Spatial Data Infrastructures developed at national and international level correspond to the strategy adopted by governments to support the emergence of a society spatially enabled, i.e. able to benefit from the geospatial data. At the local level, with reference to the smart city paradigm, a city -or community- answers to the "smart" requirement in its broadest sense, if the ICT solutions adopted to improve the lives of the community contribute, at the same time, to the emergence of spatially enabled citizens and businesses, thus allowing them access and use of geospatial data. Smart cities’ SDIs play a key role in supporting the creation of a favorable environment for the spatial data sharing. Then, they may help the creation of spatially enabled cities, assigning a central function to their users; an SDI designed and managed adopting a user-centric vision, i.e. focused on the understanding of the needs of individuals and of their point of view, with respect to the geospatial data exploit, increases users' spatial practical ability, hence their spatial enablement. In this context Semantics and Linked Open Data play a potentially political role in the creation of common, shared and searchable contents: spatially enabled citizens become the basis of a shared and recognized infrastructure.

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Geographical Open Data,
Semantics and Smart Cities
Massimo Zotti @massimozotti

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Bari
Roma
Athens
Planetek Group

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Key Numbers
people 55
M€/y 5
year 1994
Planetek Group
SME

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Key Technologies
Remote sensing
Spatial Data Infrastructure
Location Based Systems
Space Software

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Geographical Open Data,
Semantics and Smart Cities

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Mash-up or spatial analysis?
http://umap.openstreetmap.fr – © openstreetmap contributors

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Linked geospatial data
Where are we today?
GetLOD
Spatial Data Infrastructures  RDF

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Linked geospatial data
Where are we today?
GetLOD
Spatial Data Infrastructures  RDF
Ontologies for INSPIRE data themes
common ontologies and geographical data standardization

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Linked geospatial data
Where are we today?
GetLOD
Spatial Data Infrastructures  RDF
Ontologies for INSPIRE data themes
common ontologies and geographical data standardization
Crowdmapping
openstreetmap and neogeography
Resources:
• GetLOD: www.planetek.it/eng/products/all_products/getlod
• INSPIRE and Ontologies: http://www.je-lks.org/ojs/index.php/Je-LKS_EN/article/view/914
• Openstreetmap: www.openstreetmap.org

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Where do we go now?
 SDI for Smart Cities enabling data interlinking
need for semantics in opengeodata
 SDI for spatially enabled Citizens
citizens re-use and produce geospatial information

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Where do we go now?
 SDI for Smart Cities enabling data interlinking
need for semantics in opengeodata
 SDI for spatially enabled Citizens
citizens re-use and produce geospatial information
 geospatial indicators and metrics
for the governance of the smart city

12. Thank you!
For further information:
Massimo Zotti, Head of Government & Security SBU
zotti@planetek.it @massimozotti
Via Massaua 12, 70132 Bari, ITALY
Tel: +39 080 96 44 200
www.planetek.it