Building an Ecosystem for Sustainable Urban Informatics: Open Science and Reproducibility

The Urban Analytics Lab is a research group at the National University of Singapore with a holistic commitment to urban informatics: not just conducting analytical research but building an ecosystem that supports sustainable and human-centered development of the field and cross-pollination with other domains. This agenda includes foundational research such as advancing spatial data quality assessments, open data benchmarking, investigations on crowdsourcing, and advancing GeoAI methodologies alongside structural developments including tools, datasets, standards, and community initiatives. This presentation provided a high-level overview of the agenda illustrated through recent outputs: papers introducing novel applications of emerging data (such as street view imagery) and recent open-source software, open datasets, and community-building initiatives in journals and beyond. The presentation included reflections and lessons learned on fostering reproducibility and open science practices such as open data sharing.