This document summarizes a presentation given at the NETTIES 2015 conference on smart cities and open data. The presentation discusses how Amsterdam in the 16th century could be considered one of the first smart cities due to its use of open data on trade and cargo. This data-driven economy allowed for new industries like stock exchanges. The presentation also discusses how today's understanding of smart cities focuses on integration, overcoming information silos, and finding optimal transportation routes through semantic representation of data. Examples of European smart city projects are provided.

1. NETTIES 2015
(13th International Conference on Networking Entities)
5 – 8 March 2015
"Open Data and Big Data –
The Impact on Digital Society and Smart Cities“
Urban Mobility and Smart Cities –
a perspective from European R&D
Günter Koch, Humboldt Cosmos Multiversity

2. “One could argue that Amsterdam was the first Smart City in the world; not with the
start of our Smart cCity program in 2009, but as early as the end of the 16th century when
Amsterdam began to grow in importance as a trading city. One of the key reasons that
Amsterdam became one of the richest cities of that time, with over 50% of all the sea-
vessels in the world departing and arriving at its harbour, was the availability of data on
trade and cargo. In a physical square of 400 by 400 meters all the information on the
cargo, destination and ownership of all these vessels was gathered. This enabled
tradesman to trade cargo that hadn’t even been offloaded from the vessel yet and to
compare one another’s products. The rich data enabled the start of the first stock
exchange and the opportunity for everybody to invest in trade, generating investments
never seen before. Financial newspapers shared the information with everybody who
wanted it. Essentially, it was a data driven economy with Open Data avant la lettre”.
Eberhard van der Laan, Mayor of Amsterdam
Cities were always smart –
that‘s part of their definiton

3. Today‘s understanding, why a city
might be called smart

4. Smart Cities - a mainstram subject of the European
Research and Technology Organisations (RTOs)

5. The name of the game: integration +
overcoming the silos
web-of-objects.com
Prodevelop, Spain
FP7 VITAL
London / Istanbul
www.vital-iot.com

6. Holistic
&inter-
disciplii-nary
approaches
A bigger picture
TU Delft: direct.tudelft.nl/ahine-117.htmlUFO: matthias.jarke@fit.fraunhofer.de

7. Integration: More than plugging togther
webdiis.unizar.es/~silarri/SemanticMOVE/

8. An interesting definition: “My understanding of the term "semantics" is that words can
be manipulated to influence human thought and action. George Orwell had a good
grasp of the concept, for example: “Newspeak” . Please look up "semantics" in a
dictionary for a more professional definition”.
by Friend of Tell March 06, 2009 in the “Urban Dictionary”
Semantics is the study of meaning. It focuses on the relation between signifiers, like
words, phrases, signs and symbols and what they stand for, their denotation…forms of
semantics include the semantics of programming languages, formal logics, and semiotics.
In computer science the term semantics refers to the meaning of languages, as opposed
to their form (syntax) . Semantics provides the rules for interpreting the syntax which do
not provide the meaning directly but constrains the possible interpretations of what is
declared. In other words, semantics is about interpretation of an expression. Additionally,
the term is applied to certain types of data structures specifically designed and used for
representing information content.
A semantic network is a network which represents semantic relations between concepts.
This is often used as a form of knowledge representation. It is a directed or undirected
graph consisting of vertices, which represent concepts, and edges
Plugging together
the meanings of data (structures)

9. The ultimate goal:
to find your fastest, cheapest and most comfortable way

10. 2006: Workshop beim Wiener Planungsstadtrat DI Rudi Schicker

11. http://forschen-entdecken.at/fileadmin/user_upload/Forschen_Entdecken/videos/2013-
2/SmartesBuch/FE-SmartesBuch-576p-A.mp4.mp4

12. Im Masterplan Verkehr 2003 wurden
folgende Ziele für das Jahr 2020
festgelegt:
 Verminderung des motorisierten
Individualverkehrs auf 25 %
Steigerung des öffentlichen
Verkehrs von 34 auf 40 %
 Steigerung im
stadtgrenzenüberschreitenden
Verkehr
 Änderung der
Verkehrsmittelaufteilung zwischen
öffentlichem Verkehr und
motorisiertem Individualverkehr
von 35 zu 65 %auf 45 zu 55 %

13. Haydn Mozart Kafka Klimt
Hundertwasser Freud Kepler Kubin Handke
Donizetti Gödel Watzlawik Glasersfeld
Popper Hayek Wittgenstein Beethoven
Musil Kokoschka Pauli Schrödinger Schumpeter
Brahms Mahler Rilke Meitner Schiele Porsche
Thonet Abraham a Sancta Clara Grillparzer P. Drucker
…. and hundreds more
Name associations with Vienna

14. The Vienna style of discourse:
Coffeehouse Meeetings

15. In a more systematic way, the coffeehouse
methods today are the methods of knowledge management

16. Thank you for your attention!
Questions?