Collaboration-Centred Cities through Urban Apps Based on Open and User-Generated Data
This paper describes the IES Cities platform conceived to streamline the development of urban apps that combine heterogeneous datasets provided by diverse entities, namely, government, citizens, sensor infrastructure and other information data sources. This work pursues the challenge of achieving ef...
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| author | Unai Aguilera Diego López-de-Ipiña Jorge Pérez |
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| description | This paper describes the IES Cities platform conceived to streamline the development of urban apps that combine heterogeneous datasets provided by diverse entities, namely, government, citizens, sensor infrastructure and other information data sources. This work pursues the challenge of achieving effective citizen collaboration by empowering them to prosume urban data across time. Particularly, this paper focuses on the query mapper; a key component of the IES Cities platform devised to democratize the development of open data-based mobile urban apps. This component allows developers not only to use available data, but also to contribute to existing datasets with the execution of SQL sentences. In addition, the component allows developers to create ad hoc storages for their applications, publishable as new datasets accessible by other consumers. As multiple users could be contributing and using a dataset, our solution also provides a data level permission mechanism to control how the platform manages the access to its datasets. We have evaluated the advantages brought forward by IES Cities from the developers’ perspective by describing an exemplary urban app created on top of it. In addition, we include an evaluation of the main functionalities of the query mapper. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-71f1cefb558c4360897cc85c8dc6bd9f2022-12-22T04:20:11ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202016-07-01167102210.3390/s16071022s16071022Collaboration-Centred Cities through Urban Apps Based on Open and User-Generated DataUnai Aguilera0Diego López-de-Ipiña1Jorge Pérez2DeustoTech - Fundación Deusto, Avda Universidades, 24, 48007 Bilbao, SpainDeustoTech - Fundación Deusto, Avda Universidades, 24, 48007 Bilbao, SpainTECNALIA, eServices, Velázquez 64-66, E-28001 Madrid, SpainThis paper describes the IES Cities platform conceived to streamline the development of urban apps that combine heterogeneous datasets provided by diverse entities, namely, government, citizens, sensor infrastructure and other information data sources. This work pursues the challenge of achieving effective citizen collaboration by empowering them to prosume urban data across time. Particularly, this paper focuses on the query mapper; a key component of the IES Cities platform devised to democratize the development of open data-based mobile urban apps. This component allows developers not only to use available data, but also to contribute to existing datasets with the execution of SQL sentences. In addition, the component allows developers to create ad hoc storages for their applications, publishable as new datasets accessible by other consumers. As multiple users could be contributing and using a dataset, our solution also provides a data level permission mechanism to control how the platform manages the access to its datasets. We have evaluated the advantages brought forward by IES Cities from the developers’ perspective by describing an exemplary urban app created on top of it. In addition, we include an evaluation of the main functionalities of the query mapper.http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/16/7/1022smart cityheterogeneous dataappsprosumingaccess control |
| spellingShingle | Unai Aguilera Diego López-de-Ipiña Jorge Pérez Collaboration-Centred Cities through Urban Apps Based on Open and User-Generated Data Sensors smart city heterogeneous data apps prosuming access control |
| title | Collaboration-Centred Cities through Urban Apps Based on Open and User-Generated Data |
| title_full | Collaboration-Centred Cities through Urban Apps Based on Open and User-Generated Data |
| title_fullStr | Collaboration-Centred Cities through Urban Apps Based on Open and User-Generated Data |
| title_full_unstemmed | Collaboration-Centred Cities through Urban Apps Based on Open and User-Generated Data |
| title_short | Collaboration-Centred Cities through Urban Apps Based on Open and User-Generated Data |
| title_sort | collaboration centred cities through urban apps based on open and user generated data |
| topic | smart city heterogeneous data apps prosuming access control |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/16/7/1022 |
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