Title
A Survey of Open Data Platforms in Six UK Smart City Initiatives
Abstract
This paper presents a comparative analysis of the feasibility studies submitted by six UK cities (London, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Bristol and Milton Keynes). The datasets were collected during the period of February-March 2017 by exploring their Open Data resources, common visions of their smart programmes and the themes of their projects. The aim of this work is to raise awareness and access of the existing data resources, encourage alignment of data collection and curation among projects with compatible objectives in different cities and to identify the gaps in coverage that are hampering achievement of the cities' visions. In this research, we distinguish between stored datasets that are accessible via data hubs, and live data that are only accessible via application programming interfaces in real time. Given that our findings are purely based on stored Open Data, we conclude that the Smart City dream will be only achieved in reality, where those involved in Smart Cities-related projects co-operate and share both experiences and resources in order to maximize progress towards the common goal but to minimize duplication of efforts and repetition of the same mistakes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1093/comjnl/bxy081
COMPUTER JOURNAL
Keywords
Field
DocType
Open Data,smart cities,innovative city tools,city applications
Data science,Open data,Data collection,Computer science,Data resources,Vision,Smart city,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
62
7
0010-4620
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
2
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lida Ghahremanlou100.34
Abdel-Rahman H. Tawil25011.63
Paul Kearney342.33
Hossein Nevisi400.34
Xia Zhao53111.44
Ali E. Abdallah612322.10