%0 Journal Article 
%A Aguilera, Unai
%A López-de-Ipiña, Diego
%A Pérez-Velasco, Jorge
%T Collaboration-Centred Cities through Urban Apps Based on Open and User-Generated Data
%D 2016
* MDPI AG, ST ALBAN-ANLAGE 66, CH-4052 BASEL, SWITZERLAND
%X 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.
%@ 1424-8220
%K smart city
%K apps
%K heterogeneous data
%K prosuming
%K access control
doi 10.3390/s16071022
%U http://hdl.handle.net/11556/287
%~ GOEDOC, SUB GOETTINGEN