Using linked open geo boundaries for adaptive delineation of functional urban areas

Ali Khalili; Peter van den Besselaar; Klaas Andries de Graaf

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-98192-5_51

Using linked open geo boundaries for adaptive delineation of functional urban areas

Ali Khalili^*
, Peter van den Besselaar
, Klaas Andries de Graaf

^*Corresponding author for this work

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The concentration of people, companies, research organizations and other activities in urban areas is a key process in the development of economies and societies. In order to investigate how these urban systems function, the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) in collaboration with EC (European Commission) and Eurostat have introduced the concept of Functional Urban Areas (FUAs). FUAs consider a preliminary set of socio-economic and environmental factors and provide a basis for an agreed definition for measuring development of metropolitan areas. However, because FUAs are predefined they do not meet the need for designing policies and research questions involving different types of urban areas that are defined by weighting some factors more than others or by using additional factors. Therefore, providing an adaptive approach for dynamic and multi-faceted delineation of FUAs, rather than merely relying on a rigid schema with a fixed list of FUAs per country, allows to more flexibly reflect the socio-economic geography of where people live and work. This adaptive definition of FUAs demands integration of data from multiple up-to-date linked data sources. In this paper, we describe an approach and implementation for a Linked Open Geo-Data space, which combines openly available spatial and non-spatial resources on the Web to classify urban areas with the aim to more flexibly monitor and research urban development.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Semantic Web: ESWC 2018 Satellite Events: Revised Selected Papers
Subtitle of host publication	ESWC 2018 Satellite Events, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 3-7, 2018, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Aldo Gangemi, Anna Lisa Gentile, Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese, Sebastian Rudolph, Maria Maleshkova, Heiko Paulheim, Jeff Z. Pan, Mehwish Alam
Publisher	Springer/Verlag
Pages	327-341
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319981925
ISBN (Print)	9783319981918
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98192-5_51
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	15th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2018 - Heraklion, Greece Duration: 3 Jun 2018 → 7 Jun 2018

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	11155 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	15th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2018
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Heraklion
Period	3/06/18 → 7/06/18

Funding

– RVO dataset34 provides a list of R&D projects that have received subsidies and financial support from the Netherlands Enterprise Agency35. Projects information includes companies and research institutes which are collaborat-ing on the project together with the geographical coordinates of the projects. We would like to thank our colleagues from the Knowledge Representation & Reasoning research group at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam for their helpful comments during the development of our approach for delineation of functional urban areas. This work was supported by a grant from the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme provided for the project RISIS (GA no. 313082). Aknowledgement. We would like to thank our colleagues from the Knowledge Representation & Reasoning research group at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam for their helpful comments during the development of our approach for delineation of functional urban areas. This work was supported by a grant from the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme provided for the project RISIS (GA no. 313082).

Funders	Funder number
Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland
Seventh Framework Programme
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
European Commission	313082

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SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

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Khalili, A., van den Besselaar, P., & de Graaf, K. A. (2018). Using linked open geo boundaries for adaptive delineation of functional urban areas. In A. Gangemi, A. L. Gentile, A. G. Nuzzolese, S. Rudolph, M. Maleshkova, H. Paulheim, J. Z. Pan, & M. Alam (Eds.), The Semantic Web: ESWC 2018 Satellite Events: Revised Selected Papers: ESWC 2018 Satellite Events, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 3-7, 2018, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 327-341). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 11155 LNCS). Springer/Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98192-5_51

Khalili, Ali ; van den Besselaar, Peter ; de Graaf, Klaas Andries. / Using linked open geo boundaries for adaptive delineation of functional urban areas. The Semantic Web: ESWC 2018 Satellite Events: Revised Selected Papers: ESWC 2018 Satellite Events, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 3-7, 2018, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Aldo Gangemi ; Anna Lisa Gentile ; Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese ; Sebastian Rudolph ; Maria Maleshkova ; Heiko Paulheim ; Jeff Z. Pan ; Mehwish Alam. Springer/Verlag, 2018. pp. 327-341 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Khalili, A, van den Besselaar, P & de Graaf, KA 2018, Using linked open geo boundaries for adaptive delineation of functional urban areas. in A Gangemi, AL Gentile, AG Nuzzolese, S Rudolph, M Maleshkova, H Paulheim, JZ Pan & M Alam (eds), The Semantic Web: ESWC 2018 Satellite Events: Revised Selected Papers: ESWC 2018 Satellite Events, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 3-7, 2018, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 11155 LNCS, Springer/Verlag, pp. 327-341, 15th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2018, Heraklion, Greece, 3/06/18. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98192-5_51

Using linked open geo boundaries for adaptive delineation of functional urban areas. / Khalili, Ali; van den Besselaar, Peter; de Graaf, Klaas Andries.
The Semantic Web: ESWC 2018 Satellite Events: Revised Selected Papers: ESWC 2018 Satellite Events, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 3-7, 2018, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Aldo Gangemi; Anna Lisa Gentile; Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese; Sebastian Rudolph; Maria Maleshkova; Heiko Paulheim; Jeff Z. Pan; Mehwish Alam. Springer/Verlag, 2018. p. 327-341 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 11155 LNCS).

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Khalili A, van den Besselaar P, de Graaf KA. Using linked open geo boundaries for adaptive delineation of functional urban areas. In Gangemi A, Gentile AL, Nuzzolese AG, Rudolph S, Maleshkova M, Paulheim H, Pan JZ, Alam M, editors, The Semantic Web: ESWC 2018 Satellite Events: Revised Selected Papers: ESWC 2018 Satellite Events, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 3-7, 2018, Revised Selected Papers. Springer/Verlag. 2018. p. 327-341. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). Epub 2018 Aug 2. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-98192-5_51

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