At Urbanixm we harvest documents from the web and extract and curate information about the implementation and impact or urban policy and interventions. In order to create a proof-of-concept for the curated knowledge-base we developed a WordPress plugin that provides widgets for interacting with the information. The widgets are written in React.js and utilizes Leaflet for mapping geographic information.
Urbanixm
Urbanixm is an urban knowledge discovery engine where the goal is to organize the global information about the impact of urban policy and interventions.
We use a web-crawler for harvesting content about urbanism. The web-pages are passed through an automated content curation pipeline where we extract relevant text snippets from the pages and annotate them with relevant metadata, such as, which urbanism topics are discussed, whether the text describes a policy implementation or the impact or infrastructure, etc. Finally we have a front-end system to browse the annotated content.
Urbanixm Maps
Urbanixm Maps take as input a summary of an urbanism topic and how it is manifested in different places across the globe, and makes the information browseable on a world map.
Urbanixm Charts
Urbanixm Carts is a widget for displaying various data charts to support Urbanixm Stories.
Techology
React.js, Leaflet, JavaScript, WordPress