personal preparation for the participation to IBM Colloquium, the opening event of the new Smarter City R&D Center of IBM in Dublin

1. Open Data for Smart(er) Cities
"Food for thought"
IBM Colloquium – The Science of Cities
Irene Celino
CEFRIEL – ICT Institute, Politecnico di Milano
IBM Colloquium - Open Data Track

2. Open Goverment Data for Smart Cities
Private Public
Open Closed Citizen Authority
Government
Free Pay
For-profit Not-for-profit
Open Top-down Bottom-up
License Unlicensed Structured Unstructured
Individual Community Data Dump API
Format Content
Dirty data Quality data
IBM Colloquium - Open Data Track 2 Dublin, 27th October 2011

3. Ingredients for OGD (1/3)
Smarter Cities with... concrete actions
Small examples
Running applications
Pilot projects
Fail and try again
...
Some examples from our experience:
Light-weight integration of publicly available urban-related data:
http://larkc.cefriel.it/alpha-Urban-LarKC/
Using traffic sensors data and urban POIs for a semantic path-finding:
http://larkc.cefriel.it/traffic-larkc/ (winner of AI Mashup Challenge 2011)
IBM Colloquium - Open Data Track 3 Dublin, 27th October 2011

4. Ingredients for OGD (2/3)
Smarter Cities with... everybody
Public and private
Citizens and communities
Companies and public authorities
Top-down and bottom-up
...
Some examples from our experience:
Leveraging social media to gather people opinions about urban POIs:
http://larkc.cefriel.it/lbsma/bottari/ (winner of the Semantic Web Challenge 2011)
EIT as a channel (Politecnico and Cefriel being part of the Italian node coordinated by
Trento with direct involvement in the Smart Cities topic/track)
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5. Ingredients for OGD (3/3)
Smarter Cities with... fun ☺
Incentives for the citizens
Incentives for the tourists
Leverage individual capabilities
Engage responsabily
...
Some examples from our experience:
Relying on user investigation capabilities to provide exploratory search tools:
http://www.search-computing.it/
Using casual games to engage people to provide effective contributions to data quality:
http://www.slideshare.net/iricelino/urbangames-in-planetdata
IBM Colloquium - Open Data Track 5 Dublin, 27th October 2011

6. Linked Data and Semantic Web
for Smart Cities in LarKC
Irene Celino
CEFRIEL – ICT Institute, Politecnico di Milano
IBM Colloquium - Open Data Track
Dublin, 27th October 2011
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7. Urban Computing
The integration of computing, sensing, and actuation technologies
into everyday urban settings and lifestyles.
[source IEEE Pervasive Computing,July-September 2007 (Vol. 6, No. 3)]
Urban settings include streets, squares, pubs, shops, buses, and
cafés - any space in the semipublic realms of our towns and cities
Only in the last few years research paid attention to urban
environments
Pervasive computing is more and more applied
Great success of Location-based Services and Location-based Social
Networks with increasing amounts of data
Urban settings are challenging for experimentation & deployment
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8. LarKC Urban Computing Use Case
Urban Computing to address cities' challenges
LarKC to elaborate urban data and provide solutions
Is public transportation where the people are?
Which landmarks attract more people?
Where are people concentrating?
Where is traffic moving?
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9. Semantic Technologies
"Semantics" in the LarKC Urban Computing use case
Semantic Points of Interest (POIs) retrieval:
Which are the relevant monuments? What events are scheduled tonight?
What POIs should I visit?
Operations Research:
What is the most "desirable" path to my destination (shortest vs. quickest)?
How should I schedule my city tour given my time constraints (TSP
problem)?
Machine Learning:
What POIs could be interesting for me? Should I expect traffic on my way
to…? Which "mavens" of this POI should I ask for advice?
RDF/SPARQL/OWL based interoperability:
integration and interoperability between different components through the
adoption of Semantic Web technologies (enabled by the LarKC platform)
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10. Urban LarKC
Urban LarKC: find monuments and events in Milano and
the shortest path to reach them
http://larkc.cefriel.it/alpha-Urban-LarKC/
IBM Colloquium - Open Data Track 10 Dublin, 27th October 2011

11. Glusic
Glusic: music concert recommender system based on
social streams and multimedia contents
IBM Colloquium - Open Data Track 11 Dublin, 27th October 2011

12. Road Sign Management
Korean Road Sign Management: automatic checking of
road signs information in Seoul
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13. Traffic LarKC
Traffic LarKC: find the shortest/quickest path to your
destination in Milano with traffic predictions
http://larkc.cefriel.it/traffic-larkc/
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14. BOTTARI
BOTTARI: Location-based Social Media Analytics on Seoul
POIs in Insa-Dong
http://larkc.cefriel.it/lbsma/bottari/
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15. Thanks for your time in viewing
this presentation!
Irene Celino – CEFRIEL, ICT Institute Politecnico di Milano
email: Irene.Celino@cefriel.it – web: http://swa.cefriel.it
IBM Colloquium - Open Data Track