B. INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS ; links, resources, protocols & meeting dates - colouring-cities/manual GitHub Wiki
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1. CCRP research partners/platform hosts
The Colouring Cities Research Programme (CCRP) is a an academic research programme, overseen by the Alan Turing Institute in the UK that supports collaboration between international academic partners wishing to test and co-work on Colouring Cities open platform code designed to facilitate knowledge sharing about building stocks across countries - (socio-economic and environmental) - by increasing access to building attribute data. The collective aim of CCRP partners is to stimulate a rapid increase in the volume and geographic coverage, variety, accuracy, granularity and of open spatial data available on stocks, at building level able to be shared and compared across countries and use in socio-economic and environmental research, and to help improve stock quality, sustainability, efficiency and resilience in a way that advances The United Nations' Sustainability Development Goals.
CCRP platforms are currently being developed with academic partners in Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Colombia, Greece, Germany, Indonesia, Lebanon and Sweden, with discussions also taking place in a number of other countries. All CCRP platforms are at different stages of development. Current CCRP partner details and live platform links where available, are provided below:
COLOURING AUSTRALIA
Academic lead
Demonstration platform link
National academic partners & additional live platform links
- Colouring Perth - Curtin University
- Colouring Adelaide - University of Adelaide
- Colouring Brisbane - University of Queensland
- Colouring Canberra - University of Canberra
- Colouring Hobart - University of South Australia
- Colouring Melbourne - University of Melbourne
- Swinburne University
- Colouring Australia and the Australian Housing Data Analytics Platform integration
CCRP information
COLOURING BAHRAIN
Academic lead
Demonstration platform link
- Colouring Bahrain national platform currently under development. Live link due 2023
CCRP information
COLOURING BRITAIN
Academic lead
Demonstration platform and CCRP prototype links
- Colouring London, CCRP prototype platform
- Colouring Britain - to be activated Spring 2023
National academic partners & additional live platform links
- Colouring Loughborough (regional CCRP hub demonstration model) - University of Loughborough - activation due Spring 2023
- University of Oxford (Research software engineering - strategic support)
- Newcastle University (Research software Engineering)
- University College London, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (Colouring London prototype development host 2016-20)
CCRP information
COLOURING CANADA
Academic lead
Demonstration platform link TBC
CCRP information TBC
COLOURING COLOMBIA
Academic lead
Demonstration platform link
- Colouring Bogotá link coming shortly
CCRP information
COLOURING GERMANY
Academic lead
Demonstration platform link
CCRP information page
COLOURING GREECE
Academic lead
- [Urban Planning Research Lab - School of Architecture & Geochoros Geospatial Analysis and GIS Research Group, School of Rural, Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering. National Technical University of Athens](http://www.arch.ntua.gr/ https://www.survey.ntua.gr/en/)
Demonstration platform link
CCRP information page
COLOURING INDONESIA
Academic leads
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[Department of Geography, King's College London UK](https://www.kcl.ac.uk/geography/contact-us) -
Departments of Geodesy and Geomatic Engineering & of Urban and Regional Planning, [Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia](https://www.itb.ac.id/)
Demonstration platform link
CCRP information page
COLOURING LEBANON
Academic leads
Demonstration platform link
- Colouring Beirut relaunch April 2023
CCRP information page
COLOURING SWEDEN
Academic leads
Demonstration platform link
- Colouring Sweden planned launch April 2023
CCRP information page
CCRP Global Region Hubs
As the number of countries involved in the CCRP expands, Global Region Hubs are being set up to facilitate discussion between academic institutions within global regions on national building stocks, to increase the number of countries testing of Colouring Cities platform code, and to help to encourage use of CCRP data in socio-cultural, economic and environmental research.
CCRP Quality control and platform interoperability
CCRP branding is tightly controlled to maintain programme and platform quality, and to maximise user trust. Branding is also important as platform code is open-source, with experimentation by software developers and engineers encouraged. The CCRP provides the necessary space to allow international research partners to co-design and test platforms to the highest standards, to explore the potential value of captured data in many areas of building stock research, and to ensure ethical considerations are prioritised. Clear branding is also necessary to allow the purpose, principles, and quality and of Colouring Cities platforms to be instantly understood regardless of which country a Colouring Cities platform is set up in. Improvements to interface design and content are ongoing and incremental, building on findings from the CCRP group. CCCP partners use identical interfaces and main data category keypads to maximise clarity and interoperability of systems. Where platforms differ is in additional subcategory inclusion relevant to national/regional contexts, open-source code for which is also available within the CCRP GitHub repository.
CCRP research partners can be identified by their exclusive use of the Colouring Cities logo, and their inclusion on this page, on the Alan Turing Institute CCRP webpage. No other applications of Colouring Cities code, interface design or logo are endorsed by the Alan Turing Institute. CCRP resources provided by Turing and are listed below. See here for CCRP Protocols, which academic partners sign up to, and co-develop-
CCRP Resources
Resources provided by the Alan Turing Institute for CCRP partners - in addition to the Colouring London working prototype, core open-source code and the open manual which are accessible to all - are as follows:
- Use of the Colouring Cities Research Programme logo;
- Inclusion on the Alan Turing Institute website and the CCRP Open Manual;
- Free use of the Colouring Cities domain name;
- Dedicated partner page on the Colouring Cities Open Manual with editing rights;
- Access to online CCRP PI and engineering meetings managed by The Alan Turing Institute (see meeting programme below);
- Software engineering guidance for research software engineering teams for demo platform development;
- Help-in-kind support for funding applications which relate to CCRP platform setup;
- Opportunities to co-work on platform code and share engineering expertise;
- Opportunities to co-work on content and interface design and share research and stakeholder expertise;
- Opportunities to co-work on additional platform tools as well as animations and simulations of data and 3D/4D open models;
- Opportunities to co-work work on data analysis across countries and to experiment with AI and machine learning approaches;
- Opportunities to co-work on research papers;
- Opportunities for joint publicity;
- Opportunities to co-work on international funding bids.
CCRP Meeting dates 2023
Meeting dates for 2022 are as follows. Separate 1 hour meetings are held for Colour Cities leads/Principal investigators (PIs), and for software engineering teams, approximately every 8 weeks. Longer meetings will be held twice a year for CCRP members, from 2023, to which guest speakers will also invited.
Scheduled meeting dates 2023:
| Date | Time | Audience |
|---|---|---|
| 30 March | 7-8am GMT | PIs |
Previous: 2022
| Date | Time | Audience |
|---|---|---|
| 20 April | 7-8am GMT | Principal and Co-investigators |
| 18 May | 7-8am GMT | Software Engineers |
| 22 June | 7-8am GMT | Principal and Co-investigators |
| 10 August | 7-8am GMT | Principal and Co-investigators |
| 7 September | 7-8am GMT | Software Engineers |
| 5 October | 7-8am GMT | Principal and Co-investigators |
| 6 December | 7-8am GMT | Principal and Co-investigators |