasets (for information purposes).}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inbook} } The Open Data movement has been gaining momentum in recent years, with increasingly many public institutions making their data freely accessible. Despite much data being already open (and more to come), finding information about the actual usage of these open datasets is still a challenge. This chapter introduces two tools of the Open City Toolkit (OCT) that tackle this issue: a tool to increase transparency and interactive guidelines. Interviews with city council employees confirmed the utility of the transparency tool. Both tools can be used by city councils (for planning purposes) and by users interested to know more about the value of current open datasets (for information purposes). |
Technical contact: Sergi Trilles (strilles@uji.es)
IP: Joaquín Huerta (huerta@uji.es)
Website: http://geo-c.eu/
