TY - GEN
T1 - Comuns
T2 - 15th International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications, ICCSA 2015
AU - Rodrigues, Antonio Manuel
AU - Tenedorio, Jose Antonio
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Researh efforts in the Social Sciences have a great potential impact on society in general as it promotes greater knowledge of any and every aspect of human interactions. With this in mind, a combined project - Comuns, was developed, bringing together recent technological trends in data exploration and visualization, and the production of new high-precision historical geo-demographic datasets. Using dasymetric algorithms implemented within an Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) platform, source geographical data- aggregated according to distinct geometrical schema, was re-allocated according to common areas. The innovative nature of Comuns is three-folded: (1) for the first time, a large scale comprehensive time-space database is built for Portuguese census data; (2) the fact that data is made available online contributes to the goal of making knowledge symmetrically available; (3) the fact the only FOSS is used means that, other than man-hours, the project is costs’ free, accountability increases as does reproducibility. The open character of the project have potential implications in terms of the way human landscapes are perceived, given that new coherent datasets allow new explorations of the territory. Its target are primarily civil society in general; its applications range from academic to recreational, with potential uses in geomarketing projects.
AB - Researh efforts in the Social Sciences have a great potential impact on society in general as it promotes greater knowledge of any and every aspect of human interactions. With this in mind, a combined project - Comuns, was developed, bringing together recent technological trends in data exploration and visualization, and the production of new high-precision historical geo-demographic datasets. Using dasymetric algorithms implemented within an Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) platform, source geographical data- aggregated according to distinct geometrical schema, was re-allocated according to common areas. The innovative nature of Comuns is three-folded: (1) for the first time, a large scale comprehensive time-space database is built for Portuguese census data; (2) the fact that data is made available online contributes to the goal of making knowledge symmetrically available; (3) the fact the only FOSS is used means that, other than man-hours, the project is costs’ free, accountability increases as does reproducibility. The open character of the project have potential implications in terms of the way human landscapes are perceived, given that new coherent datasets allow new explorations of the territory. Its target are primarily civil society in general; its applications range from academic to recreational, with potential uses in geomarketing projects.
KW - Computational statistics
KW - Dasymetric mapping
KW - Database Management Systems
KW - FOSS
KW - Open-data
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-21470-2_25
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-21470-2_25
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84944447787
SN - 9783319214696
VL - 9157
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 356
EP - 366
BT - Computational Science and its Applications - ICCSA 2015 - 15th International Conference, Proceedings
A2 - Gervasi , O.
A2 - Rocha, A.M.A.C.
A2 - Murgante, B.
A2 - Taniar, D.
A2 - Apduhan, B.O.
A2 - Gavrilova, M.L.
A2 - Misra, S.
A2 - Torre, C.
PB - Springer
CY - Cham
Y2 - 22 June 2015 through 25 June 2015
ER -