Del 5 al 7 de Noviembre ha tenido lugar en Lisboa las V Jornadas Ibéricas de Infraestructuras de Datos Espaciales (JIIDE 2014). La actividad de IAAA ha sido bastante intensa realizando 3 presentaciones (“Upgrading maps with Linked Data”, “Servicios Basados en la Localización en Entornos SIN Cobertura 3G” e “Integración Semántica en una IDE”) y participando en 2 workshops (“RDF y Datos enlazados”, y “Foro OGC ILAF”).
IAAA participa en JIIDE 2014
November 11th, 2014Reunión del proyecto WE@EU
November 6th, 2014Esta semana hemos tenido una nueva reunión del proyecto WE@EU en Zaragoza. En la misma celebramos reuniones B2B entre entidades asociadas a los clusters participantes, hicimos una presentación a entidades de la región, tuvimos una reunión de trabajo muy intensa, y cerramos esta tarde con un workshop que organizamos con Zinnae en barcelona en el marco de la reunión de la EIP de Agua.
Los medios de comunicación han recogido este evento:
IAAA and standardization of Open Data in Spain
August 15th, 2014Since april 2014, IAAA staff is attached to AENOR standardization work related to Smart Cities as members of the Technical Committee AEN/CTN178 – CIUDADES INTELIGENTES. AENOR has published recently a white paper describing its activities. Although we are newcomers in this TC, we are heavily involved in its most recent standard proposal: PNE 178301 Ciudades Inteligentes. Datos Abiertos (Open Data).
Open Government Data is essential on the path towards Smart Cities. When a city opens its data silos, it enables the establishment of mechanisms for transparency, as well as opportunities for participation and collaboration of citizens, favouring a more efficient democratic system. Furthermore, the reuse of the information produced by public authorities is a power supply of new digital products and services, invigorates the economy and business, and ultimately generates value for citizens.
In Spain, Law 37/2007, of 16 November, on the Reuse of Public Sector Information, Law 19/2013 of 9 December, Transparency, Access to Public Information and Good Governance, as well as regional and local legislative frameworks are based on the basic right of free access to public sector information. This legal framework is now boosting the development of Open Data initiatives at different levels. The goal of PNE 178301 is assessing the maturity of Open Data initiatives at the local level (but it also can be applied to upper levels). The assessment is comprehensive and includes dimensions such as strategy, sustainability, quality, efficiency and effectiveness.
The IAAA leads a European Project in Water Efficiency in European Urban Areas
June 5th, 2013“WE@EU: Water Efficiency in European Urban Areas” is a project of the FP7 ‘Regions of knowledge’ initiative leads by the University of Zaragoza and with the participations of five regions: Aragón (Spain), Provenza-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (France), East of England (United Kingdom), Galilee (Israel) and Malta.
The objective of this project is the coordination of activities and work in R&D&i in the market for efficient use and management of water in urban environments.
The project will establish those aspects in which these regions have a potential (and a reality) that will allow them to be leaders in R&D&i in the field of efficient use and management of water in urban environments. Over this analysis of capabilities, the project will propose action lines for the promotion and public funding of innovation works in this area. The aim is to influence to regional and national governments and to the EU to ensure that it will be possible to continue innovating in those areas in which the regions already have a competitive advantage so they do not lose it, or even increases.
The project includes a contribution from the European Commission over 2 million Euros, will be developed over 3 years and is led by Dr. F. Javier Zarazaga-Soria, Associate Professor at the Universidad de Zaragoza and Associate Director of the Group of Advanced Information Systems from the Engineering Research Instituto de Aragón of the University of Zaragoza.
Project partners:
University of Zaragoza (Spain)
Campus for medicine and research in Galilee Association (Israel)
Migal Galilee Technology Center, LTD (Israel)
Paragon Limited (Malta)
Peleg – Hagalil (Israel)
Ea eco-entreprises (France)
Opportunity Peterborough (UK)
Zinnae: Asoc. cluster urbano para el uso eficiente del agua (Spain)
Anglia Rusking University (UK)
Borja Espejo ganador del “International Space Apps Challenge” 2012 de Madrid
April 26th, 2013Los días 20 y 21 de Abril se celebró el “International Space Apps Challenge” (http://spaceappschallenge.org). Este evento es organizado por la NASA y tuvo lugar en las principales ciudades de los cinco continentes. Entre los destinos disponibles Borja participó en Madrid.
