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Open Government Data combined with dynamic data collected from either citywide sensor networks or apps running in citizens’ smartphones offer ample potential for innovative urban services (apps) that realize Smarter Cities. This paper describes IES CITIES, a platform designed to facilitate the development of urban apps that exploit public data offered by councils and enriched by citizens. This solution addresses the needs of three main stakeholders in a city: a) citizens consuming useful data services in different domains but also contributing with complementary data to the city, b) companies leveraging the simple JSON-based RESTful API provided by IES CITIES to create novel urban apps, and c) the City Council, using the platform to publicize its urban datasets and track services assembled around them.

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López-de-Ipiña, D., Vanhecke, S., Peña, O., De Nies, T., Mannens, E. (2013). Citizen-Centric Linked Data Apps for Smart Cities. In: Urzaiz, G., Ochoa, S.F., Bravo, J., Chen, L.L., Oliveira, J. (eds) Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. Context-Awareness and Context-Driven Interaction. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8276. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03176-7_10

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