The CitySDK Mobility API is a layer-based data distribution and service kit, which makes European mobility data and services interoperable. The API is part of CitySDK, a project funded by the European Union in which eight cities and more than 20 organisations collaborate. The CitySDK Mobility API makes it possible for developers and data owners to access and modify mobility data (e.g. public transport schedules, real-time traffic data, planned roadwork and parking space availability) through a uniform interface, in Amsterdam, Manchester, Helsinki and Rome alike. The API links different datasets from different data sources to addressable objects in a city, such as train stations, bus stops, roads and neighbourhoods. Many of those objects exist in the OpenStreetMap database; the CitySDK Mobility API uses OSM as a geospatial base layer to which it links data from other datasets. For example: GTFS schedules, Open311 service requests and real-time weather information can all be linked to a OSM node with the ""highway=bus_stop"" tag, making it very easy for data owners, city officials and developers to find and access data about the same object across different data sets. Developer's portal: http://dev.citysdk.waag.org/ API endpoint: http://api.citysdk.waag.org/

1. OpenStreetMap as base layer in a
linked open data distribution platform
CitySDK - Open Data & City Services
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bert@waag.org
http://dev.citysdk.waag.org/
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2. Waag Society
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3. CitySDK
• City Services
• Moveable code
• One interface for 8 European cities
• More and better open data
• Tourism, participation & mobility
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5. Data examples
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6. Data examples
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7. Data examples
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8. Open Data
• Good news: lots of open data available
• Bad news:
• Incomplete data
• Old data
• Datasets not linked
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9. Open Data
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Data online, open license
Structured data
Non-proprietary format
Use URIs to identify data
Link data to other data

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Data online, open license
Structured data
Non-proprietary format
Use URIs to identify data
Link data to other data

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12. DBpedia
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13. Dutch Railways
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14. Gemeentelijk Vervoersbedrijf
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15. Foursquare
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16. Weather information
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25. Unified REST API
• Data from different data sources
• REST API - per-object access
• Read+write
• JSON
• Turtle - semantic web
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27. Linked Open Data
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28. API demonstration
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31. Linking datasets
• “Museum of Science and Industry” = “MOSI”
• “Manchester” ≠ “Greater Manchester”
• “Wales” = “Cymru”
• Name? Location?
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34. Data owners
• CMS
• Easy to add and
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• Static & realtime
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35. Data owners
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36. Data owners
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40. Federated servers
Manchester API
Amsterdam API
Discovery service
Istanbul API
Lisbon API
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41. Istanbul
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49. Summary
• Data
• OpenStreetMap
• Public transport - GTFS
• Addresses & buildings
• Open311
• Parking garages
• Electrical vehicle charging points
• POIs & cultural events
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50. Summary
• API
• Nodes, layers & key-value data
• REST API
• JSON & Turtle/RDF
• Static & real-time data
• CMS for data import
• Instances
• Amsterdam, Istanbul, Lamia
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51. Thanks!
Bert Spaan
bert@waag.org
http://dev.citysdk.waag.org/
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