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Collaboration-Centred Cities Through Urban Apps Based on Open and User-Generated Data

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Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. Sensing, Processing, and Using Environmental Information (UCAmI 2015)

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This paper describes the IES Cities platform conceived to streamline the development of urban apps which combine heterogeneous datasets provided by diverse entities, namely, Government, citizens, sensor infrastructure and so on. Particularly, it focuses on the Query Mapper, a key component of this platform devised to democratize the development of Open Data based mobile urban apps. The advantages from the developers’ perspective brought forward by IES Cities are evaluated by describing an exemplary urban app created on top of it. This work pursues the challenge of achieving effective citizen collaboration by empowering them to prosume urban data across time.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    http://www.fixmystreet.com/

  2. 2.

    http://www.citysdk.eu

  3. 3.

    http://open311.org/

  4. 4.

    http://iescities.com/

  5. 5.

    http://iescities.com/IESCities/swagger/

  6. 6.

    https://play.google.com/store/search?q=iescities&c=apps

  7. 7.

    http://wiki.open311.org/GeoReport_v2/

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  1. Deusto Institute of Technology, DeustoTech, University of Deusto, 48007, Bilbao, Spain

    Diego López-de-Ipiña & Unai Aguilera

  2. eServices, TECNALIA, Bilbao, Spain

    Jorge Pérez

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  1. Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain

    Juan M. García-Chamizo

  2. University of Calabria, Rende, Italy

    Giancarlo Fortino

  3. Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

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López-de-Ipiña, D., Aguilera, U., Pérez, J. (2015). Collaboration-Centred Cities Through Urban Apps Based on Open and User-Generated Data. In: García-Chamizo, J., Fortino, G., Ochoa, S. (eds) Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. Sensing, Processing, and Using Environmental Information. UCAmI 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9454. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26401-1_19

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