Thrust 3: DCPR and Data Privacy

A Common Property Resource (CPR) is a collectively managed resource, where there is a set of agreements on the use of the resource and a commitment by users to being a community of respectful stewards. Successful common property resource management regimes share eight common design principles. The most important ones for this project are

1. clearly defined boundaries of what is in and what is out,
2. appropriateness or congruence between rules of use and local needs,
3. the ability to engage in collective decision-making,
4. monitoring of how the CPR is being utilized and
5. mechanisms for enforcement of rules and dealing with conflict and misuse.

In this project, we plan to build a Digital Common Property Resource (DCPR) that will store collected data relevant to SLR and its impacts in Tampa Bay. DCPR will be hosted at the servers of USF Library. We will collect community-related data from various data sources such as corporate stakeholders (e.g., members of the Urban Land Institute, S&ME Inc., Museum of Science and Industry), environmental stakeholders (e.g., Audubon Society, Water Institute, Marine Exploration Center), government stakeholders (e.g., Hillsborough County Planning Commission, City of Dunedin). Collected data will be used to develop computational scenario planning models (see Thrust 1) and visualization tools (see Thrust 2).

We aim to allow other researchers and data analysts to utilize the data for research purposes by protecting the privacy of personal information of individuals that data may contain. Therefore, we plan to develop privacy-preserving solutions to allow for data analytics on the collected community-related data without violating the privacy of the individuals whose data is included in the database.