The OCT-Core (or OCT Transparency Module) is a module of the Open City Toolkit, which provides technical means of linking apps to the datasets that they use, as well as some statistics about the frequency of retrieval of a specific dataset.
The objective of the OCT transparency module is to help answer the following questions:
- What are datasets available in my city?
- How often are these datasets used?
- Which apps use these datasets?
A demo of the OCT Transparency Module is accessible at OCT Core Demo.
The OCT-Code can be installed for personal use using Docker. Installation instructions are available here.
The following publications related to the OCT-Core provide futher details about the ideas behind the application and its evaluation.
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Degbelo, A., Granell, C., Trilles, S., Bhattacharya, D. and Wissing, J. (2019) ‘Tell me how my open data is re-used: increasing transparency through the Open City Toolkit’, in Open Data | Open Cities. [Briefly presents the key innovation of the OCT-Core and its evaluation]
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Degbelo, A. and Kauppinen, T. (2018) ‘Increasing transparency through web maps’, in Champin, P.-A., Gandon, F. L., Lalmas, M., and Ipeirotis, P. G. (eds) Companion of Proceedings of the Web Conference 2018 - WWW ’18. Lyon, France: ACM Press, pp. 899–904. [Presents example apps of the OCT-Core]
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Degbelo, A., Trilles, S., Kray, C., Bhattacharya, D., Schiestel, N., Wissing, J. and Granell, C. (2016) ‘Designing semantic application programming interfaces for open government data’, JeDEM - eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government, 8(2), pp. 21–58. [Presents the API underlying the OCT-Core]
The code is distributed under the Apache v2 License.