Este desafío busca una colaboración internacional centrada en la exploración espacial y tiene lugar simultáneamente durante 48 horas en ciudades de todo el mundo. El evento trata de conseguir una resolución colaborativa de problemas con la meta de generar soluciones de código abierto aplicables a necesidades globales presentes tanto en la vida en la Tierra como en la vida en el espacio.
La idea presentada por Borja consistía en el uso de modelos orientados a la toma de decisiones (basados en conceptos de Business Intelligence) para la explotación de distintos tipos de energías renovables. El modelo incluía una parte meteorológica, una parte financiera y su conexión.
Tras exponer su idea ante el público, se formó alrededor de ella un equipo que comprende estudiantes y profesionales del mundo de la ingeniería.
Partiendo de los desarrollos realizados en la última semanas previa al concurso, y tras 36 horas de desarrollo ininterrumpido, se presentó una aplicación web que proveía de una visión sencilla e intuitiva del complejo modelo de la capa de negocio.
La idea resultó ganadora dentro del challenge de Madrid, y el premio que ha recibido Borja es un máster de 9 meses con soporte de la NASA y con todos los gastos incluidos en la que tendrá formación trimestral en Madrid, Santo Domingo y Nueva York.
Pero la competición continúa. De momento se sigue compitiendo a nivel nacional hasta el 1 de Mayo, momento en el que se sabrá si la idea, ya convertida en aplicación, se clasifica para la fase final.
Detalles del proyecto: http://spaceappschallenge.org/project/energy2people/
eBook “An Architectural View of Spatial Data Infrastructures”
January 13th, 2013Spatial data infrastructures are large distributed information systems on the Internet, based on open standards that enable data sharing and use whose location is important, such as roads, satellite and aerial images, business and tourist attractions, noise maps and pollution, street or demographics. This book presents an approach based on architectures of distributed information systems for specifying and documenting spatial data infrastructures and facilitate their development and analysis.
Available at: bit.ly/13t230k
A quick view at: bit.ly/WT0kvc
New version of CatMdEdit
June 10th, 2012We are very pleased to communicate the release of CatMDEdit (4.6.6 version) metadata editor under Open Source (GNU Lesser General Public) license. This application is an initiative of the National Geographic Institute of Spain (IGN), which is the result of the scientific and technical collaboration between IGN and the Advanced Information Systems Group (IAAA) of the University of Zaragoza with the technical support of GeoSpatiumLab (GSL).
CatMDEdit is a metadata edition tool that facilitates the documentation of resources, with special focus on the description of geographic information resources. The main new feature that this new version includes is a conversion gateway between MARC21 and ISO19115 standards. This conversion gateway is the result of the research carried out in the GTI PC-IDEE (Interdisciplinary Working Group on Cartographic Heritage in the SDI) in the context of the Spanish SDI Working Group (http://www.idee.es/en/web/guest/subgrupos-de-trabajo). The technical specifications of this work can be obtained at http://metadatos.ign.es/metadatos/Patrimonio_cartografico. In addition to that, new adaptations have been added to this version in order to guarantee the INSPIRE Implementation Rules compliance.
CatMDEdit can be downloaded from:
http://catmdedit.sourceforge.net/
http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/software/catmdedit/description
Zaragoza City Council launches a new version of its website
May 15th, 2012The Zaragoza City Council has released today a new version of its website: http://www.zaragoza.es.
The new entry point provides direct access to a wide range of services for citizens displayed over the city map thanks to the Spatial Data Infrastructure of Zaragoza City Council technology (IDEZar).
On the right side of the Web page there is a drop down tab that allows the user to select among a broad volume of information about the city: news, mobility or municipal facilities an view it on the map.
This new development has been carried out together by the technical team of Zaragoza City Council Website, the Advanced Information Systems Laboratory from the University of Zaragoza and the company GeoSpatiumLab, S.L.