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Title	Open Urban Data And The Sustainable Development Goals
ID_Doc	40179
Authors	Meschede C.; Siebenlist T.
Year	2019
Published	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3325112.3325269
Abstract	Since the adoption of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 - an ambitious agenda to end poverty, combat environmental threats and ensure prosperity for everyone - some effort has been made regarding the adequate measuring of the progress on its targets. As the crucial point is the availability of sufficient, comparable information, open data can play a key role. The coverage of open data, i.e., data that is machine-readable, freely available and reusable for everyone, is assessed by several measurement tools. We propose the use of open governmental data to make the achievement of SDGs easy and transparent to measure. For this purpose, a mapping of the open data categories to the SDGs is presented. Further, we argue that the SDGs need to be tackled in particular at the city level. For analyzing the current applicability of open data for measuring progress on the SDGs, we provide a small-scale case study on German open data portals and the embedded data categories and datasets. The results suggest that further standardization is needed in order to be able to use open data for comparing cities and their progress towards the SDGs. © 2019 Association for Computing Machinery.
Author Keywords	DCAT-AP; Open Data; Open Governmental Data; Smart Cities; Standards; Sustainable Development Goals

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