Urban Games for Smart Cities – Milano, 30 marzo 2011
Urban Games for Smart Cities
"Vision Workshop" on Smart Cities
Irene Celino – Semantic Web Practice
CEFRIEL
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Urban Computing in LarKC
� Urban LarKC:� Integration of data about monuments, events and path-finding in
Milano through Linked Data and Open Data� (also extensible to other locations)� http://larkc.cefriel.it/alpha-Urban-LarKC/
� Traffic LarKC:� Integration of traffic predictions and path-finding in Milano through
Machine Learning and Semantic Web technologies � in collaboration with Siemens� http://larkc.cefriel.it/traffic-larkc/
� Local "Mavens" (ongoing work)� Extraction of data from social networks (Twitter, foursquare, etc.) to
identify "experts" of local POIs in Seoul (e.g. restaurants)� JRU with Politecnico, in collaboration with Saltlux and Siemens
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GWAP per Linked Data Quality
(ongoing work)� Games with a Purpose (GWAP)
� game played on a computer that serves some purpose for the people setting up the game by harnessing human abilities in an entertaining setting� Data collection
� e.g. GWAP used to tag images� Data quality assessment
� e.g. GWAP (or sort of) used to correct/update manually curated datasets
� Linked Data are large datasets that contains information with a varying level of quality
� let's use GWAP to improve Linked Data sets (about urban environments)
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Vision: 3 converging trends?
Urban Computing e Location-based Services
(LBS)
Linked Data e Semantic Web
Games with a Purpose e Crowdsourcing
Urban Games
citizens as sensors, check-in logging, mobile apps
collecting data, cleaning data, engaging the user, supporting the user while entertaining him/her
open data, structured data, government data, tourism data, social networks, touristic recommendations
Preliminary contacts with:
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